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Diet

If you decide to take on the care of another life, 

you need to respect its needs. 

• If I get a cow, I provide it hay and grass. 
• If I get a snake, I provide it mice. 
• If I get a cat, I provide it a ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal, chicken by-product meal, soybean meal, beef tallow (preserved with mixed tocopherols), animal digest, calcium carbonate, turkey by-product meal, salmon meal, ocean fish meal, phosphoric acid, choline chloride, salt, potassium chloride, titanium dioxide (color), vitamins (vitamin E supplement, niacin supplement, vitamin A supplement, d-calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate [source of vitamin B1], riboflavin supplement [source of vitamin B2], pyridoxine hydrochloride [source of vitamin B6], menadione sodium bisulfite complex [source of vitamin K activity], vitamin D3 supplement, folic acid, biotin, vitamin B12 supplement), minerals (ferrous sulfate [source of iron], zinc oxide, manganous oxide, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite), taurine, yellow 6, yellow 5, red 40, blue 2, rosemary extract.

diet.

For toilets that run or won't refill

I am inspired by toilet fixtures
FAST FILL VALVE
FITS ALL BRANDS

I won't mention that it
REPLACES UNIVERSAL FILL VALVES
Sorry,
I GUESS I DID.

The installation was as simple
As the box suggested
One
Two
Three

But I have a bucket of water
From the drained tank that I
Have not emptied.

You know it is impolite to talk
About our bodily functions

But changing the float valve
In this shitter really makes me
Want to take a royal shit

So I do.

Goodness.  You shouldn't talk
Like that

The INSTALLATION went well
I even consulted the Spanish
Instruciones.

At least it flushes now.

An Ode to Lynn

Lynn,
You were dour
And you know it
The postcards from
That far away city
Speak of love
However

You must read that
Book aloud to us all
Now

We are stuck on the
Tube

But then again
We drank at the
Bar X

There was loss
There was gain
There was

Your excellence cannot
Match a regular schedule
Of meetings and schedules

I suggest you write
That's what you do
Dear doctor
Write

An Ode to Lisa

Lisa,
The glaring sun could not outshine
Your honeysuckle brilliance.
You sang, my God you sang.
You sang of a memory lost
And then recovered
You sang of lust undiscovered
Discovered.

I talked to you after, quite foolishly,
And said "honeysuckle" when it was
Honey locust.

All honey tastes as sweet,
As the poet says.

An ode should be longer,
Methinks.

But I am overwhelmed, like
Keats with his bubbles winking
Your wine has over-taken me.

What's the strophe?  What's the
Antistrophe? But here's the epode:

Pindar celebrated athletic performance,
Did he not?  You out shot the sun
In your simple song sung.
Twelve hundred million meters
I say.  No discus could ever
Sail so far or so high.

Tis not unusual, as Tom, might
Say _________________________

So much depends

while ($Redwheelbarrow=="glazed with rainwater") {

$whitechickens="beside";

}

Three encounters with loneliness

First, "I am lonely, lonely.
I was born to be lonely,"
The lights were on in his
Office.

Second, a casual conversation
In the hall, "I'm just feeling
Lonely."

Third, I don't recall it so
Clearly, but it was a lost
Girl who walked by me and
Said hello.  She glanced quickly
Side to side

Hush now, don't explain
Loneliness