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Poem of the day: ulcerous
This is my poetic oracle.It's been with me for a while.A friend said in an e-mail today that he enjoyed my "optimistic" poems. I guess my oracle decided to counteract the sweetness ...Requests for...
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Poem of the day: couch
Today I learned something about the word "couch."And I felt silly. Hence this "masterpiece."This Underwood Champion came to me from Venezuela. It has elite spacing (12 cpi), but the characters are...
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Poem of the day: pebbles
On Instagram this morning, I showed off my folding Hammond.I got a request there to write the day's poem on this machine.OK! I put in a fresh ribbon, cleaned the machine, and found that a wide strip of...
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Poem of the day: totem pole & typewriter of the day: Signature 440T
Today I used my newest typewriter acquisition, a Montgomery Ward Signature 440T, made in Japan by Brother in 1968.It's technically the second variation of Brother's JP-1 design. The little JP-1's took...
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Poem of the day: justification
Don't give me too much credit for cleverness—this took a few tries!
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Poem of the day: the whoopty-doo bird
I almost delayed too long and failed to write a poem today! But here it is, just in time to give the world some unwanted doggerel.My wife gave me the topic for today's poem. There is a bird in our...
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Poem of the day: tolerant
To vary the rules of the game (hey, I made the rules, I can vary them) I turned not to Webster's, but to my collection of novels by Harry Stephen Keeler, and played the Sortes Keelerianae.I know, not...
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Poem of the day: fog
This is my final poem for National Poetry Month—and for the first time, I really managed to write some poetry on every single day of the month. I don't claim it was all good! Thanks to all the readers...
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