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Oct 2016
a brief overview:

so far, in our voyage
we have stayed home
call it a parallel apocrypha
omitting all and accepting none
I own nothing

pronouns are a formality:

a Roman Catholic, a Greek from Rheims
a girl and a boy
a sister and her friends
a wife and teacher
a nun who’s a mother

chronology of implications:

first day, second month
prudes scare me
how much should a man give up
when his wife leaves him

she’s not really gone
it’s just something to think about
or ignore
or laugh about

you decide

the one person who’s bereavement
you have mulled over and over until one day
you find out the person has been going around saying your name

I call that a preferential loss
I call that, as an if
Hmm:  I would like to create a string of words using, as the expression, inside as an if statement.

if (string) {

The string will have to act as a "formal fallacy". Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Me:  There is no equivalent of, as an if, statement. There is probably a way to get to end result, but I would need more info on what you are trying to do.

Hmm:  I have restructured my poem so that I will be able to avoid this type of problem.

Me:  if only....
jiminy-littly
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jiminy-littly  M/NYC
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   Mary Winslow
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