{"id":121,"date":"2013-02-26T01:51:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T19:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=121"},"modified":"2021-06-17T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T17:48:00","slug":"if-you-can-read-this-youre-too-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"IF YOU CAN READ THIS, YOU&#8217;RE TOO CLOSE."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>  <o:OfficeDocumentSettings>   <o:AllowPNG\/>  <\/o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Recently, I caught my wife reading some of my blahgs.<\/span><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.falseducks.com\/mrcool.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Henderson still thinks he's cool!\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\">\u00a0 There isn&#8217;t anything wrong with that so don&#8217;t read anything into my action of catching her doing something that is perfectly normal.\u00a0 I was just taken aback is all.\u00a0 In some sullen moments when I find my wife and I at distances, I think about the fact that she doesn&#8217;t even ready my blahg!\u00a0 I guess I can&#8217;t use that argument anymore.\u00a0 I guess I should also watch what I write here.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t anything to hide.\u00a0 There is nothing in any of my blahgs that I am ashamed for having written.\u00a0 I try to tell the truth here or offer my opinion on what&#8217;s happening or what interests me.\u00a0 One fact:\u00a0 I like The Weepies!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve said that before and I&#8217;m listening to them now as I write this blahg.\u00a0 Here they are live at the Brit Festival in Southern Orgeon on August 23, 2011:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xbF9EzdTB4o\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The title of this blahg comes from that old bumper sticker you used to see on many cars.\u00a0 IF YOU CAN READ THIS, YOU&#8217;RE TOO CLOSE.\u00a0 The perception is that if you could read the bumper sticker then you were tailgating or following too close behind the vehicle in front of you and that could be a dangerous thing.\u00a0 But I think there is another interpretation.\u00a0 In the case of my blahg, if you can read this, you&#8217;re too close&#8230;to me.\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re standing too close to me but rather the other definition of being close to me through relation or friendship.\u00a0 You know who I am and what I&#8217;m all about.\u00a0 That&#8217;s as close as you can really get to anyone.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have a problem with anyone who is close to me reading anything I write.\u00a0 I guess I really have a problem with myself because I don&#8217;t write enough for people to read.\u00a0 These blahgs have too much time passing between the reading of each.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t written any fiction in a long time.\u00a0 I barely write my signature any more, for that matter.\u00a0 My output has dwindled to reminder notes or shopping lists or appointment dates on the calendar.\u00a0 The last thing I wrote of any meaning was a short verse in the Valentine&#8217;s Day card I gave to my wife.\u00a0 That&#8217;s sad.\u00a0 The verse wasn&#8217;t sad but the fact that I&#8217;m not writing any more is a low point.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.falseducks.com\/proof\/proan.gif\" alt=\"My collection of Christmas themed material, Proof For Believing\" width=\"178.6\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I always believed I was a good writer and thought I had promise. \u00a0I have even self-published a volume of my Christmas themed material, &#8220;Proof For Believing&#8221;. Before that, I wrote a novel called &#8220;False Ducks&#8221; that sadly sits unpublished.\u00a0 Everything stops after that.\u00a0 Only these blahgs continue.\u00a0 These blahgs were meant to be an outlet for my creativity and to be a forum for my previously written material.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve failed even at that.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve barely posted here, anything of my own.\u00a0 Certainly nothing new other than the blahg of the week or month.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I want to rectify some of that.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong><a title=\"My First Nothing Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.falseducks.com\/theblahg\/images\/nothing1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" name=\"My First Nothing Book\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/images\/nothing1.jpg\" alt=\"An Excerpt From My First Nothing Book\" width=\"274.6\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>I want to share some of my earlier writing.\u00a0 When Jeanette and I first started as friends in 1984, she gave me a &#8220;Nothing Book&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s basically a blank journal that I wrote poems in for two years.\u00a0 Not all of them were winners but I wrote steadily.\u00a0 I really like the second poem from this volume, &#8220;Almost Day 8,124&#8221;.\u00a0 The title comes from the fact that this poem was written on the 8,124th day since I was born.\u00a0 I was 22 and the &#8220;Almost&#8221; refers to the fact that I think it was the 8,124th day since my birth but the math could be wrong.\u00a0 Click on the image to see a larger version of this handwritten ode.\u00a0 Here it is in typed format:<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ALMOST DAY 8,124<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>Look where we have paced across<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the floor<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>and left a life-line that still shows through!<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 September<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>was here and now it&#8217;s a cold and dry<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 December<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>that blows away old nightmares.<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>The<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 rest<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 world could never<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 know<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 placidity<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>that exists in darkened rooms; left by<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 friends<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>vacationing in an austere moment of commercial<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 spirit.<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>The music plays sweeet and low,<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 while the inhabited flats<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 burn down.<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>Who will sing for those who have passed<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 before us<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 or<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>for those, on returning from their holidays,<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 who will<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 discover,<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 that while they loved strangers,<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 their friends<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 had been cremated?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I know, the formatting is weird.\u00a0 What&#8217;s with the indentation of some lines and not others?\u00a0 Frankly, I don&#8217;t remember.\u00a0 I think I was trying to prove to myself I could write modern poetry and thought that odd formatting was the key.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not.\u00a0 The words are the key.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s another poem from the last page of that first Nothing Book.\u00a0 This is &#8220;to write a last poem&#8221; that was written on March 3rd, 1987:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to write a last poem<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>it&#8217;s all cracked<br \/>\npuffed up <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>read <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>by myself <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>over and over and <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>over <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>through <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>and done <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>to a crisp<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong> precise <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>outline <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>of my mind <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>and the poems <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>in there <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>steady ready <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>to bust <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>like milkweed <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>to editor\u00a0<strong>\u00e1 <\/strong> editor <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>de editor\u00a0<strong>\u00e1 <\/strong> editor <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>again&#8211;but&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>I think that&#8217;s clear<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong> and about as sane<br \/>\nor poetic <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>as I want to be <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>&#8217;cause the volume <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>of work <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>I&#8217;ve worked on <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>is gone <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0 to death<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>done <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0 to death <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>by the absence <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>of a rhyming dictionary <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in this limbo <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of bein&#8217; unpublished <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong><strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At least the formatting has settled down; except the last two lines.\u00a0 Again, don&#8217;t ask for meaning.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t bore you with poems from the beginning of the second Nothing Book because they follow shortly after the one above.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s one from the middle of that second volume, &#8220;LTD.&#8221; written August 16th, 1989, two years after Jeanette and I had married:<\/strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LTD.<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>da flesh is only perfect twice:<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>birth and death <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>au natural and paste up <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>and all between <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>scarred by <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>razor burn or fisticuffs <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>mosquito bites or forward pass <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>minor surgery <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>bad deeds <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>bad poems <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>da realization <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>dat how ya should&#8217;ve lived <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>is all too clear <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>after yer face&#8217;s been molded <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong><strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The second Nothing Book is not full.\u00a0 I ran out of steam or creativity or time or something I have to dredge up to be an excuse.\u00a0 The last poem was written on March 10th, 2005.\u00a0 Before that poem, I had last written a poem to my youngest daughter &#8220;a poem for abigail&#8221; on August 9th, 1999.\u00a0 It had occurred to me that I had also written a poem about our eldest daughter &#8220;em&#8221; on October 7th, 1990 (the date of her birth) but I had never written anything about Noah.\u00a0 So on March 10th, 2005, I wrote my last poem in the second Nothing Book.\u00a0 Here it is:<\/strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 noah<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>yer own voyage <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>will be longer <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>span great walls <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>take in ancient histories <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>write new ones <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>cast a different shadow <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>outside of mine<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong><strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That&#8217;s the last of the output.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t believe I have written a poem since.\u00a0 I wrote a few new short stories back in 2007 to include in &#8220;Proof For Believing&#8221; but no new poems.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know how to begin.\u00a0 It takes all my efforts to write a blahg and the creativity of a poem doesn&#8217;t come to me.\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;m to close to the subject and I can&#8217;t write it anymore.\u00a0 I did say that IF YOU CAN READ THIS, YOU&#8217;RE TOO CLOSE.\u00a0 Maybe the opposite is true:\u00a0 IF YOU CAN WRITE THIS, YOU&#8217;RE FAR ENOUGH AWAY.\u00a0 I need to step back and look at my poetic career.\u00a0 I was published a few times but that was in the late 1980s when I was trying hard.\u00a0 I guess I just need to try harder.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong><strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I stepped away from this blahg and tried harder.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what I came up with, February 25th, 2013:<\/strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 if you can read this, you&#8217;re too close<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>step back <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>step up <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>have we got a show for you <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>the caged animal, <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>wild man of borneo, <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>writer with nothing to write<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong> 10 cents! <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>cheap at half the price <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>unless you&#8217;re paying by the word <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>then double that and add 30 <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>like metric conversion <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>a drought&#8217;s a drought <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>water or words <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s better to drown in <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>I&#8217;ve looked too close <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>at the man behind the curtain, <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>the one in the mirror, <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>old dog with few tricks <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>still can beg<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong> your pardon <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>excuses for not writing <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>dropping a line <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; 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padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>if you&#8217;re too far away <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>you&#8217;ll miss the show <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>if you&#8217;re too close <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';\"><strong>there&#8217;s nothing to see <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"line-height: 150%; 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