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James Floss
60/M/Freshwater, CA
My degrees are in theatre; I've acted and directed on the far north coast of California extensively. I teach Oral Interpretation and Public Speaking at Humboldt State University.
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James Floss
James Floss
Oct 2018
SWARM
A correlation of crows
Coruscate above
Rippling and shimmering
High in the sky
Potent portents present
As options multiply
Diverge, converge, divide
With diminishing reply
Phosphorescent swirls
In an opalescent sea
Wondrous whirligigs
Of knowing and being
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James Floss
Oct 2018
LIVING
We are all precancerous
Just some degree away
The red spot on your nose
The dubious polyps removed
The tang of iron on your tongue
The itch that can’t be scratched
The trick to being precancerous
Is to be your most precocious
Live large; be positive; do
All you can in time allotted
Scuba dive; skydive
Learn how to tango
Follow your bliss
Treat this as this
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James Floss
Oct 2018
SOCIAL STUDIES
I am going to make mistakes
And probably break things
In my attempt to speak the truth
You will like or unlike me
You might even un-Friend me
REPLY: "Oh! No! Dear me! No!”
It won’t stop my postings
In this pre-apocalyptic world
Peeling the opinion onion
Seems the right thing to do
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James Floss
Oct 2018
BUMP
We live in different belief worlds
But thankfully they intersect
Gravity takes us one way but
With thoughts we reconnect
What I mean might seem a
Mean meme, in retrospect
I don’t like who you like;
I mean no disrespect
But his a-hole vitriol makes
Our country wrecked
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James Floss
Oct 2018
DESCARTES’ THRONE
I’m here because I stink
I’m here because I drink
I **** because I eat
I wizz what that I drank
Stuff in; stuff out
Ergo, I’m alive, I think
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James Floss
Oct 2018
CIVILIZATION
Bonobos chimps
Live conflict free
Through mutual ***
Dogs make pacts
Through playing games
With instagram smells
Cats connect
Gland to gland
Cheek to cheek
Worker bees
Leaf-cutter ants
Naked mole rats
Honey hive
Tropical trail
Tunnel twists
We obstruct
We confound
We distract each other
Our entropy portrait shows
The not civilized need
To nurture our nature
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James Floss
Oct 2018
TRANSLATION
Everything I know
I am learning now, the
What why where and how
Subcutaneous instantaneous
Transliteration transcriptions
The you you don’t know undertow
Burbles beneath the underflow
Below Babel is the true power
Speaking truth beyond tower
Is the way to flow
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