friday

1- It’s easier to suffer in silence if you are sure someone is watching you. – Anon

2- good intentions
aren’t enough if they are
never acted out.

3- Ever notice how Trump only sounds
intelligent when reading from prepared
scripts but like a sixth grader without one?
(didn’t mean to insult sixth graders)

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thursday

1- When all else fails, read the instructions. – Agnes Allen

2- The never wrong of some,
just misinformed as they
go on being right.

3- Trump and Barr,
two chubby white guys,
pretending to care
between their lies;
empty vessels,
empathy a foreign concept.

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wednesday

1- Life is too important to be taken seriously. – Oscar Levant

2- the special of some;
always an excuse for their
always being late.

3- Pence’s value to Trump
can best be summed up as
monkey see, monkey do.

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tuesday

1- Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas

2- in my dreams
she is not, and has
never been, the others. she
is always just she.

3- U.S.A.
where liberty
is just a statue (Nicanor Parra)

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monday

1- Nothing matters very much and very few things matter at all. – Arthur James Balfour

2- I stand before her
waiting for a locked door
to open just a bit.

3- The opacity
of Trump’s transparency is
blinding us to truth.

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sunday

1- Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. – Susan Ertz

2- why was last night’s dream
filled with multiplication
tables? did I pass?

3- Freedom of speech guarantees
us the right to lie even if
we know it’s a lie. It
bothers people with a conscience
but it certainly doesn’t bother
your president, Trump.

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saturday

1- The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. – Virginia Woolf

2- the barbed wire fence
of some relationships, not
seen till blood is drawn.

3- Has anyone done a
survey to see if more sorting
machines and mail boxes
have been taken out and/or
dismantled from blue states
than red states? (just curious.)

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friday

1- I don’t drink. I don’t like it. It makes me feel good. – Oscar Levant

2- excuse my absence.
I was living, not writing
about living.

3- Yo, Trumpers! Do you ever think
that someday your children or
grandchildren might one day ask,
what was democracy like?

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thursday

1- When a pair of magpies fly together
They do not envy the pair of phoenixes – Lady Ho

2- almost a sunset
but for the absence of sun,
so what was it?

3- How the RNC
sees the pandemic…
it was, sort of,
now it isn’t.
All gone!

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wednesday

1- Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. – Mark Twain

2- some gallery shows
have no stopping points.
they’re like speed-reading.

3- Spirit of ’76
I’m witnessing what I thought
I’d never see on
American national TV:
an American Mussolini,
an American Hitler and
his fawning minions,
running for reelection,
maybe our last.
I’m glad I’m 76!

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