‘innocence’ is bliss!
white gloves, black heart
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“…by any name…”
one plague’s as good as another
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25-to-Life
life...without parole!
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9-11 Myopia
where are the good guys?
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A 20/20 Handicap
ostriches are happier
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A Day in the Cosmic Lab/Back to the Drawing Board
genesis revisited
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A Prayer For Peace
...at any price
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a sure thing
...and a sucker bet
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A Woman’s Place
not where she’s "kept"
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Alone In the World
on being an anomaly
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an absence of innocence at the G8
wi’ a thankee nod to Bobbie Burns
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Aprons Redux
they’re not just for the kitchen
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armed & dangerous
a mother’s most powerful weapon [english/french]
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Assignment: Earth
very foreign correspondent
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attainment
on disconnecting
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Autoerotica
who made whom?
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Bad News: Good News
there’s hope for earth yet
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beachcombing
finding unhidden treasure
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becalmed
at sea, at sea
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Behavior Optional
"who/what" made you do it?
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Body Parts
children loved and lost
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Boys Will Be…Bullies?
...on the playground and on the internet
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Bring Back the Guillotine!
ok, no head-lopping, but...
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Can’t Tell the Players Without a Scorecard
fair play?
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Captive Audience
when nobody else will listen
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Carper’s Index
(with semi-abject apologies to Harper’s Magazine)
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cast adrift
mid-oceanic musings
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Chicken or Egg: Parts I & II
mankind’s mental dis-order
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Clement-to-Michael Segue
season’s greetings
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Color Me Color-Blind
...when it comes to race
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come with me to matera!
the ’ladies’ room
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Common Senses
trashing mom and mother earth
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Continuum
connective memory
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Credit Where Due: I.O.U.
mini-payback-poem
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Crimes Against Humanity:
“...(when) good men do nothing."
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cynics not allowed?
tough!
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Death Sentences
words that kill
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Déja Vu?
...all over again
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Desert Tsunami: Elective Vision
empathy and apathy
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Dying Words
an understandable imprecation exclamation
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Entitled, The
by whom?
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Equal-Opportunity Employer
a corpse is a corpse, is a... !
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Etymology of an Endangering Species
dirty word roots
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exeunt
nature’s bows
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Exodus (?)
red sea vs red planet
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Eyes On the Sky, Thumb Out
intergalactic hitchhiking
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flights of fancy
...and delusions of grandeur
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Flunking Your IQ Test
it’s easy...anybody can do it!
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For the Listening-Impaired
no batteries required
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Free Lunch
the high cost of loving
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Free verse!
unchaining the brain
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Frozen Assets
greed vs need
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Gender Render
the worm turns
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Genesis of Child Abuse, The
it had to start somewhere!
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Genesis(?)
the bible according to maia
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get your t-shirts here!
a twice-told tale (and then some!)
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Ginseng Gang
gettin’ old’s no excuse
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God Only Knows
rising above my station?
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good ol’ boys’ good ol’ bottom line, the
partners in slime
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Grand Theft: Moon
lovers left in the dark
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Great Blizzard of Ought-One, The
paper, paper everywhere, nor any drop of ink...
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Gross Pathology
what i see is what you get
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Have You Got the Right Time?
there’s no such thing as late
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Heart-Breaking News! [Rated PG]
our kids’ role models
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Help Stamp Out Heroism!
too simple for words
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Here’s Lookin’ at You, Kid!
boys-2-men at the hairline
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Hiding in the Fog
excuses, excuses...
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High Noon 24/7
NRA’s irrational rationale
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High Sight
overstepping our bounds
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Hollow Be Thy Name
running on empty
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h-o-p-e
a bad good word
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hors de combat
duke it out, dodos!
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how to build a better species
homo-cidal tendencies
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hypocritic oath, the
a pederast’s pride
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I Wish...
where’s that Blue Fairy when I need her?
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Identity Crisis
estranged in a strange land
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Ill-Gotten Gains
mankind’s habitat habits
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Imminent Ptomaine
all’s fair in love, war, and greed
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in the eyes of the beholder
mirror, mirror...
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In the Immortal Words of…
my POV... via "The Bard"
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Ingrates
the consequences of bad manners
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Irreconcilable Differences
the sun/moon split... no pre-nup!
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Just Another Day in Zimbabwe
business as usual
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justice, apology, or just another excuse?
letting it all hang out
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Last Laugh
on the bounding main
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Last Words
to weak to speak, I write
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Lead Blindly, Kind Light
Safety-Glass strongly recommended
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les royaumes
bemused by boring bluebloods
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lest you forget
9/11’s 21st century pyramid
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Letter from a homesick traveler...
with no ’wish you were here’ ending!
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levitation
lift-off for the landbound
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Life (Without Parole)
how would you like to be a pet?
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Like Father, Like Daughter
but, he could shrug it off!
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lots of dollars and no sense
bankruptcy, species-style
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M.I.A.
casualties of men’s war against their women & children
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Making Miracles
when you’ve no other option
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Meddling: An Epitaph
Meddling: An Epitaph
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monkey hear, monkey do
bringing up baby
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Mother Nature’s Balancing Act
...and man’s finger on the scale!
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Motherly Love: Exercises in Futility
when it’s all we have... and not enough
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My “Living” Will
there’ll be nothing to fight over
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My Blue Tinian
heaven’s where you find it
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Natural Gifts
...of wombankind
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No Longer On Exhibit In God’s Museum
the guided tour takes a while... but it’s worth it!
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No Rest For the Wordy
writing as an incurable disease
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Of Sound Mind
healthy minds make nobody rich
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On Endday…
what if we all died tomorrow?
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on hearts...and lower parts!
love, sex, ’n so on
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On the Joys of Fowl Conduct
barnyard bliss
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On the Road with Condi and George
Chinese checkers, anyone?
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on the same wavelength
surfing through life
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On the State of Motherhood in My Neighborhood
cute, cuddly...killed!
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Ondine
pondering a myth... or is it?
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one-up on taking-down
his god’s better’n your god!
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Open Access
on being pervious
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Open Wounds
a letter to my mother/grandmother
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Optional Delusions
wishful sinking
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Over My Head in the Deep End
they say crying clears the sinuses [or something]
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Over The Limit
sometimes, too much is just too much
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paradox
why are humans not humane?
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peacocks in need of a mirror
birds of a feather...
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Pecking Order: Law of the Coop
fowl behavior
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Pest Control
cosmic fly-swatters
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Pet-Lovers?
how do YOU define ’love’?
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Poetic Justice II
mental sun block
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Pointless Pursuits
...of dreamers ’n schemers
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Poisoning Your Kids’ Alphabet Soup
drugs, not hugs?
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Public Enemy #1
me!
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puffy puckers ‘n siliconed suckers
semi-x-rated stock tip
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Punk-tuation Perversion
[with apologies to the spirit of Joyce Kilmer]
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Reality Fix
testing... 1...2...3
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reverse psychology
minimizing marital mayhem
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Rights of Passage
our world’s disenfranchised: its children
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round peg in a square hole
thank goodness!
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Say, “Geez!”
on overfeeding warped egos
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Seen From Afar
a Kirilian view of humankind’s habitat
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Selective Might
God’s selective hearing problem
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Shangri-la Unfound
stubborn, stupid... or just plain nuts?
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Silent Send-Off
no words from me at graveside
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Slept Through Your Wake-Up Call?
bits of fun with the alphabet and numbers...
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Spinach Has No Mother
consequences of inter-kingdom cannibalism
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Sticks ‘n Stones... & Broken Bones
...but names will never hurt me? Just don’t call me "human"!
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Taking Inventory
whatcha got?
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The Swells On The Boat Deck
settling up, when the cruise is over
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The Uninvolved:
if only they’d care enough to get them back
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the villain as uber-hero
societal mayhem
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There’s Safety In Numbness
where’s that novacaine?
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They Toll For Thee... and Me
...when we go to our just rewards
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Thoughts on Thinking
pondering wondering
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Till Death Us Do Part
in the vernacular of my Irish ancestry
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Time’s Up!
doomsday’s just around the corner, folks (I hope!)
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To Some I Over-Coddled
…tho’ already hard-boiled & scrambled!
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Today’s Dilemma (Wednesday April 18, 2007)
on ’selective sorrow’
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truth and consequences
no, not the town in New Mexico
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try, try, again!?
what makes you think things’ll be different next time?
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Un-Balanced Accounts
tilt!
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Un-limited Choice
I’ve no choice at all, really
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Vain Glory
and nothing much gained
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Warning: Bio-Hazard!
being fair to all E.T.’s
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Welcome to “America, the Bible-Bound”!
our new anthem
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What’s Not in a Name?
obama’s osama dilemma
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Who Pays?
papal pomp and pitiful circumstances
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Who’s Primitive?
who’re you callin’ stupid, Stupid?
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Without Thorns
friends and roses
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woman... personified
which is what, exactly?
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Woman’s Place
where is it?... like that 1,000 lb gorilla, girls... ANY-bleepin’-where we want!
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