Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted In The Grove:
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
~Jimmy Demaret

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
~George Burns

When a man talks dirty to a woman, it’s sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it’s $3.95 a minute.
~Author Unknown

EndQuote:
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir … mighty scarce.
~Mark Twain

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Posted from the Grove

What We Learned From Writing 7,000 Artist Bios
https://www.artsy.net/article/elena-soboleva-what-we-learned-from-writing-7-000-artist-bios?mc_cid

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~Postmodern JukeBox ft. Gunhild Carling: Never Gonna Give You Up (3:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTmk0Pqk6hs

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs 05/02:  charm, costume

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten:  isotope, fleece

~BarTalk:
Recipe

Ice a taupe tinted herbal tea
Add a hint of taint, make it gin for me
Share drinks with friend who eyes a smoke
Join next round for a righteous toke
One more time each and sanity flees
Flying elephant meets giant circus fleas
Smoke was fine
But tea tested positive for LSD

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Bad Chemistry/Worse Poetry

Isotope 4 $ale: plus a negative ion
Senseless phrase used for code
In our Case of the Lucrative Prion
A specimen gets gone
Meant someone was sent
To penetrate our research and to spy on
Accomplished with an aide
Trained to aid as accomplice
Meant an inside job and a mole left to carry on
To alter research, dig in our files and to pry on
Doubts and accusations abound
Until fear brings them ’round
And the board votes to bring a private eye on
Turns out our he was a she, our VP of HR
Living the high life in Saigon

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5-7-5 x 6

dollars for careers
isotopes to loss of hope
fleeced for a sheepskin
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comfort, jealousy
lust, emotional fleecings
isotopes of love
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isotopes bring change
pitchblende for uranium
fleeced of guilt for war
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loose the isotope
fleece the blue marble of life
plan it for reset
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fleece the white virgin page
scarred by lines scored for music
scaled note isotopes
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mint, chocolate, sprinkled
isotopes come to ice cream
as fleece is to fur

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Quoted In The Grove:
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
~Henri Frederic Amiel

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
~George Eliot

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
~Thomas Carlyle

EndQuote:
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Harvested: BrainyQuote.com
Curated: Wordgrove

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Posted from the Grove

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Vimeo Video
~ Thomas Van-Havermaet:  Laundromat   (5:05)
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/314968558

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs 04/25:  fleece, isotope

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten:  cotton, parade

~BarTalk:
Best Memory #21

Marched half time at the Cotton Bowl
Played slide trombone, wore coveralls
Band was tops
Major Ette gave her all
Turned flip into faceplant
Split into sprawl
A plunge into mud
Covered her prat and fall
I’d say best parade ever, over all

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patriots on parade

we mostly feeds ’em ‘n rarely beats ’em
mas ‘n pas ‘n our dootiful child’ens
don’t cotton to newditty, Miss behavin or swearin’
but hate is ok providin’ (insert a god’s name) is willin’
we knows the truth cuz ours was written as given
fer that speshul reason it’s worth all the killin’

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Old Folks Home

Grand old man getting paunchy
Much too old for getting raunchy
Watched Grandpa raid the pantry
Caught on tape with the only key

No more calling him Pansy
Not fancy man, Gramps or a Nancy
Old ladies getting worked up and antsy
Excited by his derring-do banditry
Flirt outrageously, coyly and comically
Approaching him privately and openly
Trusting to decorum and his gallantry

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Kingdoms

Extravagant princelings
Half-wits on parade
Cotton brief thinking
Decadence portrayed
Just_Us their password
Of justice no inkling
Royalty loyally
Ever on display

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5-7-5 x 2

angelic beauty
thin cotton shift sunlit nude
July 4th parade
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blacks working cotton
end of day smiles on parade
cinematic ploy

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Quoted In The Grove:
Writing is like carrying a fetus.
~Edna O’Brien

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.
~J B Priestley

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. ~Truman Capote

EndQuote
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
~Norman Mailer

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Posted from the Grove

~Blender Open Movie:  Spring   (7:44)
https://vimeo.com/325910798

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs 04/11:   parade, cotton

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten:  wire, soldier

~BarTalk:
Seasoned

It’s fall and football at Soldier Field
Chicago burns but they don’t yield
Wired for sound fueled by beer
Fans go nuts, scream for da Bears!

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Love Note

Dear John letter fresh from home
Survival skills perfectly honed
Finest point man in all 4th Batt
Saw fit to trip the hot wire trap
Sue, he sighed before he died
Good soldiers cry, but only once

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scarper

jailbreak after supper
bring the wire cutter
trade prison stripes for pinstripe
sentence time for wedding hype
hard core types for baby wipes

she’s a doll, a man could fall
flee concrete stalls
climb mile high walls
but this soldier’s going AWOL
twice

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5-7-5 x 5

wire from headquarters
soldier on to Galveston
hurricane today
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cars worth a fortune
sold your vintage collection
why are you crying

temp: 100+
sold your air conditioner
why aren’t you frying

stole your lands away
sold your native heritage
why aren’t you dying

sold your haunted house
orphanage of your childhood
why are you crying

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