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Jacob Sinclair's avatar

I got grandpas matches. Howard Johnson matches. They probably older than I am. For when the bbq lighter finally the breaks, there is my grandpas’.

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Richard Wells's avatar

I do believe, Hope in baggy black and rainbow hair rides a skateboard. Well done, Bret.

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Tom Walls's avatar

Good one!

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Arthur Rosch's avatar

Er...I think you've gone clinical, Bret. The question I have is: should I become equally insane in my individuality? You know, nostalgia isn't what it used to be...

As always the writing is extensively erudite and showing a certain ineluctable hipness that cannot be quashed! BTW, the other commentors. I should stay away from such folk unless they can show some credentials.

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STUART LESTER's avatar

Is this Desolation Row? I see someone else commented that.

"Music is the healing Force of the Universe"- Albert Ayler

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George M's avatar

Descendant of Wordsworth's "The world is too much with us," I must agree. Trump and his fellow tyrants and near-tyrants have all the attention, headlines that bleed and explode. But here come the friends and families of Hope. I've demonstrated with them, signed their petitions, phoned the passive accepters of disinformation in Congress and my state house. We outnumber those who polish the apples of flattery. I'm confident, sooner than later good trouble will make good news.

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Justin E. Schutz's avatar

Talk about Groucho meets Trane…. I think this might be George Carlin meets Malcolm X in another layer of the afterlife. You rocked it again! So good, thank you.

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Ricky Schultz's avatar

Desolation Row, the remix. Bob would approve.

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Michael Jefry Stevens's avatar

Thanks you Bret. This war on Iran is making it difficult to stay positive!!!!!! All the best,

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Manuela Thiess Garcia's avatar

Had me in hysterics and reading it aloud to my husband. Ridicule is a potent defense, and this one, with its ever inventive metaphors serves as a primer for how potent sarcasm can ridicule!

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Manuela Thiess Garcia's avatar

Had me in hysterics and reading it aloud to my husband. Ridicule is a potent defense, and this one, with its ever inventive metaphors serves as a primer for how potent sarcasm can ridicule!

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Manuela Thiess Garcia's avatar

Had me in hysterics and reading it aloud to my husband. Ridicule is a potent defense, and this one, with its ever inventive metaphors serves as a primer for how potent sarcasm can ridicule!

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Manuela Thiess Garcia's avatar

Had me in hysterics and reading it aloud to my husband. Ridicule is a potent defense, and this one, with its ever inventive metaphors serves as a primer for how potent sarcasm can ridicule!

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Manuela Thiess Garcia's avatar

Had me in hysterics and reading it aloud to my husband. Ridicule is a potent defense, and this one, with its ever inventive metaphors serves as a primer for how potent sarcasm can ridicule!

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