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While vile mutants still draw breath, there can be no peace. While obscene heretics’ hearts still beat, there can be no respite. While faithless traitors still live, there can be no forgiveness. Catechism of Hate Verse I of XXV. Silver Skulls
Another Awkward Stage Of Convalescence
Drunk, I kissed the moon
where it stretched on the floor.
I’d removed happiness from a green bottle,
both sipped and gulped
just as a river changes its mind,
mostly there was a flood in my mouth
BOB HICOCK
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/another-awkward-stage-of-convalescence/
Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 – 1954), Thursday 29 July 1954
Convalescence
Underneath a tree I lie,
Watching with lack lustre eye,
All those little trivial things
Weakness after sickness brings;
Watching birds flit to and fro;
Watching how the grasses grow;
Watching how the leaves and trees
Blend in Autumn harmonies
And wise insects, taught by God,
Build their shelters in the sod.
Oh, how low the pride of men
Falls and grovels meekly, when
Convalescence comes at last
After long borne sufferings past,
E’en the arrogance of pain
That strange vanity – is vain
And he lies, a stricken thing,
Bereft of even suffering.
All is gone – the pain, the pride;
Arrogance is laid aside.
And he owes all things he’d do
To some worthier being, who,
Out of charity, shall seek
To assist the helpless weak
Out of charity to lend
Splendid strength he is to spend.
So beneath the tree I lie,
Reading with a languid eye
Views of that and views of this
In a world so long amiss,
And, by some strange alchemy,
Suddenly it seems to me
That, as Earth’s wild turmoils cease,
Comes convalescence now and peace.
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Relevailles home
Description: perinatal assistant or aide-mom went to the mother’s home in the weeks after giving birth to a half-day to listen, encourage, inform, answer questions, support in the the organization of daily life (food, maintenance) and offer respite.
If yuh nah get wing, nah ah guh a bird sport.
If you feel that you do not belong somewhere you should not go there. Also, if you are unable to do something, you should not do it.
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“Like a parakeet, that says what he knows but doesn’t know what he says”
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
– Albert Schweitzer
The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.
Frederick Speakman
“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 