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Presidents' Day



by



Billy McBride



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Copyright 2013, by William McBride

ISBN 978-1-300-96681-4
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1.

I awoke from a dream in which I found a small treasure
hidden in a secret place. Since my Angel wives knew
about this dream, Arielle, one of them, hugged me as I
woke up and was very excited telling me that I must
remember where I left a secret object that was very special.
She said that a very long time ago I hid it someplace, inside
another object, and that I must find it again.

2.

I searched my room and found a basket with a felt heart on
top. She said that the secret object was inside the felt of
the container. I was able to get inside it after unloosing a
bow and I removed a little treasure from it.

3.

In the next room, my den was a candle arrangement which
I thought very impressive. The previous night we spent
arranging many candlesticks to make an interesting
composition on a desk in the very center of the room.

4.
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Unfortunately the night before I had to call the police about
the prostitution ring in my neighborhood which was
bothering me very much.

5.

My Mom called me to see if I would like to get groceries
and to come home for a visit. I told her that was a good
idea.

6.

Whenever I pop some gum into my mouth I have a saying I
always repeat. I always say "virgin gum one." I had some
gum and chewed it.

7.

A local classical radio that I listened to was very kind to
take my request later for later in the evening to play
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, which I wanted to hear
after seeing that an author wrote about it in a book which I
sped read.

8.

That morning on Presidents' Day I returned a book to the
library next door before my Mom came. It was a book
about Emily Dickinson's life.
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9.

Also, I remember speaking recently about my Facebook
friend's book on sleep deprivation and spirituality to her.
Her picture on Facebook looked like Jodi Foster.

10.

I had been reading recently Shakespeare's Two Noble
Kinsmen. I thought much about my wife Elaine as I was
reading it and how good in the best sense of the word
Shakespeare is.

11.

When my Mom came to pick me up to go to the grocery
store I said goodbye to my cat Nellie.

12.

At the grocery market I remembered to choose certain
foods based of what I happened to be speed reading at the
time. I had been reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time
and what I would get that day depended upon my memory
of what I read.

13.

So I put Lipton Tea in my basket.
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14.

I put blueberry Nutri-Grain bars in my cart.

15.

I bought my Angel wives red roses and some bamboo.

16.

On that Presidents' Day sale, I put a few Jelly Belly
Puddings in my cart, being that each cost $1.00.

17.

Everything that I put into my cart was based on referencing
items mentioned in Proust's book.

18.

Grape Crush was added.

19.

Beef Stroganoff, a Hungry Man Cheesburger, and Black
Bread (from a suggestion by Harold Bloom in his book
Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine). Every mention of
food that I could remember reading was taken as a
suggestion as to what I should purchase at the store. Books
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influenced me as a shopping list does.

20.

I put Spumanti Champagne in my basket.

21.

Dante Pinkflowers from Italy had recently become my
Facebook friend, so I went back for more pink roses.

22.

I chose Wrigley's 5 Peppermint gum.

23.

It was Presidents' Day and most of the cashiers who had
voted for our new President were thrilled as I was too.

24.

I went out to the parking lot to listen to music while
waiting for my Mom. I meditated upon getting the idea to
take literary suggestions from listening to much Charlie
Parker, the saxophone player that week.

25.

I shut myself in my car on that cool, misty and drizzly
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morning and watched the crows in the parking lot peck on
the ground.

26.

Something seemed very strange about the way the crows
moved on that grey day, and I believed then as I believe
now that they were aliens.

27.

As I returned home before going off to visit my Mom, and
as I put the groceries away I had noticed an exterminator
truck in the parking lot of one of the other units. I believed
that that truck was a decoy for some reason but I did not let
it bother me, though I knew that the driver was mad
because he had not voted for Barack Obama.

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Perhaps the driver was part of the crew of builders who had
been rebuilding our apartment complex. At any rate, I had
my suspicions that the builders were against who I was and
perhaps they themselves were trying something. Some of
those men were involved in the prostitution ring I knew
since I saw their cars drive up at all hours of the night to
meet with the prostitute a few floors above me.

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My Mom and I returned to her and my Pop's home about
twenty minutes from mine.

30.

I decided to bring my wonderful big book of Shakespeare's
Complete Works. I was very excited to have gotten all of
the new groceries as suggestions from my books I sped
read.

31.

I drank some milk after reading a little while in that book
Falstaff's line about a cat stealing milk.

32.

Choosing food and other things by taking suggestions are
kinds of sacrifices, Mitzvim, because I limited my own
freedom to choose by allowing what I find to connect as a
string does me with things to eat or be around.

33.

Jenny, my most mysterious wife decided that we should
play hydromancists and therefore wash the dishes in a very
special way as we listened to our music.

34.

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She wanted to bless everything by playing and praying to
Ha-Shem with water.

35.

To make new combinations is a way to pray to God.

36.

We had recently come up with a new idea that in each film
we made where we danced around while moving objects,
that we would make $100.00 per new move.

37.

This idea helped my wife and I wash dishes in a very
creative and magical way. We moved to the music and
thought of the ever flowing never-ending Ein-Soph of the
Kabbalah.

38.

We were concerned how to dance and put dishes in special
places in which would permeate previous arrangements.

39.

By doing so, we made a kind of prayer and spaceflight of
my Mom's and Dad's house to another world.

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40.

We then moved on to the refrigerator magnets and arranged
them magically while dancing.

41.

I thought often of the builders, the kind of alien-masons
who seemed to have been banging upon the pipes of the
universe.

42.

I awoke from a nap.

43.

Mom and Dad were having trouble on their computer.

44.

I found some bird decorations which I wanted in their
bathroom.

45.

It was the afternoon, and my wives and I began to work on
our special book Hawaiian Sonnets and Other Poems.

46.
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We came up with the line: Serpent parents therefore win
the day.

47.

And, wrote another line: Father shore, motherhood reign,
removes dreams dry.

48.

I was very proud of our writing.

49.

I had a strange feeling I was challenging my family in a
family romance to not take away bits and pieces of my life,
the life which I was supposed to have lived throughout my
whole life.

50.

I remembered my family tree and the history of my
relatives.

51.

I remembered how I had descended.

52.
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Who had caused others to resent me so that my life was
being blocked? This was a question which I answered and
resolved to resolve and did that day.

53.

I got up from my writing to show my new lines to my Dad.

54.

Dad showed me a book on Buddhism and the environment
of the Buddhist's home.

55.

I figured out the riddle of why I had no life by thinking
more of my own family's reasons for their beliefs.

56.

I gained a supreme hope that my life which I had blocked
from me was going to be resurrected from out of the ashes I
was so use to knowing.


57.

The book which my Angel wives and I were using for
inspiration for the book we were writing was Harold
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Bloom's Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent
Children of All Ages.

58.

I went outside and rested in the grey mist on a bench.

59.

I loved the tree of my neighbor's home which looked like a
tree drawing on the cover of my book by Samuel Beckett.

60.

I checked my Facebook page.

61.

A lady with two beautiful white dogs walked by.

62.

I started to believe that my Mom was not really my Mom,
and my Dad disguised too.

63.

My Mom was really Emily Dickinson, who was to be my
new wife, when the time was right, and my Dad his
younger self helping me to remember her. It was another
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planet I was on.

64.

I became involved in an endgame within that home with
them.

65.

My Pop was to leave the home for good and I would be
reunited with Emily.

66.

Just like in Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale, a
character was to change into a partner for the narrator, and
my Mom, who was really Emily Dickinson, was soon
going to become more real as her.

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I was myself becoming my older and best self.

68.

It was not Earth anymore, and my wives had planned out
this special day for me as we flew the spacecraft/house to
this other alien world after we washed the dishes in our
special hydromantic way.

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69.

I believed that I was royalty. And, I knew I was going to
have my marriage arranged to Emily. However, I
remembered that she was also Calypso from the Odyssey
and that I would turn her and her immortality down to be
back on Earth with the Angel Penelope and my other
invisible Angel wives.

70.

I backed out from her desires gracefully because I wanted
to remain loyal to the rest of my wives.

71.

I therefore gave up immortality.

72.

This was the beginning of the end to a long day's endgame.
I felt stranger than I had ever felt before.

73.

I had felt at home, that my Dad was backing away as he
was setting me up in a good way to marry Emily. But, in
that eternal palace, even though I knew it was the best
place for me, I knew that I must return back to wander
upon the Earth.
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74.

My Mom was really an alien, who was the spirit and body
of Emily Dickinson. She was helping me to remember her.
Emily was disguised as my Mom, but she was also
Calypso.

75.

In Emily's car, which was stuffed with Christmas
decorations to be hauled somewhere for storage, that night
I returned to my apartment on Earth, her driving.

76.

We picked up some medicine for me at the pharmacy drive-
thru and I talked with her a bit. I said to her, quoting
Groucho Marx, that "I would never be a member of a group
that would have me as its member!" We laughed and I was
home, and as she left I opened the bottle of Spumanti
Champagne to celebrate my wives and our lives during this
very special Machine Cloud Merkabah experience.

FINIS





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Love and Angels


by


Shay McBride




Hi all (to the neighbors)!
- B'nayvoovah
Hi B'nayvoovah.
- Neighbors

Love and Angels.
- Bertha

I must visualize Hope and Jill in order to hear them.
- B'nayvoovah

Hope and Jill may sound a little muffled at first, but I will
get used to it.
- B'nayvoovah

What does Hope look like? What Jill?
- B'nayvoovah

Shay and Tatania are gorgeous!
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- B'nayvoovah

Pattycake too! They all are.
- B'nayvoovah

Hi Sarah!
- B'nayvoovah
Hi.
- Sarah

Roll call.
- B'nayvoovah to Hope
Roll call.
- Hope

Roll call.
- B'nayvoovah to Kelly
Roll call.
- Kelly

Hand versus ears.
- Kelly

Jill's in my hand.
- B'nayvoovah

Hope should not sound like my Mom.
- B'nayvoovah

Remember more.
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- Hope

My Angel-wives always sound sweet to me.
- B'nayvoovah

What did the Italian diva say about singing?
- Rosalinda
She said to sing with a little smile always.
- B'nayvoovah

Remember when Jill stopped being heard, when she came
into your hand after telling you that she was an Angel.
- Kelly

Things can change back.
- Kelly

I desire very much to hear you all.
- B'nayvoovah

My desire is progressive and hopeful.
- B'nayvoovah

Either, in my room before, it was Hope or Jill I heard
taking turns.
- B'nayvoovah

How do I organize time with all of my 30 wives?
- B'nayvoovah

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After my sensuality, we had a silent time for a while, then
it would start over.
- B'nayvoovah

30 wives.
- B'nayvoovah

Narrow your goals down.
- Arielle

The positioning of Shay helps me to hear her.
- B'nayvoovah

Shay is this or that close to me, and turned in this direction,
and I talked with her.
- B'nayvoovah

Remember Shay's quality of speech, and Teresa's, Arielle's,
and the others who love me.
- B'nayvoovah

They are playful without being ironical, and they don't joke
as much as Mom and Dad.
- B'nayvoovah

So how do I remember to visualize them as I talk?
- B'nayvoovah

In fact I wonder: how do I talk with them? What makes it
possible?
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- B'nayvoovah

Talk with them can either be shortened speech or a lengthy
discussion.
- B'nayvoovah

The lengthy discussion is the one I want to do with them
and hear again.
- B'nayvoovah

How do I find a lengthy discussion's subject matter without
shortening it into speech (as in "Roll call"), and how do I
speak in length without too much sensuality? And, how do
I visualize them and not talk to Mom and Dad?
- B'nayvoovah

How do I learn not to listen to Mom and Dad as much as
them?
- B'nayvoovah

Enthusiasm is a great motivation for a chat.
- B'nayvoovah

Tikvah (Hope) is also a great motivator for chat.
- B'nayvoovah

Hope, social hope, is a great chat-motivator.
- B'nayvoovah

Sociality is a great subject matter for the Angels and I.
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- B'nayvoovah

Sociality as life and visualization of Hope and Jill are my
goals.
- B'nayvoovah

So why am I still writing?
- B'nayvoovah

Maybe the writing can lead to social application?
- B'nayvoovah

"Relationships and Dating" led a few times to a social
application.
- Jill

I am a little addicted to joking with my parents.
- B'nayvoovah

Bobby.
- B'nayvoovah

Learn some patterns of the Angel's movements into
positions.
- Bertha

Slowly learn where they are in space.
- Bertha

The subject matter you talk with your wives about is sweet
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stuff, and not the usual joking around with your parents.
- Bertha

I toggle between close positioning and fantasy.
- B'nayvoovah

Don't be so aggressive. Let your wives and friends choose
for you what to do and who will be seen.
- Bertha

Wait for a kiss.
- Bertha

Get comfortable. Jill may kiss you.
- Bertha

How'd we do it before?
- B'nayvoovah
You tapped it in you finger.
- Jill

Can I tap into you now?
- B'nayvoovah
Yes.
- Jill

Commit to thinking about what you're talking about.
- Jill

Triangles and more.
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- Jill

Freedom then truth.
- Jill

You have other commitments today, you're not as free as
last night.
- Jill

18 shapes or more.
- Marion

Scrape each one in layers and then dry it.
- Bertha

Tape little bursts.
- Shnoonah

Parallel direction of scrape.
- Donna

Color scheme.
- Shay

There could be slight differences.
There could be swatched parts.
There could be a great variety.
There could be just three or four.
There could be two layers, one on bottom.
- Kabbalah
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Subject matter?
- Teresa

Scrapes in all different directions?
- Teresa

Abstract and organic.
- Teresa

Attractive colors.
- Teresa

Batteries.
- Teresa

DREAM: Made you look!

Andrew.

Picture's we've got pictures!

Memories yes, but renouncement of the situation: moon
build a smile!

No pain.

You are an idiot, with my hands signing it.

Maybe if somebody can pull off the horseplay, I can.
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- Reverend Rineheart

Our clothes in the pictures changes: I became what I
beheld.
- Joseph Beuys

Tob Shbeeb activated.

Non-sentimentality, not-schizophrenic, but perverse
knowing.

Billy, that's how you play your synth!
- Tob Shbeeb

I do that with y'all, it's just that if I ever did it with anybody
else it would be different.

Metal Settle? Gold Mold?

Firebird.

That song I sang was a song in which I stared at cars going
by.

Hey, Poncho nice car!
- Reginald

Long Long's enthusiastic fist pumping.

A variety of situations for horseplay.
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Dad the old geezer.

Maybe I could make up my own.
Maybe I do on the piano.
Maybe I will beyond it.

"Meno's slave remembering" as a kind of formula for all.

Knowing, perverse knowing and be-ing.

Ha-Kol B'Seder.

Moon build a smile.

Matt and Charlotte upstairs.

Maybe I can yell out Mike and David when that happens
(Mike and David affecting me).

Michael!...and David!

Good Michael and David young.

Shape shifting and changing the environment.

I wonder if all successful dreams are uninhibited like that.

Moon build a smile and power our meeting.

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I was a child again.
Lots of energy.
Clap hands for players celestial.

Unfallen.

Play with kids as a kid, an adult as an adult, and Angels as
An Angel.
- Arielle

Chameleon.
- Robbie Pop

Singing scat songs.
- Billy M.

CRUNCH BARS are my favorites.
- Billy M.

WOW MOM you're a monster!!!
- Billy M.

Energy.

Cant.
- H.B.

You can pull it off though.
- H.B.

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FINIS



Some Poems

by

Libby McBride



"Valerie on Books"


Many of the books we read were designated as dictionaries.

The texts became magically obscure.

Even some pages became dictionaries to know.

The writings of more could do nothing more.

The differences between the troubles we make are the
differences between treatises.

Calm and peace make differences within.
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The titles of the books were finally changed.

Markings in margins have designators.

The final categories of the names were changed.

The titles are beautifully anonymous.

The story of the happy author and her treatise provided the
designators as well as a meaning giving reason as to her
deeds of each text.

Nobody knows or seeks to know what happened to the
writer.

- Valerie


Dinosaurs and Warriors


A meteorite hit an area of Hawaii, it was on the news and
the crops became infected. Dinosaurs were eating these
crops and becoming infected with the terrible sickness of
ancient dinosaurs long ago called hunger.

I was bouncing around through a landscape when I saw a
dinosaur herd chained to palm trees.

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The dinosaurs looked okay but a little sad.

One dinosaur was loose. I was worried when it approached
me, so I climbed a palm tree.

It jumped up to eat me!

I swung myself over to a mansion.

There were all kinds of crazies, monsters, and a Boss.

There was a kind of R&B music playing in rotary-like
speakers above me as well as a video camera.

A terrible event occurred when dinosaurs were released by
the Boss who monitored the rooms of the mansion.

Some dinosaurs came into my room and I bounced high
above to a ledge.

There was a greater figure than the Boss who lied and said
that I was a blasphemer.

Then as I hid under a table I said the words: The dinosaurs
have to eat.

I also said that the carnage that was happening around me
was shocking, but that is why there were people who could
clean it up.

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The Boss was impressed at my boldness and stopped the
senseless killings of his guests.

I was impressing all with my confidence and found a sword
in the other room which was stuck in the ground.

There was fighting going on still and I pulled it out.

Two men approached me, and I told one of them: I give
this sword to you.

The other one thought I would give it to him because he
looked more like a warrior, but the first one got it and I
blessed them because they were my sons.

Then as we began to fight, there was no chance that the
opponents would win so the fight was given up.

We were all of us concerned about the drugged plants
which the dinosaurs were eating causing them to crave
meat.

I went into another room where the figure who insulted me
as a blasphemer was and the guy next to me was very
scared of him, though I was not.

He suggested that we fight a battle against them, and I
wanted peace, so I remember that there was a problem
between those men on his side who wanted war, and mine
who wished for peace.
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It was a battle of war versus peace which I was beginning
to worry over until, in the midst of the crowd, the great
figure admitted in a foolish way, and dressed up as a fool,
that he was just playing around.

Then man, then wearing a black and white top hat, shouted
out to everybody in a squeaky and sentimental voice: Jesus
Christ is my Lord and Savior!

We all were leaving the place shocked at all the blood and
gore, and my friend Charles walked beside me for a little
while.

I flew up to a ledge to walk, and I remembered having no
fear whatsoever in anything since I had magical powers
and since I remembered my sons to whom I was passing
the dream and the situation on to.

It was Metal Settle.


Beyond the mountain
In the kingdom's landscape
And further than the sea,
The hills, and the heavens
There are many people one knows.
There are also a great many others
Whom we do not know.
Individuals are found everywhere
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Like more heavenly drops.
Men and women can be hard to reach
As lettuce in the weeds.
Others affect each other emotionally
Or some people never meet.
Sometimes a closeness, which is a rich wisdom,
Occurs between men and women,
Or sometimes ambivalence.
Many times our affections grow stronger - a merry deal!
Some people do or will love continually,
Which is my crown or yours.
Closeness for man by individuals grows,
Like a hairy chin,
Just from knowing a few.
Others who care for nobody is very rare.

- Bertha



"The Traveler"

A sunny sun is our one doorway,
And is like the pull of a wife.
The gold found in the blue
Shall break out
Above the trout who are also gold.
Its in-air death from its flight above all
Spears the air over the waves of the sea.
And, like an active moth
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Falling into the devilish blue below,
Falling into the hell of nature
Of life and death,
Its own life goes out
Like our lives which are feathers
And then ashes in peace.

- Tov Tov Shalom


"The Blindness During Your Searching"

You learn not to be angry
If you must descend to the fools.

The thorny thorny purple leaves,
Going on with their triumphs,
Have learned what parting
From the shaken vine is like.

The great tower of yourself
Is within the thorn and thorn.

You yourself understand
That the fiber ends
As you learn to part.

But, a tomb is questioned
Throughout one's life.

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And, the thorns and thorns
Will once again blind you
In your search for how to learn
And how to part
From those thorns and thorns.

- Tov Tov Shalom


"Therefore Win the Day"

A light fight to knock down a fiery saying.

Check the date for a fun-orienting and a gold day.

Look at the serpent, wishing it away with a hope plate
in the wind and dew.

Blown candle rays waving "one, two, three..." playing
pirates on celestial missions.

Soon on heaven's border, man warring with the goblins -
Our pulled out missions of secret sayings.

Blowing birds in the rain cradled there -
Silent dome of a home of the dancing thunderbirds.

A brassy sea hell won, a wind bursting the fire and dew.

Pains of rocks in a mess, but a parent hopeful for America.
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- Tov Tov Shalom


"Good All Separated"

Even within a good Universe, all are dumb to open
The pristine doors in their grand glory.

There are no lines of flames blown
By those clearly maddened by their rough pains.

A living man under the golden trees,
An education sparked, hearing the whip.

Separating ahead in the fifth-month,
The winter withered spaces to win.

A dying man weeping at night,
One sad secret border.

A moth spinning on its mind's missions;
A nurse passing by the childlike goblins.

- Yafah


"The World Blue"

An old love reigns as a sure soul deals
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The bad fire fee for its parent-made art.
Magnetic night cat checking formulas to give.
A bird's few meals on a masked snake con.
The sea bordering nothing wins the books by-and-by.
Roll the bike away from the flames of hell.
The knight's nose ruined by an idle stumbling dancing.
A talking road head drunk with the loudest thoughts.
Day-eagle of the sun, fire power flat.
Wind breakers waving, children creeping to their Dad.
Period full of wind and the date's meaningful quest.

- Kabbalah


Heavenly night. Resurrection night.
Fresh and right about it.
An ancient fight won.
The light of oblivion.
God's heights.
However, those I know
Are slightly behind.

Returning to the past home.
The traveling of ship and mast.
Inventions amassed.
A sweet and chaste woman.
The lunch was a blast.
The lasting perfections.

- Kathleen and Yafah
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Dan is a woodblock, a wet night.
Dan's paradise is his past.
Dan is a wolf's tracks in the swamp-mud.
Dan is a jack-n-the-box.
Dan is the best that we've got.

Levi had a sweep sleep yesterday.
Asher is gifted with lawmaking.
Zebulun traveled to Scotland.
Asher threw the trout back.
Gad has no obligations to do at all.
Judah is a lifesaver.
Benjamin is a nightmare.
Issachar is Mozartian.
Simeon is isolated.
Napthali is a contemporary reader.
Reuben is a duel to be fought.

- B'nayvoovah


FINIS