~ * An Assembly ...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal,

that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life,

Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen
United States of America

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm

Twittering One said:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal,

that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life,

Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen
United States of America

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm

"It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away"
-U2

"Noo Cepseecoom dutes oon her
Lufeengly,

Neebbles effffecshunetely,
Cells her
Her Preceeuoos Moonchkeen frum Ooz.

Bork Bork Bork!

Un imperffect creeme-a,
A perffect sulooshun."
~ Mer Loleil

"C'est moi, votre puurrrrrrffect
Creeme Pufffff ~ ?"
~ Twittering

"Would you tell me please which way
I have to go from here?"
~ Alice

"That depends a good deal
On where you want to get to."
~ The Cat.

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, O,
Mon cher, oui, a very fine tale ~ Hear, mon cher,

Pull up a chair,
Let me read a very fluffy unravelling yarn to you ..."
~ Lewis Carroll

"A brilliant digression (See etching, page 36) took us by surprise
In a game that complimented (complicated?)
A starry night's constellation ~You realize,

You're drafted ~ of recast narrative, deftly under-rated
Until we pause, look around, smell the fragrant cuisine.
A dinner party (Appetizer), guests explain! The soufflé impersonated

A deflated croquet player, as I chased a red ball (Alice said so!), an
extreme
Masquerade. The Garden Course (here's your mallet) graduated our
progress
Into smaller steps (decant the wine). "Come," I mean,

"Let me read you a starlit passage." A reason to digress.
Disembarking the lawn, we hailed the Page, framed with gold-leaf
Borders of verbena, primrose, and ivy. I redrafted the page, I
confess.

It was all for a kiss. A simple belief,
As we huddled (cuddled) upon a cushion, merely to leaf
Through our storybook, banishing yesterday's grief,

Kindled stars into literary relief ~

(Turn the page ~ !)."
~ Virginia Hooper

"Out here, abandon that would

Set us right ~ there's
Another! ~ to what we'd missed.
So much closer than one cares
Is whom we long to kiss."

~ JD McClatchy,

Quoted message said:

From "Perseid Shower,"
From "Stars Principal"

[p. 23]

"Twittering, I do, for I am a Twittering
My tale for you, for me,
A scribbler I be.

And as you surely see, scribble
I do ~ Both in silvered air, as well,
My silver screen.

And papyrus, too, knows my words ~ Reeds,
A Devlin, a very wise,
Clever gentleman, too,

My wood-winded instrument, my Orphic lyre,
Blewing
Wing ...

Mum said to me ..."
~ Twittering

"Writers write."
~ Anne Bernays

But, O, see?
Me, too, a writer, for many words
Now I write. My best, I do ~ But O,
Know ~ Whether my best be good enough for Thee,
I do not know.

Me, I just try to weather the weather,
My tossing sea, my frail vessel,
My letters to you ~

Raving, you,
Your honesty I require ~ Who,
You?"
~ Twittering

*

"Male for female, we all identify with Orpheus.
He is the one who feels overwhelmed by grief

.... More importantly, he is the one is alive.
But what about Eurydice?

Hers is the journey to death and forgetting.
In 'Orpheus. Eurydice.

Hermes.' Ranier Maria Rilke, a less optimistic fellow
Than Ovid, tells the story

Quoted message said:

From her point of view.

As the poem opens..."

~ Nancy Hathaway,

Quoted message said:

From "A Friendly Guide to Mythology"

[p. 259]

"But O, Ms.
Hathaway, indeed, I know, your booked account,
Recounts

Not your view, as here, between those covers,
You recount Rilke's

View of Eurydice, thusly ~ A medium,
A historian, you!

If all were told ~

Eurydice, or the Furry Dance, or just a pair
Of dice unrolled?

Or perhaps a hermetic seal broken, ripped open,
Light unleashed?

For all told, after

All points of view seen through ~
All persona accounted for,
All perspectives sited,

An insightful scene, a serious stage
Set

.... A
New mythology? As, you've aptly told

The old,
Our mythic history hitherto.

.... and what now,

If I told
You by telephone ~ Our past lights
Another constellation, a Starry

Principality?"
~ Twittering

*

"Raving,
Art Thou a stock character?"
~ Twittering

"... for the moment, a 'stock' character for sure,
I feel too haggard to be otherwise.

This is why I answered with a simple 'no'.
The richer possibility did cross my mind.

I chose to be dull about it."
~ Raving

"Richer,
Be what stock? Or select below, your preference,
Your essential stock statement.

Or does your poverty
Leave your feet bare,

Your stockings raveled, torn, or have revelers
Torn your soul asunder?

Or hung, you be from crucified
Stocks,

A tortured man or woman?
Or shorn,

Do you require a gym sock sweater,
As Leonardo sported?

For know! He I seek,
As well my Mother's shore."
~ Twittering

".. and, too, The Damn Apparently Sheep
Apparel store ~ !
~ Fobby

"It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away"
~ U2

"Set 2,
2 Tea Jody put Thee ~ !

Set the table for High Tea, 3.14 in the afternoon,

Apres another
Set of Croquet ~ !"
~ Mum

"Game, match. Love."
~ Master Dawson Minor Byrd

Read all over.
!Be Warned!

*** En Memento Spark & Mori ~ ! ~

Sign
Says ...

~ * Animal Crackers & Milk,
Just a little bit later * ~

"That Twittering chick
Nut hatch
Yet ~ ?"
~ Fobby

"Skybuck's universal code ~

Data bits: 0
Marker bits: 1

Interleaved data and markerbit ~
01

Bye."
~ Skybuck Flying

"Hey, dude ~ Recto,
Or verso?

Or a page correction, after rehearsal,
Or a digital photo reversal, for your Viagra commercial?"
~ Twittering

*

"How do we erase the stigma
Of an illness

So vicious, so brutal, and so costly,
So that people will no longer be embarrassed

Or afraid to get help,

Either for themselves,
Or the people they love?"
~ Danielle Steele

"Step One ~
Privacy.

As guaranteed
By Federal HIPAA Regulations."
~ Twittering

"You're a PIG
Cancro.

You're a PIG
Lenard Adler."
~ Folly

"And lastly ~

We met two cyber ~ bullied victims
Who opened up and shared
How the relentless torture they endured

Made their lives ~

Almost
Unbearable."
~ Hoofprints

"Don't ask,
Don't tell ~ ?

HELL NO ~ !"
~ Twittering

"PS ~
As a matter of interest is 'yes' & 'no' 'all
The same to you' too?

If so......how in *hell* do you make yourself
Understood to yourself,

Or others?
You don't, do you!"
~ //!!

11
6
3
4

"If you're upside down,
Floating on the ceiling, too high, well too nye
Too lost to be found

Safe and sound ~
O, yes, I know ~ No is Yes, and Yes, No.

1's, & O's,
A binary canary

Struggling desperately to survive,
Fallen too deeply down The Mind Shaft,
After fingers gripping windowsill got stepped on, damn
Window slammed, a stomping

Stampede, impeding
Boots stomping on your digits gripping desperately
For dire life ~

No life raft, just lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies,
lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies,
lies, lies, lies, lies,
lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies,
lies, lies, lies, lies,
lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies ...

O, yes, know ~ Lies
Become Truth, for, O, what difference, if all's lost,
No map speaks Truth truthfully?
All Relativity, you suggest?"
~ Zoe

"HELL KNOW,
No."
~ Marcus

"Too lost to be found, nor
None too safe and sound ~ For, too far gone

Round
The farther bend ~ O, yes, I know ~ Yes is No, and No, Yes,
Just ~

O's & 1's,
1's & O's, O, yes, I know, just ~

A binary canary,
A slivered byrd in flight ~ Silvering wings aflutter ...

Too much insight,
Too much light, an upwind, she flew, blew,
To light upon the earth, solid ground ~ !"
~ Folly

"... and round and round
She flies,

A spiral nebula she describes,
A Nouveau Universe inscribed, etching silver air ~ !"
~ Zoe

.... and along
Came Elroy, sporting a smile,

Light, seeking light,
Doth light of light beguile.

~ * ~

Light seeking light,
A Child of God ~

A Golden Thread
Sews an Illuminated Tapestry ...

Hail Thee ~ !

Sing Vivid Vivaldi Glorias
Vividly, Gloriously ~!

Hail Thee ~ !
Leonardo, Divine Canine ~ !

October 12, 1980,
An Iowa Puppy Farm ...

A Maltese Dog Was Born ~ !

Hail Thee ~ !
Leonardo, Divine Canine ~ !

He Who Rises
High to The Gates of Heaven ~!

Hail Thee ~ !
Leonardo, Divine Canine ~ !

~ ~ ~ ~ * ~
~ * Lupus in fabula ~ The wolf in the tale,
Speak of the wolf, & he will come.

~ * Lux et veritas ~
Light and Truth ~ !

~ * ~ ~ ~
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~ * ~

~ * ~

.... and along
Came Elroy, sporting a smile,

Light, seeking light,
Doth light of light beguile.

Light seeking light,
A Child of God ~

A Golden Thread
Sewing Illuminated Tapestry ...

Hail Thee ~ !

Sing
Vivid Vivaldi Glorias
Vividly, Gloriously, Joyously ~!

Hail Thee ~ !
Leonardo, Divine Canine ~ !

October 12, 1980,
On an Iowa Puppy Farm ...

A Maltese Dog Was Born ~ !

Hail Thee ~ !
Leonardo, Divine Canine ~ !

He Who Rises
High, Verily, to The Gates of Heaven ~!

Hail Thee
O Divine Puparoo,
O Leonardo, Divine Canine ~ !

A Divine Dog Barks Larks ~ !

Barks Vivid Vivaldi Glorias Vividly, Gloriously,
Joyously ~!

~ ~ ~ ~ * ~
~ * Lupus in fabula ~ The wolf in the tale,
Speak of the wolf, & he will come.

~ * Lux et veritas ~
Light and Truth ~ !

~ * ~ ~ ~
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"There is sorrow enough in the natural way

Quoted message said:

From men and women to fill our day;

But when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie ~
Perfect passion and worship fed
y a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head.
Nevertheless it is hardly fair
To risk your heart for a dog to tear.

When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits,
And the vet's unspoken prescription runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will find ~ it's your own affair
But . . . you've given your heart to a dog to tear."

~ Rudyard Kipling,

Quoted message said:

From "The Power of the Dog"

~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~
~ * ~
________________________________________
~ Barkley's Famous Dog Quotations ~
________________________________________
"'And your tippling craft,'
The captain asked, 'Fore or aft,
How does she happen to be balanced?'
The young dachshund flushed,
Marshaled his wits, but did not laugh,
His nostrils, on par, nonesuch,
His four paws rooted firmly on terra,
Or ship's dry footing. To the terrier,
The dachshund boldly replied,
'She happens to be ballasted under my nose,
On sacks of fresh Iambs, lots of clean kitty litter,
And shipshape Milk Bones.
My craft, alas, no, not off kilter!'"

~ Rudolph Nipping,

Quoted message said:

From "The Manner of the Norwegian

Elkhound"
_________________________________________
"Barkley's Famous Dog Quotations,"
16th ed., Pitter Pat Press,
New Ork City.
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A Morning Wood Publication
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~ * ~

"Last week wasn't too bad.
I got in a couple runs. Each 10 miles. (I know...)
~ Capsicum

"... and precisely
What do you think you know?

O alas, again I've misspelled 'misspells'
Is that what you meant,
Or perhaps, more like ~ Chant de Mint en Iced
T?

.... or, O Know? Bruno?
What use, this enchantment, you've spun round me?
Have you no Antidote? Me, yes, I see.

O so true ~ A grrl sporting her red silk petticoat,
Panties, too, on the prowl,

On the lookout,
Yes, true, too, an occasional howl,

Just a Babe
Escaped from Bettleheim's Wood,

Just a Babe seeking her lost Puparoo ~
Just a Babe en Danger, grief enraged,

Oak cask, decanting well ~ aged Wisdom,
Etherized Liquid Courage ~

Just a Babe en Danger, grief enraged,
Just a Babe seeking her lost Puparoo ~

Just a Babe
Escaped from Bettleheim's Wood,

Seeking The Higher Keys
A Waterford Goblet of Perrier Jouet
Brute Champagne ~ !

My clenched palm,
Clutching my Leonardo Christmas Cards ~ My photo,
My perfect picture of Leonardo, my imago,

My snapshot picturing
My Leonardo seated in his Bethlehem Manger,

His Golden Lemniscate Halo,
Levitating angelically overhead,
Over his straw bed.

Yes, O, so true, too,
Bite. Bite. Bite. An occasional howl, O,

I am

Just a Babe
Escaped from Bettleheim's Wood,

Just a Babe on the prowl,
Seeking her lost Puparoo ~ Occasional howl,

Grief enraged, seek her Furries,
The Higher Keys ~
Just a Babe en Danger ~ !

Cheers ~ !

Look what I stumble upon,
Oak cask, decanting well ~ aged Wisdom,
Etherized Liquid Courage ~

A Waterford Goblet of Perrier Jouet
Brute Champagne ~ !

My clenched palm, held on high,
Clutching my

Goblet de Joy, Perrier Jouet, spilling sparkling stars
Shared with you ~ !"
~ Twittering'

~ * ~

"Both words are acceptable,
Dr Petty!

WILLFUL or Wilful

BTW,
You have misspelled

Mis ~ spell!"
~ //!!

"Dr.
Pretty Petty,
Do you sport Penis Envy,

Or do you yearn for me,
Venus envied ...

Do you desire
To pet me, O, Dr.
Pretty, am I your aspiration,
Your fire?

O but for the forested trees,
Fear knots loathing into loving,
A glowing Shimmering Sea ~

A Shining Court & Sparkling
Home.

O, Dr.
Pretty, am I your aspiration,
Your fire? Do you desire
To pet me?

La Bette loves
Beauty's Noiry Beast ~ !

O Dr.
Pretty Petty, do you sport
Pubic hair in your lair, wildly sprouting,

Or a trim, you sport,
A neatly manicured lawn,
Your coiffeur's carpet, for your Rug Rat

Cavorting ~ ? O Dr.
Pretty Petty,
Do you sport Penis Envy,

Or Venus Envy,
Do you yearn for me, O, My Adored,
My Trusted Twisted One, Perched upon

My Pedestal?
Venus or Penis envied ... O
Wise One,
Elixir for my arrested development?

The Hour's Lesson
Later today ... Got that?!

La Bette loves
Beauty's Noiry Beast ~ Piece de résistance ~ !
A very Fine Romance."
~ Twittering

*

~ * ~

The P's,
The next paradigm ~

Performed on The Prepared Piano.
The Higher Keys, you say, O, what's that?

A skeptic ~
I've my doubts these keys are admissible evidence,
Will unlock The Case argued in court,
Or hidden deeply in The Closet de Repression, or Depression.

But the ocean views
Returned. Patterned wallpaper and Exhibit
Q ~

Vitrines stuffed with accessories to the crime,
Virtues, Vertices, Virgins ~

The deliberate acknowledgement
Of subversion

Ferried the passengers deeper into the heart of the conversation,
The Forest de Bettleheim's
Would,
O, I would, too ~ !

Here's The Place reserved for a willful houseguest
Staking claim for The Opera Season, a very good reason,
An Excellent Raison d' Etre ~ !

Clear, cool day brimming with transparent solution,
Hand held out to keep from falling ~

Poised at the brink of a bottomless pool,
The moon's silver ~ fingered light wakes you
With a startled start ...

Your Sack of Follies and Illusions slung over your shoulder,
Sewn from their own tattered conclusions.

It all becomes clear.
You wipe the clouded glass,
Spy upon the self

In Sacred Vestments of your own very talented wiles,
Your own Wise Disguise,

Vaguely blurred, faintly foiled,
A very fine Masque for this evening's festivity ~

~ * ~

The Q's,
The next quagmire ~

Quick to see where all this has taken us.
Romance ~
A kind of love ...

~ * ~
Sporting
Sacred Vestments of your own Too ~ Talented Wiles,
Your own Very Wise Disguise,

Vaguely blurred, faintly silver
Foiled, you unfold

Your Tiffany En Grave's Invitation ...

A very fine Masque for this evening's Fanatic
Festivity ~

~ * ~

The Q's,
The next quagmire ~

Heart
Quickens ...

To see where all this Fiendishness Freudian Bird
By Bird flown afowl, on the howl ~

Has ferried
Us.

Romance ~
A kind of love ... Quintessential Essence
De QUIM.

~ * ~

"O, Twittering,
Please don't stop sending me your pungent,
Fragrant lovely horoscopes ~ !

O, mon cher,
Divine Essence de Quim ~ !

My hopes, O, so very high."
~ Capsicum

"Impact craters, or Cats gutting strung Stradivarius
Violins ~ Habitats for life plucking the Unstrung
Harpsichord ~ ?

Did you really try to make sense,
With this post,

Or are you merely pissing around The Lamp Post
To mark your territory?"
~ Dr. Flonkenstein

"Just jittering ~ bugging The Pee
Dance, avec Twitter ~ !"
~ Folly

"Just call us Impudent
But not Imprudent ~ ! O, we dance
The Imp ~ Pee ~ Dance,

Our dew, damply, overdue, our alternating current,
Au currant, O, our Cherry Jitters Jubilantly,
Flambé,

Burning frightfully brightly our insightfully
Instigated
Tail ~

~ * The Resurrection of Leonardo,
A Dog * ~

O, a very Divine Canine, too ~ !"
~ Twittering

~ * ~
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A Gold Coast Celebration ~
A Euphoria Under Trees

....A Fifth Avenue Stroll,

Quoted message said:

From Bark Place,

Over to
Imagine & Strawberry Fields ~

All's White, an Album
Memorized ...

Or
Is that Memorex,

Or Aretha,
Ella et al.?
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Read the News,
The Press Reviews
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Just a Daily Dog Rag * ~

"All the news that's fit print to housetrain."
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~ * The Lust Herald * ~

"If you lust, when done, kick sand."
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On Evolutionary Theory ~

"By the Damn Book:
Then Again, Perhaps Not!"

Forthcoming...
Yes ~
A Morning Wood Publication
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"If you must, or lust, when done,
Kick sand. This is Joan Bennett, ABC Mews News.

Over & Out
About town tonight. All the news that's fit to air ~ !"
~ Joan