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Whoa! Need a new blog post desperately! Don't have much to say, except I'm tired as hell...keep falling asleep where I sit. Can't wait for Christmas vacation!

Oh, and I love Blues Traveler and I love Bob Marley...so, Blues Traveler covering Bob Marley I really love! Here's a video of Blues Traveler, with Ziggy Marley, covering Bob Marley's 'No Woman No Cry'.

When I wrote this poem, I was thinking about my job, my workplace. But I was also thinking of the trickster character in folklore around the world, and the meaning of someone crossing the line on purpose, to break barriers and pretense and image and prejudice. So, here you go!

Jester

They had no idea
that I was Heyoka.
They're frantic with panic
and I'm...
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In need of a new blog post.

The latest, you might say, is I helped test some friends from the Dojo for their black belts. Pretty cool, and I do believe I'll have pictures of it. My sister is a photographer and she took pictures, just needing to get the disc and hoping it'll work on my computer, so I can post pictures of the...
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Well, first of all, I didn't get to go to the fashion show that I talked about going to, you know the one that the cool cute hippie girl was doing; I didn't make it because I had no transportation. To top it off, I haven't seen her on the bus for weeks, so I haven't had a chance to explain myself; remember she was...
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Thought I'd write up a new blog post so everyone doesn't think I've been sick for two weeks straight (since my last post said I was sick). Fact is, I do have a lingering cough, and today I had some stomach issues that sent me running to the bathroom at work. I'm feeling better though.

An issue on my mind currently: A cool friend of...
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So, first of all I'm sick: Fever, body aches, coughing, cold sweat, congestion, the whole nine. In addition, I've recently been threatened with eviction from my apartment. The resident manager is a tyrannical lout. We went over his head. I do believe it is going to be alright.

The only reason I mention the sickness and eviction is because it sort of sets the stage...
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Your Nuremberg Defense

I break through
your Nuremberg Defense.
I obliterate the barrier
by having no pretense.
You are clogged up arteries
of authority and rule.
I am perception and feeling
and you're just a tool.

You go 9 to 5
and you're happy as a lamb.
Sheep will follow anyone
even if it leads to logjam.
You never smile
unless the boss says so....
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Over the weekend a friend of mine called me. We trained in martial arts together and are good friends, he's got a degree in English, I believe. He's adapted a screenplay to be a play, and has a director and is ready to get it rolling. Well, I'd talked to him some time ago, he knows I had at one time been a theater arts...
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Fight Scene

It beats me, I'm battered
abused by these bullies,
with bestial patterns
I'm swung by their pulleys.

The pleasure they pull
out of pain that I'm feeling,
forever whenever they sever
my flow when I'm reeling.

Stifling, trifling, tricky
they treat me
with envy they beat me,
compete to defeat me.

Completely un-called for,
they're callous and cold,
I unfold and I blossom...
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