beechwood 45789's Diaries (page 3)
Poem of the Day: "Spiritual Distress" by Hédi Kaddour
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Beechwood 45789 (Sun Jun 15, 2008 at 07:20:11 AM EST) (
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"Don't wander too far off, distress, and start to giggle
because what comes next is a riddle."
(3 comments, 184 words in story)
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Poem of the Day: "I cease not from desire" by Hafiz
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Beechwood 45789 (Sat Jun 14, 2008 at 07:13:05 AM EST) (
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"Each curling lock of thy luxuriant hair
Breaks into barbed hooks to catch my heart,
My broken heart is wounded everywhere."
(1 comment, 356 words in story)
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Poem of the Day: "Ode III.2" by Horace
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Beechwood 45789 (Fri Jun 13, 2008 at 07:06:27 AM EST) (
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"Honorable and sweet to die for one's country,
Since death doesn't spare the deserter either
Nor the boy without a warrior's instinct
Who goes down with his back and tendons slashed."
(3 comments, 266 words in story)
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Poem of the Day: "In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Beechwood 45789 (Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 06:54:03 AM EST) (
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"Heaped up
groaning with babies and bayonets
under cement skies."
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Poem of the Day: "Aubade" by Philip Larkin
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Beechwood 45789 (Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 06:19:16 AM EST) (
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"This is a special way of being afraid."
(6 comments, 387 words in story)
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Poem of the Day: "A Précis or Memorandum of Civil Power" by Geoffrey Hill
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Beechwood 45789 (Tue Jun 10, 2008 at 06:23:09 AM EST) (
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"Time turns sincerity to false witness
abetted by
our clear-headed stupidities; on occasion
a kind of brutishness conferred as love."
(2 comments, 891 words in story)
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Poem of the Day: "How the Favourite Beat Us" by Banjo Paterson
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Beechwood 45789 (Mon Jun 09, 2008 at 06:43:13 AM EST) (
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"They breed 'em at Hexham, it's risky to vex 'em."
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Poem of the Day: "The Star Market" by Marie Howe
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Beechwood 45789 (Sun Jun 08, 2008 at 07:42:21 AM EST) (
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"The feeble, the lame, I could hardly look at them:
shuffling through the aisles, they smelled of decay, as if the Star Market
had declared a day off for the able-bodied."
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Poem of the Day: "Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy" by Thomas Lux
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Beechwood 45789 (Sat Jun 07, 2008 at 02:42:14 PM EST) (
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"If you believe there is justice,
a reward for not loving the death of ugly and even dangerous (the eel, hog snake,
rats) creatures, if you believe these things . . ."
(3 comments, 217 words in story)
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Poem of the Day: "You Know What I’m Saying?" by Irving Feldman
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Beechwood 45789 (Fri Jun 06, 2008 at 07:02:15 AM EST) (
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"Whichever way – hey, for you they're all okay."
(5 comments, 159 words in story)
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