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How long it’s been since I have seen the shapes
of things according to their own design;
to lazy flannel nap I’ve worn this mind
by thinking I must solve what aggravates.
Compulsions once original and fine
I’ve blunted by denominating down,
demoting love’s capacity to clown,
allowing unexamined to define
this worthy and extraordinary round
of life I know to be perpetual—
to hell, henceforth, with dim and gradual!
No purchase do I seek on spongy ground.
By simple law of preference, let’s proceed;
desire squared outnumbers myriads of need.
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Note: The ancient Greeks used the term “myriad” to describe ten thousand or a hundred hundreds. Archimedes went on to say that “myriad myriads” allowed us to reach the equivalent of one hundred million. If one keeps repeating the word, of course…
© Elaine Stirling, 2015
Oceantics 
Fun, yes, to settle down!…………………………………….
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Thanks for the inspiration Elaine, I need it, this retirement idea is not one that comes easy to me.
Uncounting the Beans
plant the seed, the seed to alleviate the need the need
there is no time no time left over to smile to smile
the work the work takes up all the while the while
hungry mouths hungry mouths demand the feed the feed
make more make more than all demands all demands
no time to rest to rest no time to enjoy to enjoy
there is no rest no rest must all employ employ
permit not waste not waste of idle hands idle hands
but now new way new way I clearly see clearly see
fruit of labor can be enjoyed be enjoyed
play can be can be employed employed
from labor sweat labor sweat I can be free be free
What I want I want can have full priority full priority
over all myriads all myriads of monotony monotony.
D. Russel Micnhimer 6-15-2015
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Interesting experience reading this, Russel. Like watching a 3-D movie without the glasses. The reverb accentuates the message and sends the mind off spiraling into those myriads. .
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