saturday

1- The greatest of faults … is to be conscious of none. – Thomas Carlyle

2- I often wonder
how tall apple trees would grow
if they weren’t pruned.

3- Enough Trump for now
and hopefully forever.
Can he ever leave?

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thursday

1- The surest way to lose a friend is to tell him something for his own good. – Sid Ascher

2- go with the flow and
don’t stop until it leaves.
it’s not always there.

3- Venezuela or
some other third world power.
Yesterday couldn’t have happened here.
This is Trump’s legacy.
Let it die with his leaving
and let us go beyond it.

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wednesday

1- What you get free costs too much. – Jean Anouilh

2- younger, I read them all, to say I had.
older now, I know in sentences not to go on,
no longer trying to impress,
rather just to enjoy.

3- Time for Article 25.
If Trump knows he lost the
election, it’s sedition or treason.
If he really believes he won,
it’s delusion.

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tuesday

1- The further one pursues knowledge, the less one knows. – Lao-Tzu

2- too often I enter
a room asking, why am I here?
what did I want?

3- What’s next in Trump’s line
of desperate moves; more
manly pleading?

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monday

1- Nothing is permanent but change. – Heraclitus

2- sometimes you don’t
find it until you stop looking.
this happens often.

3- How long before we once
again become the “United” States
of America … if ever?

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saturday

1- The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. – E. Hubbard

2- the middle of the day
is a variable.
ask shift workers.

3- Senators or
enablers? God and country
first or self interests.
After all, the primary
job of any elected official
is to get reelected, all else
be damned.

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friday

1- If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up. – Eda Leshan

2- I’ve often tried to
be sure my motives were pure
in some matters of art.

3- How many senators
will grow a spine when it’s
time to name Biden president?

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thursday

1- Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else. – Fred Rogers

2- I’m so glad to have
grown up in New York City.
Now I don’t have to.

3- Pandemic
Dope Rope Nope
HOPE

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wednesday

1- If I had my life to live again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. – Tallulah Bankhead

2- and then, seeing it
anew, I saw the dance in
an explosion of lines.

3- Trump is running out of days
but not out of spineless wannabes
willing to lie hoping to ingratiate
themselves to a man who demands
loyalty but doesn’t honor it.
Watch out for the bus!

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tuesday

1- With regard to ham and eggs: The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. – Anonymous “80’s Axiom

2- do some of us have
another other we hide
from the world?

3- Trump begins his
“president in exile” stint
even before his time is up.

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