Quoted in the Grove:
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
~Calvin Coolidge
Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed.
~H H Swami Tejomayananda
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
~Newt Gingrich
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Posted from the Grove:
Prewritten for Thurs (05/14) @6pm PT/9 ET is a pic by: ~John Pitre
http://ishtari.arcticworlds3d.com/therestuff/splitworld.jpg
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Prewritten: tooth, consequences
~Greymane: Vacant
I met an old codger so long in the tooth
he barely remembered his name
He told me there once was a time in his youth
when they thought him too wild to tame
An expert at wicked and lecherous ways
Progressively losing his grip
From long drunken parties that lasted for days
to hootchiecoo clubs on the strip
He sold all his morals for pleasures and sin
Heavenly consequence damned
The devil sat laughing behind his dark grin
while the doors of depravity slammed
From somewhere in hell he observed a faint light
and he crawled his way out of the dark
So now he sits vacant alone in the night
on his bench in this desolate park
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~Piffin: “Mermaid Sushi”
Kissing Cancun ocean
Tongue ring diving pearl
Down on my knees wet with tropical breeze
And the sweat of a vacation girl
Cat claw confidences
In hammocks wearing the moon
But conch shell consequences
Brought us surface side and soon
Vodka northbound air bus
New York City sprawl
The thing I miss most about us
Is nothing about you at all
Lime and salt and body shots
Slid my defenses down
I grabbed my brush with romance
Painted up that tourist town
Postcard to my sister:
“I’m never coming home”
She met me at the airport
She picked me up alone
Reflection in the auto glass
Tan tinted to a pall
The thing I miss most about us
Is nothing about you at all
I almost felt for a moment
I almost felt in charge
I almost felt
I almost felt
But life it looms and large
Casual commuter cancan
At the subway token booth
I rip the memories from me
Like a kite string doorknob tooth
I’ll drop them from the ferry
I won’t even watch them fall
The thing I miss most about us
Is nothing about you at all
The thing I miss most about us
Is nothing about you at all
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~BarTalk: Truth or Consequence
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Impromptu: aflutter, cider
~Greymane: Aflutter
Jack and Jill were at the still making apple-jack
but all that Jack could focus on was Jill’s enormous rack
Whenever she would look at him he found himself aflutter
and how she glistened in the sun just melted him like butter
He lavished her with all his charm in hopes he’d get a smooch
but couldn’t pry her lips away from all the backwoods hootch
A drunken girl in flimsy clothes, no apple for her cheese
“you’re wish is my command.” he said and headed for the trees
He wobbled and he almost fell but knew what he must do
He plucked the reddest ripest one but he’d been drinking too…
From up above his woozy head there dropped a giant spider
He teetered on the flimsy branch until he fell in cider
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~Piffin: “Little Miss Nutter”
Little Miss Nutter
Heart all aflutter
Sat down for Thanksgiving grace
Along came a spider
Knocked over her cider
So she shot him in the face
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~BarTalk: Taste of Honey
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