From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

ladyinwaiting~ well, this applies today: "out of groceries, out of sorts, time to get myself in gear and get out of here for some chow. I'd complain, but I think I've just done it :). Hope the glue is holding with you. Hang in there. ONE thing is always certain. (Like tanq's tontine, do we want to be the last one standing?) The rest is an adventure or torture, reading life written by Nabokov or Seusse, enjoying our friends or cutting ourselves loose. Rehearse it, or free verse it. Life will always change. Sometimes the flip-side is better, or more disarranged." (to loosely quote myself from something written years ago). Have we said it All when we start repeating or quoting ourselves? I've felt better ... and you? ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

dear editer and publixher, iffin I has miss spelt any wurds, plez dont feels your oblige'd...obligete'd, poop ... need to pay me fur 'em. I reelize my puncheachion is g'awful ... and my Grammar swore she wood wash my mouth out wid soap fer cussin. I 'poligise in advance (I kind spelt dat wurd aftur askin fer an "advance" sooooo muy mucho timez. I ain't got no father excuses, but I DID meet yer sorry DEADLINE ..... Maggie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

dear editur~ why pick on me? No I dont now were URL is. He ran off wit my 3rd double cuzin cordian to my mom. Wut kinda morris code is that www.dictionary.com post-it you left on my desk? And NO I hasnt gone to a dakairy bar! The place is BLENDER for righters. Yes I knoed you gived me a dicionary fer gratewayshun. URL put it undur one lag of my headbored to levell it. Thanxs to you I due get a grate knight's sleep every knight I aint worring ... woryin ... heckfire ... fret in bout NO DEADLINE ..... Maggie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

dear publicker ... publixher... Sir~ sorry about all the eclipses in my rightin. I is tring, tryin ta quit ... And BLENDER is so a place fer poem righters. Dat editur is jest try in ta make me luk bad. It is NOT a bunch o "right-wingers" liek he said. I tole 'em it was a place fer righters. Dat stuff bout poly ticks or poly tics is jest rong. I will go back n prove him rong soon as I get done wid this batch of obitz he's makin me right. Now THESE folks made a DEADLINE ..... Maggie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

Poyen_fpy,<BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.01.00.16.6723">self-absorbed</a><BR>
really touching...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

Rennie; I want some of what you been drinking out there in the woods haha or did you make your own?<BR>
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Sush; Consenting adults is one thing and CHILDREN quite another. When we fail or forget to protect them we are going completely in the wrong direction. <BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

B.K.~ nah, all I've got is some V8. Revenuers blew-up the four-barrel 'still so long ago that it'd be safer to drink 'shine from an antique radiator IF we knew how to make it, and the water in the creek was still safe. All these fish belly-up in it tell me it ain't. I was trying to write last night, with the tree frogs singing like Sting on a case of Jolt, or Blenderites after Kirk for the new Digest. I was gonna make a deadline when the Verizon Man called me four times with that "can you hear me now" bit. I thought it was the editor or publisher playing one on me to see I didn't win a bet with them. I invited this "Verizon" guy over. It may have been the V8 that's a bit ripe after I left it in the truck overnight. I'm still writing this morning, and he can't hear me now; he needs CPR ..... Maggie (hush, Maggie!) ...... Maggie (back in your box, Maggie!) ..... Rennie :)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

Rens: HAHAHAHAHA you make me laugh so hard. The last stil I saw was way out in them there hills and the guy burning it had one tooth and a spittoon and he could hit that thing all the way across the porch. Dead eye one tooth I called him. He laughed but mom and dad didn't think it was very funny and kept telling me to be quiet and quit asking what that strange thing in the back yard was that was burning and smelling so strange. They said we were kin to him somehow but I never got the jest of it how.<BR>
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Misti Honey Pie hang in there, the SIMPLE things are all that matter. Write about it all and let the rest fall down your back like water off goose down. The idiots drain your energy, look for things that give you bliss.<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

B.K.~<BR>
(((((HUGS)))))))<BR>
thanks tons, I needed that.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

Honey Pie you know we all love you here and you can come to us with it anytime. You take good care of Yourself! By the way, I love all your collections. You should see all the strange stuff I have around here ha (I collect too) I think I have a million baskets and about that many tablecloths and then there's the antique books and pictures and frames. If I bring home one more I am going to die of dust mites ha but there's one more in the back seat of my car right now just itching to get in..sigh (when will I learn)<BR>
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bk<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">CryingShame58</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

Rennie,<BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.02.00.29.25360">EDUCATED SIMPLE MAN</a> really struck me in a good sense...I am married to what is known as a "BUBBA"...Some educated people think and feel they are superior to him because of his lack of knowledge of book smarts...this gets in the way of knowing the WISE man that he is...also, anyone can learn something from someone else, because I have never met someone who knows everything...just known those that THINK they know everything...ya know what I mean, jelly bean?<BR>
Pam
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.02.05.58.7794">Positions Please</a> .... bk .... you have a gift for giving your work catchy titles....i like the title and especially that it fits the poem so perfectly..<BR>
Ladyinwaiting...<BR>
have fun, fun, fun!<BR>
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Dana,<BR>
Hope you have a wonderful holiday!  I will be thinking of you...Stay safe..<BR>
Pam
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1174">Dana</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

Pam: Thanks! I wish the same to you. - Dana
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1174">Dana</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

Misti: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.02.04.10.30788">Snarl</a> I feel you. Do you happen to live in Indiana? - Dana<BR>
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poyen_fpy: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.01.00.16.6723">self-absorbed</a>: wow! excellent piece. nicely written<BR>
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BIGDADDY: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.01.01.24.4396">The Goddess Garden</a> and <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.01.01.39.3981">Goddess Garden Revisited</a> absolutely beautiful. Your Lonna is lucky to have you.<BR>
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Crystal: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.01.10.30.5921">Hiding</a> great piece. I can relate. <BR>
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Rennie: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.02.00.29.25360">EDUCATED SIMPLE MAN</a> amazing work, as usual. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=962">Lulu</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

Dana- Another Great poem <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.02.12.47.19045">Because Of You</a>, I Know that feeling too well. I Love your work and I think I can relate to it. Take Care.<BR>
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Loren
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">Galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

Ok...I normally DON'T TOOT my own horn...but this is too cool....<BR>
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I found out today I was the Featured Poet for July at Kookamonga Sqaure...very cool site---my god...they have had LYN LIFSHIN...so pay me a visit, please?<BR>
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And thanks Tanq...Echo...you guys are the very coolest!<BR>
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<a href="http://www.geocities.com/paris/tower/9556">http://www.geocities.com/paris/tower/9556</a> <BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

Pam and Dana~ :) Thanks! Pam, I see you just keep stretching and turning corners here. Good for you! Same with you, Dana. I'm glad to be able to read ya from the beginning of posting at Blender. See some of your old works. Watch you deal with life. Always good to see a writer stretch and grow.<BR>
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Gala~ mega-congrats for being featured along with the likes of CE and Lifshin! I hope folks here realize what an accomplishment that is for you ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

GALA GALA GALA!<BR>
YOU GO GIRL! CONGRATULATIONS! thanks for sharing your good news...your work and contributions are tremendous...so happy for you!<BR>
Pam
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

To Jiggy and Misti,<BR>
 <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.02.06.27.8996">Meet Me at The Gates</a>, <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.02.05.57.6508">Mnemosyne's PooL</a> and <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.02.04.10.30788">Snarl</a> are soul shaking.<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

BK,<BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.02.18.30.24352">Gone With the Wind</a> wow!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1286">pebblesandjoe</a><BR>
Date: 2 July 2003<P>

Everyone that reads poems by kala or pebblesandjoe please leave a comment i need to know if i'm really good at this or not so please be kind and tell me what ya think later kala
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