Twenty-Nine
Posted on February 29, 2012 by CHC   ᐃ ᐁ 
If I don't tell you what I'm doing,
I have my doubts you would ever find out.
Am I your mystery worth pursuing
or just some rhyme for twenty-nine?

If I could climb upon the framework
 you build around you, as if it were your soul,
 and looked inside, what would I find?
Some somethingness or only twenty-nine?

There are times I see the present
 but so rarely am I there, then barely.
 Maybe I'll open that wine you sent:
 a fine wine, not some cheap twenty-nine.

God help me if there were a God
looking down to assess this terrible mess --
He would dispatch his thunder as his sign
how displeased he is with twenty-nine.
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Sentenced to Death
Posted on February 25, 2012 by CHC   ᐃ ᐁ

Hello out there.  I’ve been thinking.  My sentences?  Too long.  Way too long.  Too many subordinate clauses.  Too many fancy words.  Like “subordinate.”  And “clause.”

I’m no professor.  Why talk like one?  Really.  Three, four words max.  It’s all you need.  Word, word, word, period.  There you go.  Long sentences suck.  Short ones rock.

And paragraphs.  Don’t get me started.  A waste of time.  Space too.  Just look at Tolstoy.  No minimalist, he.  War and Peace?  Thirteen hundred pages.  Way too long.  Get real.  Bolkonsky, Drubetskoy, Kutuzov, Rostova.  Four paragraphs right there.  Oh, my eyelids.

So, concise is nice.  So long, long.

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Onward Dogmatic Soldiers
Posted on February 22, 2012 by CHC   ᐃ ᐁ

Just sharing some Google search statistics.

•   “Militant Muslim” — 301,000 results.
•   “Militant Atheist” — 174,000 results.
•   “Militant Christian” — 96,500 results.
•   “Militant Israeli” — 28,600 results.
•   “Militant Catholic” — 26,400 results.
•   “Militant Protestant” — 24,400 results.
•   “Militant Buddhist” — 14,300 results.
•   “Militant Jew” — 4,630 results.

I see this list as a fear gauge.  I’m surprised that atheists were only in second place.

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