It’s called “Aint It Awful,” but we need someone to write the music.  Would a jazzy dirge be appropriate!?  Maybe to the likes of “Clementine”:  O my darlin’, O my darlin’,  O my darlin’ Clementine, are you here or gone forever, aint it awful, Clementine?

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(I wrote we, but it’s just me, despite the start of an unfinished poem begun last night–or early this morning:)

DEEP THINKING

I know I’m me, but

is that a good thing?

What if I was we?

Could we weather

the storm?

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WOODENTLY IT BE NICE….I read that …

fallout from  soldiers’ artillery fire can sicken them….If this was true for all troops, everywhere?  Written with empathy for man/woman kind.

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2023 was the warmest (as in hot) ever, according to those who measure such things.  Could that have anything to do with tempers?  –“At least the hottest in 100,000 years.”  Can we not cool our tempers down a tad during the current cold spell?  The coming summer is, alas, another day.  (ALTHOUGH another source says it was the hottest in the last 150 years.  Who the heck has trouble counting?  Don’t have time to run it down, but somebody ought to. Grump grump.

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QUOTATION…From The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm:  “Brotherly love is based on the experience that we all are one.  The differences in talents, intelligence, knowledge [and race and religion and nationality]   are negligible  in comparison with the identity of the human core  common to all men. In order to experience this identity it is necessary to penetrate from the periphery to the core….”  pg 46