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CH-IMP

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I went to Primate School

I wasn't cool

The kids were cruel

No Golden Rule

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LEAVE THEM ALONE

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Picking at flaws and defects

Only succeeds

In creating bigger flaws and defects

Open wounds

That take longer to heal

Are more noticeable

Not good

If you have a flaw or defect

Work on cultivating the remedy

Leave the flaw to heal

Undisturbed

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MY SPORTS LIFE

I like watching curling

It is played with brooms and rocks

Looks like slow motion shuffleboard

In case regular shuffleboard is too fast paced

I do not have to worry

That anyone will get hurt

Unless they accidentally drop a curling stone

On their toe

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BLUEPRINT

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My favorite room

Is wiggle room

I pass through it on my way

To the room for improvement

Which is so vast it boggles the imagination

I try to get to the room for improvement every day

And tidy up something in there.

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INCONCLUSIVE

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I have seen ideas I thought were terrible

Have a terrific outcome

And Ideas I thought were terrific

Have a terrible outcome

I have seen well-intentioned efforts backfire

Causing more harm

I have seen ill-intentioned efforts backfire

Causing harm to the one trying to do wrong

So, the springs are missing

From my conclusion-jumpers now

I stand unmoving and alert

Hardly knowing what to think

About most everything

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UNQUENCHED

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Tears will not put out the fire

That burns in the bosom of one who has been grievously wronged

Booze will not wash it away

It will not blow away like dust 

Or be swallowed down and digested

No, the only thing that can put out the fire

In the bosom of one who has been grievously wronged

Is the consolation of philosophy

The soothing balm of understanding

On the edges of the burn zones

Until one day there is just a scorched area

Where the fire once raged with menace and fury

A charred place where gradually something new can take root

Send up a tiny hopeful shoot and begin to fill with life's promise 

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THE ELECTION OF 1860

The city slickers played stump the bumpkins

But the bumpkins were not stumped

Honest Abe was elected

The slicker? He was dumped. 

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