Quoted in the Grove:
If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z.
Work is x, play is y, and z is keeping your mouth shut.
~Albert Einstein
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
~Rabindranath Tagore
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
~Robert Benchley
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Piffin From The Platform: Loss and Melancholy
~Elvis Costello: Just A Memory (2:16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B75Ym8ZHv1whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B75Ym8ZHv1w
~Tom Waits: Grapefruit Moon (4:52)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKQaSZXEK2s
~Radical Face: Homesick (3:34)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqCZKtXgKKw
Because a real discovery deserves more than one song, see Piff’s Pick, bottom page*
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Posted from the Grove:
25 Smart Synonyms – some you might use
http://mentalfloss.com/article/524699/25-smart-synonyms-you-should-be-using
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Prewritten for Thurs 02/01 (6:00pm PT/9 ET) funeral, tuna
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@Writers Platform:
Prewritten ~ Theme: ambivalent
~Greymane: I Dunno
Thought I’d wander, wasn’t sure,
I may have lost my way
where cloudy answers too obscure confuse my dazed dismay
I spiral undecided, my direction unforeseen
My choices get ahead of me and try to intervene
Applying indecision in the hopes it might undo
the ambivalent equivalent of what I thought I knew
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~BarTalk: Quandry I and II
Tender flowers of spring
Tinder for a summer fire
New love and hope sings
Cinders, burnt-out heart
Up? Worth the downfall?
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2C or not 2C
To knock or not to knock
To be scenery or not seen
2B loved was unrequited
Locked box shut inside it
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Impromptu: elegance
~Piffin: “Pocket Polished Pennies”
Standing out like a sour thumb
Pruning, preening, a dried-out plum
Adding things I cannot factor
Voiced like a silent film actor
Drawing details in the dark
Sharpening my magic marker
Whistling like a lush, a lark
And here I go again
Pocketful of common cents
Elemental elegance
Socratic somnolence
Playing with myself defense
Jumping off the ledge I built
Gilded golden by my guilt
Slipping in the words I spilt
And here I go again
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~Greymane: Opened
Elegant vengeance painted in blood
He evened the score like he said
He opened his soul and he drowned in the flood
that was living alone in his head
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~Matttt: ELEGANCE
It was a simple moment
Her white gloves, past her elbows
She rolled her wrist
And fluidly presented her glass
To be refilled
She eased back slid her eyes across the room
There was him…
And there was that group…
Yes… This was a good crowd
They knew her well
And she approved
There was a time
When this needn’t be spoken
Those who should know, knew
Poised on the mezzanine
The drone of the audience
The hold of the crystal
Delicious amber inside
We sip…
As the night ends
She brushes her cheek
And holds his neck
Before the door clicks
And the engine purrs
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BarTalk: 5-7-5
elegant angels
morning star birthing heavens
whispered murmurings
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Pre-Game 5-7-5 Ku Corner: coffee
hot black bitter brew
bedtime venom poisoned sleep
dawn’s inspiration
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crystal flavorings
cream, courtesy milky way
roast bean powered brains
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*Piff’s Pick: Best of What’s New
~Radical Face: Wrapped in Piano Strings (3:36)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRX86W60yY
~Radical Face: Winter is Coming (4:20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88-JnKG5L1A
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