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I read in an article at the time of the civil war the term "soilder's heart" was coined to descibe the physchological pain suffered by many of the surviriors of the war. There was something about the phrase which struck me as profoundly beautiful, and I was inspired to write this for my dearly beloved who served in the Iraq war.

A Solider's Heart

I see the pain in your eyes
soundless depths
more than words can say,
and my soul quakes, ...

So it’s twelve o’clock and my son and I are watching a movie. It’s not one I’m enjoying particularly. Four attractive American kids have traveled into the countryside to visit some ruins. A crazed man appears and shoots one of them, after which they are held hostage, or to put it in the words of one of them, “quarantined.” There is, it seems, a plant, which is more than just a plant, and I don’t really need to see the rest to know where this is going.

I don’t care though. I have just ...

It was a bit past 12 midnight and I was waiting for my computer to finish its virus scan, because it does automatic scans a few times a week, but sometimes I get annoyed with them and cancel them before it finishes, so I hadn't had a complete scan all last week so I thought I should wait for it finish up before closing down for the night.

There was pretty much nothing else going on and I was just hanging out waiting on it, when I heard this noise outside, it was some kind of animal, ...

Whole as the blank window
That allows it to slip through
A silhouette appears below
Ghe cord from which it grew.

The moonlight chuckles down in glee
At the eerie sight
Of lovers flailing trysts to be
In the travellng night.

One shadow to a hundred drifts
In glistening mystery
To solve the universe's shifts
In virtual reverie.

The dance goes on, relentless, balks,
Buckles at the shock ...

4. A Desperate Search

With the return of Marbles the cat I hope peace is restored to Casa Mtpspur (little knowing the end of the day and its tragic loss to come though I had some foreknowledge of it and should have seen the very clear warning given this morning) as I have two projects to accomplish today.

The first involves showing up for a doctor's appointment I had to reschedule from last month when the IRS liened my wages to where I didn't have $50 for a blood ...