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A problem shared is
not a problem halved.

It is multiplied by as
many as were listening.

The less people know
about you the better.

They say we are only
as sick as our secrets.

Nobody wants to listen
to war stories but AA.

That is not Agony Aunt
it's Alcoholics Anonymous.

What about teetotallers
they got issues to deal with.

Priests are disappearing
no more three Hail Marys.

Learn to forgive yourself
or live with your demons.
How does one irrigate
words after their seeds
sprouted and you want
to turn them into poetry.

More to the point, is, how
does one ever manage to
illuminate the page, when
writing from a dark place.
Donny Triumphant
Thick Talk has been
Reinstated free speech
Is being deliberated.

(‘< twitter twitter 50
Stars Trump he Stripes
For freedom.

Genocide Joe he had
To go to the land of
Twee and tweedledum.
The cursor flashed intermittently on the top left
corner of the blank page. Before I touched the
keyboard, I paused for a moment and tried to
imagine something other than an invitation to write. If it was a monitor, I thought, this heartbeat
is surely not resting and so, I preceded to take my
pulse. Well, we are not in sync. What if this symbol is for the deaf? An alert, a warning. It does have a resemblance to a hazard indicator of a car
broken down on the lay by. Have you noticed that when one bulb malfunctions the other picks up the slack and flashes faster! It could actually be
the microwave advising me that I didn’t hear Pavlov’s bell and my Cornish Pasty is cooked!
My cordless drill charger has a red and green light
to differentiate between the current status of the battery. The dashboard of the car has a host of
methods to attract our attention, not always red
either, add blue add blue add blue add blue add
.           Ombré is a shadow
        and Somber it is solemn
      meant Melanie’s melanoma
required a cap stone on the column
Dr. Melfie said that
I must be protected
when having ***
with a stranger.
(Friends can be
trusted it seems)
           So
I went to a tattooist
and had my phallus
branded with the
copyright symbol.
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