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WIDGETS AND GADGETS
Widgets and gadgets
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gizmos and apps.
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Whatever happened
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to cause the collapse
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of my simple wo
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IF YOU HAVE TIME
by Nanao Sakaki
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If you have time to chatter
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Read books
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If you have time to read
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Walk into mo
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Pig Latin
There is a tendency among
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those poets who may be very young
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frequently to put in verse
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those f
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IDLE THOUGHTS IN A HOSPITAL WAITING ROOM
Sitting and waiting in the hospital reception area,
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gave me time to think; and feeling even warier
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NUMINOSITY (OR HUMANISM OWES A DEBT TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT)
Is humanism Utopian?
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You really have to think about it.
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Or is it rather more dystopian?
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No, th
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ORGASM
My brain too long has had the sound
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and shape and nerve
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of breathless requiems.
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I want to feel
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CANCER'S A FUNNY THING
by J.B.S. Haldane
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I wish I had the voice of Homer
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To sing of rectal carcinoma,
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Which kills a l
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The Magical Land
There is country that is far away
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In time and space no more than shadow play;
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A land designed to
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MOISHE BEN SHLOMO
Being a parody of Abou ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt
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(See glossary below for translation of italicized w
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DOH LAH REH DOH
Poorly equipped,
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Painfully whipped.
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A threadbare Abyssinian
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Did shuffle on
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With all hope gon
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