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When my father was a boy, in the County of Tyrone, His father owned a quarry and he worked the fields of stone. My Dad grew lean and hard As he excavated stone Yielding granite for stone carvers And gravel aggregate for roads. His hands grew strong and powerful He had a muscular physique He couldn’t read or write But no one dared to call him weak. When my Dad was in his twenties He was working in the mines Excavating British coal at Newcastle on Tynes. Later on in life He was living in the “States” Working in landscaping on large Gold Coast estates. When my Dad was in his fifties He was digging graves by hand. Once again in Fields of stone a hard working Union man. Each morning he’d rise early And walk two miles to work He never had an office And he’d never be a clerk. He rose to be a foreman Working in that field of stone And when darkness overtook him It became his earthly home. Now when I go visit him I kneel and pray alone Beside his Celtic Cross standing in the field of stones.
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Nov 9, 2011
Nov 9, 2011 at 4:11 PM UTC
Fields of Stone
What is death by chocolate? Chocolate you must accumulate, To amass your aggregate, Are Mars Bars better than a man? For chocolate you reach your hand, Is there enough chocolate in the land? Then there's housework in the world, Best keep your strength up, girls, Give those chocolate twirls a whirl, A moment on our lips, A lifetime on the hips, Just call us cuddly from now on! As on chocolate we ponder on, Death by chocolate, satisfaction!
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May 11, 2016
May 11, 2016 at 2:47 AM UTC
DEATH BY CHOCOLATE!
C'mon out to the rattled caves the deep-sea malaise rested in the grey metamorphs of an ancient coastal chain Where Sisyphean slips of tectonic rifts pull the molding clay like play-dough and old rock that turns anew churned into great catacomb stele Babylonian towers far away from the great Mesopotamic interstate Surrounded by the immumerous trees the military sharpness of their pine quills writing their mark in the dirt for a hundred turns or so only to be rearranged into the great intercontinental soil Truly multisolipsistual And on the aggregate held open the mists of the vast expanse of ocean beyond L.A and stole the fruits of the tiny parceled condominium rainwater from distance far away angry men shouting-- "Give us back our life blood, GOD **** YOU!" Filling the tanks of their fleshomobiles running around and sweating it out trading it for cloth and wiping their brow on brown shirts perturbed and disobeyed But that great man with the chin muscatche brought the rough riders out of their dome into the frontier, riding trains Off they go! Seeking paradise in the sands and the trees and the coastal breeze dreaming of a world owned and seen by the world by man and by all these things It would be grand But that rock has been seen before in Luarentian islands long ago or perhaps a great FUJI-SAN of the west coast worshiped by critters and dinosaurs You are late to the game, sweet dreamers, you! These monuments give to honor due not you, no sir did you build these things? did you mold these things with the patience of a father with the consequentiality of the womb and a motherly affection for all things true? the gift is for you, remember your father's gifts sweet princes of the earth because they will outlive you. And I walk along the stream stepping upon these little bits of Yosemite Pulverized mountain rocks Renal Stones of the diseased to which the water flushed out deeply and cured the grey things from all that left them displeased hoping for more than just selfies and sticking it to god's face laughing at half-dome climbing it and getting the better of ourselves Believing we have achieved bliss When in reality, there is nothing to this which we can reach.
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Aug 19, 2018
Aug 19, 2018 at 5:19 PM UTC
Yosemite Spills
C'mon out to the rattled caves the deep-sea malaise rested in the grey metamorphs of an ancient coastal chain Where Sisyphean slips of tectonic rifts pull the molding clay like play-dough and old rock that turns anew churned into great catacomb stele Babylonian towers far away from the great Mesopotamic interstate Surrounded by the immumerous trees the military sharpness of their pine quills writing their mark in the dirt for a hundred turns or so only to be rearranged into the great intercontinental soil Truly multisolipsistual And on the aggregate held open the mists of the vast expanse of ocean beyond L.A and stole the fruits of the tiny parceled condominium rainwater from distance far away angry men shouting-- "Give us back our life blood, GOD **** YOU!" Filling the tanks of their fleshomobiles running around and sweating it out trading it for cloth and wiping their brow on brown shirts perturbed and disobeyed But that great man with the chin muscatche brought the rough riders out of their dome into the frontier, riding trains Off they go! Seeking paradise in the sands and the trees and the coastal breeze dreaming of a world owned and seen by the world by man and by all these things It would be grand But that rock has been seen before in Luarentian islands long ago or perhaps a great FUJI-SAN of the west coast worshiped by critters and dinosaurs You are late to the game, sweet dreamers, you! These monuments give to honor due not you, no sir did you build these things? did you mold these things with the patience of a father with the consequentiality of the womb and a motherly affection for all things true? the gift is for you, remember your father's gifts sweet princes of the earth because they will outlive you. And I walk along the stream stepping upon these little bits of Yosemite Pulverized mountain rocks Renal Stones of the diseased to which the water flushed out deeply and cured the grey things from all that left them displeased hoping for more than just selfies and sticking it to god's face laughing at half-dome climbing it and getting the better of ourselves Believing we have achieved bliss When in reality, there is nothing to this which we can reach.
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What is this wall That keeps us in Over each other, we trip; we fall We are like fish with no fins Head on we crash With fists we beat We hack and we slash Screaming, kicking with invisible feet Blocked we remain Let us flow Us you can't contain Let us go Strengthened with aggregate But held back by concrete Cerebral wall with no gate We're packed with angry grit You know we're here You feel us roiling You hear us clear Boiling and brewing We understand the reason You deem it necessary Thinking it would lessen Subdue the rage and fury Your illusion of control Of us, you'd pick the best Surely you're taking the toll Of being nothing but suppressed All of us, we are you We make you what you are From the subtlest cue To the high achieving star We are many but we are one Your thoughts and emotions We are your loaded gun We're the answer to false pretensions You can't have us dammed We've initiated a coup No...we'll not be ****** Too late...we've broken through
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Aug 15, 2014
Aug 15, 2014 at 11:29 PM UTC
Dammed
With Good Business brewed is Good Business told Confirmed the New Mentor who taught us well Such swig a Sterling Medicine behold But knowing our Skills his Avid Trust spell Forsought this Blue Trade our Clients rely Was that our Webbed Gifts can reciprocate That within those Months our Service apply To increase the Bank's volume aggregate Such now our Eagle wears; Tri-Coloured Schemes Weaved in pleats forth to Genious unique And if we can prove to maintain those Seams Will he be Proud of our Learning oblique. Once that's done, to the Pub he tips his Zest All the more content our Minds would not guess.
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Mar 13, 2013
Mar 13, 2013 at 2:29 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE: STEPHEN CADWALLADER
1243 Safe Despair it is that raves— Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal. Garrisoned no Soul can be In the Front of Trouble— Love is one, not aggregate— Nor is Dying double—
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Safe Despair it is that raves—
fell into a hole of myself-- i know too much a bag of cheetos in an ill-fitting suit runs the country - made the mistake of reading what it had to say awhile ago all in the stirring of a feather my ego, my ignorance smattering albiet aggressively in an annoying aggregate, dog-bark bird-squacking grating my effing ears these 7am mornings
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Mar 21, 2018
Mar 21, 2018 at 9:55 PM UTC
i annoy myself, ha ha ha
Everything: pronoun. a.) every thing of particular of an aggregate or total; all. This is what I’m told you are but I’ve never been one for deities. You hear my thoughts but command me to speak. You know my human ways but still expect to have me all to yourself. You’re jealous- a “jealous god” but I’m to believe you’re perfect? The book says your ways are higher but the coincidences and rules that surround your mystery just don’t add up enough for me. Enough: adverb a.) in a quantity or degree that answers a purpose or satisfies a need or desire; sufficiently. I have a desire to change, I have a desire to love, hell, I want a Ferrari! I don’t have those so are you really enough if I use the book definition? But, no, seriously, some people are starving while others cant stop killing or lying or stealing or hating. Are you enough for them too? Im still waiting, but we at least have that in common. They say you are too. “They” being the activists, the followers, “yours” and yet you’re still waiting for surrender. Surrender: verb a.) to yield to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress You want me ever so much -or so I’m told. When I want something I have to ask or initiate. Where are you? Are you planning on ever speaking to me or asking? Where is your humility to simply ask? Waiting for what you don’t ever request is more foolish than I ever assumed a deity of great power and might could be. You astound me for sure, but not in a good way. I thought the zealous screamed something about you being the definition of everything, but I don’t seem to be able to define you that way at all. I ask these questions innocently, yet still I hear no response. Did you perhaps, in your infinite wisdom create the world and forget to give yourself a voice?
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Feb 1, 2010
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:56 PM UTC
Definitions
Everything: pronoun. a.) every thing of particular of an aggregate or total; all. This is what I’m told you are but I’ve never been one for deities. You hear my thoughts but command me to speak. You know my human ways but still expect to have me all to yourself. You’re jealous- a “jealous god” but I’m to believe you’re perfect? The book says your ways are higher but the coincidences and rules that surround your mystery just don’t add up enough for me. Enough: adverb a.) in a quantity or degree that answers a purpose or satisfies a need or desire; sufficiently. I have a desire to change, I have a desire to love, hell, I want a Ferrari! I don’t have those so are you really enough if I use the book definition? But, no, seriously, some people are starving while others cant stop killing or lying or stealing or hating. Are you enough for them too? Im still waiting, but we at least have that in common. They say you are too. “They” being the activists, the followers, “yours” and yet you’re still waiting for surrender. Surrender: verb a.) to yield to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress You want me ever so much -or so I’m told. When I want something I have to ask or initiate. Where are you? Are you planning on ever speaking to me or asking? Where is your humility to simply ask? Waiting for what you don’t ever request is more foolish than I ever assumed a deity of great power and might could be. You astound me for sure, but not in a good way. I thought the zealous screamed something about you being the definition of everything, but I don’t seem to be able to define you that way at all. I ask these questions innocently, yet still I hear no response. Did you perhaps, in your infinite wisdom create the world and forget to give yourself a voice?
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treacherously torrid and torrential torrents of totally tangential tumultuous tortuous ; tyrannically torturous adjunct viably salient seethe.     procrastinating pandemic plenipotentiary prosthesis ; prosaically pragmatic parenthetical predication predilection premise prognostication                                                                        panoramic tableau preternatural propensity proclivity prestidigitation gesticulation : gyration guidon ; ghastly gruesome grotesque hideously horrible horrendous heinous grotty gnarly diabolically maniacal dementia brusque macabre abrupt awful amalgamated anathema analysis agnate aggregate aberrance somatalogy virtuoso cognate obduracy worse rudiment ebullience , confluence effluent effusion affluent , prolific profusity opulence , cogent fecund secular secund , recondite redolence abstrusely obstreperous mesomerism resonance resilience protractive perpetude futurity    blither blandishing blabber burnishing boresome blahs lithe blithe jabber prattle chatter tithe morose morsel moribundness   stolid stoic stalwart bastion bulwark
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Oct 24, 2013
Oct 24, 2013 at 5:45 PM UTC
Intradoes Tine
love to sufferers of scarcity consider it embodied in a soul-mate one for one whole split yet aggregate two halves per simplistic two-dimensional singular somehow minded to be complete? stretch out blinded horizons for everything to see is actually a part of an infinitely dimensional infinite part of me
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Jan 24, 2014
Jan 24, 2014 at 11:24 PM UTC
embodied
Every misused glass of water, Every slight at sons and daughters, Every successful missile test, Cars idling, cows lowing, All the chemtrails we don't see blowing, Every dent, every theft, every lie and mocking jest, Can't be held tight to the chest. Distended stomachs, cardboard boxes, Soup kitchens and needy churches, Gay slamming and alternate choices, These and more need our voices. Add the carbon in our air, Two-headed frogs warning, Beware, The paltry state of our bees, The fires devouring our noble trees, The motors on our inland lakes, These and more will not wait. All that crawls, swims or wings, All of us and everything, Is everything to all, There's no time to hesitate, For I am the aggregate.
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Aug 15, 2017
Aug 15, 2017 at 11:56 AM UTC
I Am The Aggregate
1427 To earn it by disdaining it Is Fame’s consummate Fee— He loves what spurns him— Look behind—He is pursuing thee. So let us gather—every Day— The Aggregate of Life’s Bouquet Be Honor and not shame—
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To earn it by disdaining it
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Oct 29, 2013
Oct 29, 2013 at 7:45 PM UTC
Giving go hide highs
A choice along one direction leads to consequential choices based on quasi-essential needs. And countless more directions; some more pointless than they seem. Each with unique-essential implications; all random in their themes. And when faced with new directions, we all enjoy equating means. There are sub-directions and sudden choices; some with supplicatory pleas. Yes, implication's long duration is an invisible machine. A meta-physical motivation to a person and their genes. Personally, my own choices corresponded to these unlimited extremes. To these tiny little time-transporters that fit us into teams. And I thought I'd reached a choice; was on its corresponding way. I followed down its passageways and subdomains for consequential days. And from the way that we all network, I have come to the belief that our decisions implicate the parts that aggregate beneath. Yes, every person has these combinations aggregate throughout their lives. And by the afore-mentioned complications, They (eventually) divide to warring sides. On one side is destruction; On the other, love resides. If you make the wrong decision then these forces, they collide. To catastrophic implications and such damage done inside. But if you're able to pause for just a moment and hold them side-by-side. You will find the sort of peace that only finds those who have died. And suddenly life becomes so simple; no more chances need be applied. Just one choice and two directions Lie in front of your own eyes. You feel quite amazing in proportion to this fantastic new sensation. As one choice takes you to destruction; the other leads you to salvation. It's the truest self-realization and it's there for you to take it. There's a chance of your damnation... but, see, only you can make it.
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Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 5:39 PM UTC
Directions
A choice along one direction leads to consequential choices based on quasi-essential needs. And countless more directions; some more pointless than they seem. Each with unique-essential implications; all random in their themes. And when faced with new directions, we all enjoy equating means. There are sub-directions and sudden choices; some with supplicatory pleas. Yes, implication's long duration is an invisible machine. A meta-physical motivation to a person and their genes. Personally, my own choices corresponded to these unlimited extremes. To these tiny little time-transporters that fit us into teams. And I thought I'd reached a choice; was on its corresponding way. I followed down its passageways and subdomains for consequential days. And from the way that we all network, I have come to the belief that our decisions implicate the parts that aggregate beneath. Yes, every person has these combinations aggregate throughout their lives. And by the afore-mentioned complications, They (eventually) divide to warring sides. On one side is destruction; On the other, love resides. If you make the wrong decision then these forces, they collide. To catastrophic implications and such damage done inside. But if you're able to pause for just a moment and hold them side-by-side. You will find the sort of peace that only finds those who have died. And suddenly life becomes so simple; no more chances need be applied. Just one choice and two directions Lie in front of your own eyes. You feel quite amazing in proportion to this fantastic new sensation. As one choice takes you to destruction; the other leads you to salvation. It's the truest self-realization and it's there for you to take it. There's a chance of your damnation... but, see, only you can make it.
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A sinful habit is the result of negative actions in repetition.... negative actions are the result of trying to gain control because of negative emotions… negative emotions are the result of  negative thoughts and negative thoughts are the result of not feeling accepted and not feeling accepted is a result of having more faith in what other humans think of you instead of what God thinks of you.  Sin starts with a thought and it starts with acceptance and we all need acceptance. When we reject the acceptance of God we chose to be accepted by the world. The world’s acceptance is money, power and beauty and guess what it never lasts …High debt…greediness, divorce rates, anxiety, narcissism, pride, jealousy, eating disorders, depression…infidelity…drug abuse..alcoholism..violence …suicides ****** perversions…the quest for materials…..even religion being used for personal happiness….are all the results of choosing to be accepted by the world whose ruler is satan. It’s never ending and we always need more!  In this model we invite the invitation for negative thoughts , which produce negative emotions that create fear and confusion.. …. ….Hence these sinful actions become our habits and then our habits become our identities……. When enough peoples immoral actions become their identities it then becomes apart of our culture which then  becomes the law…which makes sin one of our rights making sin the norm………. Our nation’s current atrocities are reflections of our aggregate sins and compromises manifested as normal. The devil uses these deceptions to rob your life and always lets you think the blame is on others. My brothers and sisters make no mistake no one can avoid sin. We all sin and were condemned to death and that is why Christ died to forgive you of what we could not avoid. But make no mistake sin starts in the heart and if left unchecked leads to action. Sinful action is worse than sin that stays in the heart because sin in action hurts others. Don’t be over whelmed by this just pay attention to your actions and you may find sin being justified and trust me sin always leaves a paper trail which means we can investigate them through God’s Words and strive to repent of our inevitable sins before they hit reality. Hence we can be forgiven without our sins further hurting others within our world…if enough people change the world changes…It’s easy to point fingers but it’s not easy to change but it all starts with Acceptance…where do you get acceptance? You might be rejected by the world but Jesus Accepts you…… just follow the paper trail……
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Feb 1, 2014
Feb 1, 2014 at 1:04 PM UTC
Paper Trail
A sinful habit is the result of negative actions in repetition.... negative actions are the result of trying to gain control because of negative emotions… negative emotions are the result of  negative thoughts and negative thoughts are the result of not feeling accepted and not feeling accepted is a result of having more faith in what other humans think of you instead of what God thinks of you.  Sin starts with a thought and it starts with acceptance and we all need acceptance. When we reject the acceptance of God we chose to be accepted by the world. The world’s acceptance is money, power and beauty and guess what it never lasts …High debt…greediness, divorce rates, anxiety, narcissism, pride, jealousy, eating disorders, depression…infidelity…drug abuse..alcoholism..violence …suicides ****** perversions…the quest for materials…..even religion being used for personal happiness….are all the results of choosing to be accepted by the world whose ruler is satan. It’s never ending and we always need more!  In this model we invite the invitation for negative thoughts , which produce negative emotions that create fear and confusion.. …. ….Hence these sinful actions become our habits and then our habits become our identities……. When enough peoples immoral actions become their identities it then becomes apart of our culture which then  becomes the law…which makes sin one of our rights making sin the norm………. Our nation’s current atrocities are reflections of our aggregate sins and compromises manifested as normal. The devil uses these deceptions to rob your life and always lets you think the blame is on others. My brothers and sisters make no mistake no one can avoid sin. We all sin and were condemned to death and that is why Christ died to forgive you of what we could not avoid. But make no mistake sin starts in the heart and if left unchecked leads to action. Sinful action is worse than sin that stays in the heart because sin in action hurts others. Don’t be over whelmed by this just pay attention to your actions and you may find sin being justified and trust me sin always leaves a paper trail which means we can investigate them through God’s Words and strive to repent of our inevitable sins before they hit reality. Hence we can be forgiven without our sins further hurting others within our world…if enough people change the world changes…It’s easy to point fingers but it’s not easy to change but it all starts with Acceptance…where do you get acceptance? You might be rejected by the world but Jesus Accepts you…… just follow the paper trail……
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count thy words like you count your breathes - not! the estimable statisticians can estimate the proximate number of breaths our lives will take, the inventory of words, we shall on average aggregate we breathe recklessly, never stopping to slow down the rate with which we tirelessly consume ourselves think of the mess of words, a brain store, like a breath, use it and then purposeful lose it, once employed, nevermore, so write often, even longingly, as in, write long, write hard, every word expelled, a treasure, returned to brother poets for their consumption and reutilization, the monoxide, of a shared oxide when thy stock of words in trade, almost all used up, perforce, must write only short little sweet nothings well, in happy desperation, compose alliterative allegations, nonsensical noises, aiming to pleases summation of essential humanness remain few breaths, issue rhythmic sounds, colorful grunting noises, outed one last intelligible poem that cannot ever be read
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Jan 3, 2015
Jan 3, 2015 at 5:31 AM UTC
count thy words
Just now, laid out like your favorite uncle gone before his time with auntie stretched out beside, I woke to the perfect metaphor for the too-bad, so-sad, too-fast nature of time—or maybe was a simile, as in: the way month upon hour slips away like… Like…like the runt daisy in the bouquet from the ex-lover you never wanted to hear from, least loved bloom among a fistful of beauties never smiled upon at all—Yes—least of all, this wasted flower, its whole-milk petals yellowing And (like time, lest your forget) fluttering, broken-off, to the coffee-stained and salt-strewn countertop…like that, indeed, or something close. That was on my mind as I half awoke—but stirring entire the bundle of words of the ideal image died (yes, sad) in its place: I thought of writing some clever tale how waking up the flash of a line of the perfect literary device some glowing simile or metaphor (how time is the flight plan of a hummingbird and before we can begin to grasp the next orders barked at the co-pilot, the captain has steered the thrumming craft from sugar water to sheltered branch, and what moment passed between is one of many such ticks and tocks, the aggregate meaning that when we wake up suddenly 30, 40, or deceased like your dear uncle, it never seemed like time was passing at all) slipped away from me—wait, I’m getting there— and the words’ escape and time’s escape were somehow one and the same… But no, I thought, too precious. Besides, it’s for sure been done. March 30, 2012 4:02 a.m.
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Jun 30, 2012
Jun 30, 2012 at 3:37 PM UTC
Just Now
Just now, laid out like your favorite uncle gone before his time with auntie stretched out beside, I woke to the perfect metaphor for the too-bad, so-sad, too-fast nature of time—or maybe was a simile, as in: the way month upon hour slips away like… Like…like the runt daisy in the bouquet from the ex-lover you never wanted to hear from, least loved bloom among a fistful of beauties never smiled upon at all—Yes—least of all, this wasted flower, its whole-milk petals yellowing And (like time, lest your forget) fluttering, broken-off, to the coffee-stained and salt-strewn countertop…like that, indeed, or something close. That was on my mind as I half awoke—but stirring entire the bundle of words of the ideal image died (yes, sad) in its place: I thought of writing some clever tale how waking up the flash of a line of the perfect literary device some glowing simile or metaphor (how time is the flight plan of a hummingbird and before we can begin to grasp the next orders barked at the co-pilot, the captain has steered the thrumming craft from sugar water to sheltered branch, and what moment passed between is one of many such ticks and tocks, the aggregate meaning that when we wake up suddenly 30, 40, or deceased like your dear uncle, it never seemed like time was passing at all) slipped away from me—wait, I’m getting there— and the words’ escape and time’s escape were somehow one and the same… But no, I thought, too precious. Besides, it’s for sure been done. March 30, 2012 4:02 a.m.
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No man is an island but as an aggregate, if we can remember who we are, we can become even more solid than a rock. Maybe as an aggregate, we can become the rock we've always been looking for.
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Sep 28, 2014
Sep 28, 2014 at 8:29 PM UTC
Aggregation
I have walked this earth a thousand times. Dirt. A loose aggregate of particles, held together by gravity, and moisture. Rain. Water suspended. Resurging. Cascading in plumes, like sheets of smoke. Sky. Blue. Stretched like canvas. Abstract. Nowhere. Everywhere. I exist. Here. Standing. Thinking. I am dead. I am being born. I am existing across all time and space, but I do not know it. At this moment, I am trapped. I am unconscious. I am unaware. I have walked this earth a thousand times, and cannot even remember. Because it has not happened. Has yet to happen. May never happen. Future. A nonexistence on the horizon. Hope. An ache. A nothing replaced with nothing. Misery. The wretched face in the mirror. A child wears my eyes. She drifts through life. Scared. Alone. Free. She plays in the forest. Her small, sap-covered hands grasp branch after branch. She enters intermediate school. Is called freak. Is judged by her skin, her eyes. She realises she is different for the first time. Alien. Deviant. Other. Her eyes fill with self-hatred. I have watched this moment a thousand times, yet can do nothing. Disintegration. The act of separation. Loneliness. A billion strangers condemned to live together. Existence. A billion billion billion particles, shifting beneath my flesh. There is no death that can end my being. I have felt the atoms of my past collide, and spark into biology. I have felt the atoms of my future shred like fractals, spiralling into a dim, dark nothingness. I have felt all this, and none of it. From infinity I came, to infinity I’ll go. Forever cycling in the pantomime of existence. This pretend construct of space and time.
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Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015 at 8:45 AM UTC
Recurrence
I have walked this earth a thousand times. Dirt. A loose aggregate of particles, held together by gravity, and moisture. Rain. Water suspended. Resurging. Cascading in plumes, like sheets of smoke. Sky. Blue. Stretched like canvas. Abstract. Nowhere. Everywhere. I exist. Here. Standing. Thinking. I am dead. I am being born. I am existing across all time and space, but I do not know it. At this moment, I am trapped. I am unconscious. I am unaware. I have walked this earth a thousand times, and cannot even remember. Because it has not happened. Has yet to happen. May never happen. Future. A nonexistence on the horizon. Hope. An ache. A nothing replaced with nothing. Misery. The wretched face in the mirror. A child wears my eyes. She drifts through life. Scared. Alone. Free. She plays in the forest. Her small, sap-covered hands grasp branch after branch. She enters intermediate school. Is called freak. Is judged by her skin, her eyes. She realises she is different for the first time. Alien. Deviant. Other. Her eyes fill with self-hatred. I have watched this moment a thousand times, yet can do nothing. Disintegration. The act of separation. Loneliness. A billion strangers condemned to live together. Existence. A billion billion billion particles, shifting beneath my flesh. There is no death that can end my being. I have felt the atoms of my past collide, and spark into biology. I have felt the atoms of my future shred like fractals, spiralling into a dim, dark nothingness. I have felt all this, and none of it. From infinity I came, to infinity I’ll go. Forever cycling in the pantomime of existence. This pretend construct of space and time.
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Today’s lesson on the pad Showing a new guy how to stake grades So we paced out a grid and pounded in stakes at semi-even intervals Always picking up where someone else left off Using their existing grid, we paced ~16 m in Northing (a metre is approximately equal to a yard) Again, using the existing grid, we paced ~13 m in Easting Then I asked him to pace out the hypotenuse, it was ~21 m The grid was for the most part at right angles to each other To show the new guy how Pythagoras came to his theorem I scratched a triangle in the crushed aggregate On the side of the x-plane I scratched 16 m and on the side of the y-plane I scratched 13 m The diagonal received a 21 m Out came the notebook 16 squared plus 13 squared = ~21 squared Using my iPhone calculator 256 plus 169 = ~21 squared 425 = ~21 squared square root of 425 = ~20.6155281280883 or ~21 Then I grabbed my stick to scratch out a head, body, appendages, and finally a circle encompassing my proto-Vitruvian dude Never thought work could be this fun!
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Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 10:16 PM UTC
Vitruvio
Dedicated to the Hard Hats, ..for holding it all together. **** frost on the green grass There's a cold moon in the sky The estuary waters black and calm Where golden ripples lie. Dawn's horizon lightens up Bright stars begin to dim Hard Hats all arrive for work And with frozen breath...log in. Work boots crunching on the stone The men disperse to trucks, The diesel motors roar to life Their departures forming rucks. Swarming in the morning light Each to his own job's task, Bridge building work underway As dawn's first sunbeams bask. Amazing the complexity That building bridges has, Amazing how voraciously It eats up time and gas. The planning and design work The funding of supply, Those organizational matters And the labour standing bye. Digging, lifting, shoving, shifting Moving this to there, A logistical nightmare For the novice, unaware. Steel and timber by the ton Concrete pours en mass, Gravel, sand and aggregate And reservoirs of gas. Procurement of supply ensures A smooth transitional flow Of successive small procedures To make the project mesh and grow. Day after day the massive trucks Carting tons of sand Are authorized by gate men To unload on to land Where motorway construction Is steadfastly taking place And progressing at A gradual and steady building pace. From concept to completion A million multitasks, Which involves a caste of thousands And a schedule which asks, That the finished installation Be completed by the time Of the Rugby World Cup kickoff, Our global status on the line. Like ants the Hard Hats swarm about Each does his little bit And gradually, over time, The bridge emerges from the pit. It emergeth like a phoenix In a drab and sombre gown But on completion, shines like fire To be the nation's most re known. The Manukau Harbour Crossing A project for the Gods, Of massive lengths of concrete And miles of reinforcing rods. Of an eternity of effort From everyone involved And an asset for New Zealand And a beauty to behold. Marshalg @theGate MHX Mangere Bridge 14th March 2009 Please view the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzQZ-M90Zig
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Nov 14, 2009
Nov 14, 2009 at 1:07 PM UTC
M.H.X. Emergeth
Dedicated to the Hard Hats, ..for holding it all together. **** frost on the green grass There's a cold moon in the sky The estuary waters black and calm Where golden ripples lie. Dawn's horizon lightens up Bright stars begin to dim Hard Hats all arrive for work And with frozen breath...log in. Work boots crunching on the stone The men disperse to trucks, The diesel motors roar to life Their departures forming rucks. Swarming in the morning light Each to his own job's task, Bridge building work underway As dawn's first sunbeams bask. Amazing the complexity That building bridges has, Amazing how voraciously It eats up time and gas. The planning and design work The funding of supply, Those organizational matters And the labour standing bye. Digging, lifting, shoving, shifting Moving this to there, A logistical nightmare For the novice, unaware. Steel and timber by the ton Concrete pours en mass, Gravel, sand and aggregate And reservoirs of gas. Procurement of supply ensures A smooth transitional flow Of successive small procedures To make the project mesh and grow. Day after day the massive trucks Carting tons of sand Are authorized by gate men To unload on to land Where motorway construction Is steadfastly taking place And progressing at A gradual and steady building pace. From concept to completion A million multitasks, Which involves a caste of thousands And a schedule which asks, That the finished installation Be completed by the time Of the Rugby World Cup kickoff, Our global status on the line. Like ants the Hard Hats swarm about Each does his little bit And gradually, over time, The bridge emerges from the pit. It emergeth like a phoenix In a drab and sombre gown But on completion, shines like fire To be the nation's most re known. The Manukau Harbour Crossing A project for the Gods, Of massive lengths of concrete And miles of reinforcing rods. Of an eternity of effort From everyone involved And an asset for New Zealand And a beauty to behold. Marshalg @theGate MHX Mangere Bridge 14th March 2009 Please view the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzQZ-M90Zig
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Jul 8, 2014
Jul 8, 2014 at 2:16 PM UTC
rhyme trash
I knew this man because I was this man So it must be said; I was this man because I knew this man And never did I faultier when he reached with his trusting hand Bound by intent, his grip stowed the tension of promise and fruition His is a lifetime laden with the cogs of internal creation This is the summons, the congenial placement of his offer Beckoning the self to again be rendered upon the plane of the psychotropic wood Through this sanctified exchange the divergent union assumes singular being A spiral of fleeting connectivity, lapsing as the hesitant tide breaks upon neither shore nor sea So the invitation reciprocates moment to moment by way of residual eternity The soul twists and skips in both agony and ecstasy Bearing a jagged tolerance for lingering wait and the flash of re-entry Thus begun my endless stroll within the confinement of mind I am birthed each day anew in the cradling mist blanketing the forest floor With shy eyes one surrenders to this emergent rim Sentenced to wake beneath the towering monoliths, the fossil redwoods Who lull my attentive ear with the ambient groans of their interned memory Joined in chorus only by the hushed breathe of the creborus crows These birds, these deities hung inverted from gray and rotted limbs Whispering their imbuement to the aggregate dirge of pardon This is the swallowing of supposed sensory Set in impetus, this final paradigm may forever possess the gift of awareness.
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Mar 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013 at 8:21 PM UTC
The self-indulgent commentaries: Part I
The double chamber, the grit, the granular source and collective pit of one's corporeal time accelerating each instant through that check valve of now/then, . . . that drop zone below the present tense.
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Mar 23, 2012
Mar 23, 2012 at 12:59 PM UTC
Aggregate hourglass
Investors need to stop treating stocks as a ‘beauty contest’ and follow the difficult investment style of Keynes, global pension expert Keith Ambachtsheer said. Data produced in a working paper from the Harvard Business Schoolshowed that portfolios built on firms with a good material sustainability rating outperformed those that had a poor rating, an aspect not considered enough by investors who were caught up with quarterly returns, Ambachtsheer said at a Chartered Financial Analyst seminar in Sydney on Monday. “What I see happening out there is largely speculation – what Keynes called ‘beauty contest investing’, where everybody tries to figure out what the most popular stocks are going to be in six months, buys them and when they become really popular sells them,” Ambachtsheer said. He added the implications of this investment style as an aggregate was a zero sum game, whereas investing should be taking savings and turning them into wealth producing capital. “The key thing is you need to look beyond the next quarter; you look at the long-term sustainability of the business model of the corporation, as well as the people behind it in terms of how it is being managed.” The Harvard Business School (HBS) working paper superimposed the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board materiality map (which identifies likely material sustainability issues on an industry-by-industry basis) onto 400 common US stocks identified through sustainability metrics from Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini Research & Analytics. They examined what effect materiality would have over the long-term (starting from the 1980s) and found the top 10 per cent of firms that scored strongly on material sustainability outperformed the bottom 10 per cent, by nine per cent over a rolling twenty-year period. “The practical question is, can you actually manage money this way in the real world? And the answer is yes, but it’s very hard, because you are doing unconventional things,” Ambachtsheer said. Real-world Keynesianism investors – such as Warren Buffett and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan – are in a minority despite outperforming over the long-term. In chapter 12 of his seminal workThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes explained the reason for this was the essence of long-term investors meant their behaviour would be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of average opinion. “Most organisations can’t function like this,” Ambachtsheer said, as they were too focused on the present.Read more at:www.marieaustralia.com/vintage-formal-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/backless-formal-dresses
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Nov 15, 2016
Nov 15, 2016 at 2:31 AM UTC
Stop ‘beauty contest’ and act like Keynes
Investors need to stop treating stocks as a ‘beauty contest’ and follow the difficult investment style of Keynes, global pension expert Keith Ambachtsheer said. Data produced in a working paper from the Harvard Business Schoolshowed that portfolios built on firms with a good material sustainability rating outperformed those that had a poor rating, an aspect not considered enough by investors who were caught up with quarterly returns, Ambachtsheer said at a Chartered Financial Analyst seminar in Sydney on Monday. “What I see happening out there is largely speculation – what Keynes called ‘beauty contest investing’, where everybody tries to figure out what the most popular stocks are going to be in six months, buys them and when they become really popular sells them,” Ambachtsheer said. He added the implications of this investment style as an aggregate was a zero sum game, whereas investing should be taking savings and turning them into wealth producing capital. “The key thing is you need to look beyond the next quarter; you look at the long-term sustainability of the business model of the corporation, as well as the people behind it in terms of how it is being managed.” The Harvard Business School (HBS) working paper superimposed the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board materiality map (which identifies likely material sustainability issues on an industry-by-industry basis) onto 400 common US stocks identified through sustainability metrics from Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini Research & Analytics. They examined what effect materiality would have over the long-term (starting from the 1980s) and found the top 10 per cent of firms that scored strongly on material sustainability outperformed the bottom 10 per cent, by nine per cent over a rolling twenty-year period. “The practical question is, can you actually manage money this way in the real world? And the answer is yes, but it’s very hard, because you are doing unconventional things,” Ambachtsheer said. Real-world Keynesianism investors – such as Warren Buffett and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan – are in a minority despite outperforming over the long-term. In chapter 12 of his seminal workThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes explained the reason for this was the essence of long-term investors meant their behaviour would be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of average opinion. “Most organisations can’t function like this,” Ambachtsheer said, as they were too focused on the present.Read more at:www.marieaustralia.com/vintage-formal-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/backless-formal-dresses
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