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Hot summer sun & long lazy days
Of picnic's past in the Wyre Forest.
Time drags when you're just a young boy
With relatives & cousins cramping your style.
I had this urge to run away & explore the world
Free of benches, litter bins & boundaries
Parents & forestry commissions.

Then I found it: A wire fence
Cunningly hidden in deciduous green;
A nursery for young trees.
A private playground ...

Yes, I went book shopping again, one of the hazards of living somewhere that has a lot of oppertunities for cheap books.

The Soul Slayer ~ Paul Doherty

The Dean's December ~ Saul Bellow

Darwinia ~ Robert Charles Wilson

Slaughterhouse-Five ~ Kurt Vonnegut

The Tin Drum ~ Gunter Grass

It’s easier to meet someone when you’re going to them, not they coming to you. I think I understand now why Rich called me more than once before we got to his place. I was as excited as a kid in a candy shop since the moment I woke up in New Jersey. I really wanted to see Virgil!

Well, we decided to drive in to NY, wanting to see Ground Zero, Ellis Island, and Lady Liberty. We originally had a lot more sites we wanted to see, but the traffic driving through NY the day before had scared ...

Happy Fourth of July, for those who live in the United States.

For everyone, the following is a tribute to all who died in a war anywhere, whether they were on a battlefield or not. It is based on a true story.


He had been happy once
With optimistic eyes
And plans
Which led him
To a war and comrades
And days spent
Sweating and hot,
Searching for
Death, leashed

Until the day
he spent ...

I am getting so tired of feeling no motivation to do anything, I hardly read or write these days. I have to get myself out of this, finish don Quixote and start reading the dozens of books I have on my to do list... a few months ago I got a small book with many of shakespeare's plays laid out for kids and I want to read it for my boy soon, he needs to learn about the classics. I have a shakespeare action figure, his 'weapons' are a book and a feather pen, Gummi loves it but he is not allowed to ...