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Tuesday is a Wet Sock

Shinwell Johnson

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Tuesday is a Wet Sock by Shinwell JohnsonCopyright 2011Published by BlazeVOX [ebooks]

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B l a z e V O X

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What do we live for,if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

George Eliot

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Tuesday is a Wet Sock

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That weight I lost last month, I seem to have found again.

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There is cold and snow in much of us

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In Arizona our gun laws are very liberal

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Death by Misadventure

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We don 't know why the plane went on a wobbly

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I always said Id enjoy going to his funeral

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Well thats just plain bughouse

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You don't fit the bill now do you.

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Don 't come the old boy scout at me sunshine

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The bridge that doesnt collapse does not make the news

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The exclamation point machine

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The opposite of all hell breaks loose

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The very model of modern English major

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Chia Guevara

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The best thing to do is not say anything to anyone

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Manolo Colonic

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You look old enough to know better

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A petulant and vengeful man

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Your toothbrush tastes funny

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You were awesome until you got old

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Oh goodie, lets have lots

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He cant hurt you now; hes shot his bolt

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Yes from what I gather,I wish you would

Gather up for good

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The problem with stupid people is that they will never knowhow smart they are not.

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Printering

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even our own names refer to something so far removed from our selvesthey could mean almost nothing at all.

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The man who plays the clown makes me sad

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Even the weather is maudlin.

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Fisherman stranded on rock is genius

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You cannot talk about past glories while having fun in the present

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Almost and indiscernible difference

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Magical madrigals

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Its not what a writer can write, but what a reader will accept

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Scamouflage

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look at your shoes in shame.

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a nightingale sang in Tiananmen square

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iHave

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scuppered

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I will endeavor to ascertain

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I heard you made a dogs breakfast of your reading

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Assiduity: Constant or close attention to what one is doing

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SONOWON

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Snowow

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They got a bit above themselves

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He is a dangerous intellectual

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Whack up the ginger

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Paper cannot feel humiliation

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In the Florida room David sits with dissonance

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The women of pop go hop

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Very much looking forward to seeing this

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he looks the part of the louche prince in thrall

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overcome a crippling stammer

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Never mind blowing out 50 candles

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Hes all boots and waistcoats

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The future isnt a place anymore

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crumbling into a kipple, the prose of the obsolete soars

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clean, rational, clutterless

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a tiggerish trail of breadcrumbs

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a commanding view of a wild goose chase

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tiggerish

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I felt like everyone was kicking me out of rooms

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He cannot get up from the writingslike a crab his legs send no signals

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We never condemn anyone who does not know what they were doing

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gold amongst the dross of the deregulated

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A sick man is never where he wants to be

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I will be generous enough to not envy you

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Flashion

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Is it him or his brother?

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We cant just stand here like ducks in weather

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Reality now means fantasy

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A possible meaning is in the words

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Slower Manhattan

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Grits and Grammar

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Putting on the Grits

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Pumpkin pious

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Indivisible pudding

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This guys wearing a real genius suit

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enfant terrible

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Everyone always tells me I smell like Marijuana

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The magician is immune to his own magic.

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An old woman places a cat in the dustbin

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Softly, softly catchee monkey

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Bagoosh

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Is this America or Soviet Russia

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Thats dirty canasta

l

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Nunusual

E hi b h A d H b h h

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Everything about her screams Audrey Hepburn except her mouth

H d b if ll

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He was executed beautifully

E di hi

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Even cats distrust him

Cl k t h

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Clock watcher

It may sound like devil talk but it means something

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It may sound like devil talk, but it means something.

We all know too much to live

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We all know too much to live

The apple pie flakes of orange autumn

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The apple pie flakes of orange autumn

I stepped in a bit of her aftermath some of it got on my shoe

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I stepped in a bit of her aftermath, some of it got on my shoe

He stubbed his toe on the brick of fate

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He stubbed his toe on the brick of fate

Atheist doctors are twice as likely to make decisionsthat shorten life as doctors who are deeply religious

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Atheist doctors are twice as likely to make decisionsthat shorten life as doctors who are deeply religious

a snapshot of what might have been

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The hand to hand combat was frustrating

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So weird, some of the expressionson that womens face broke conventions

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I spent hours with them and the mechanics were effortless

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There is so much detail in real life you would think it was plastic

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enjoy the game as you would a sand box

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The tootsie roll owl counts out one, two, three

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Youre afraid of the dark, Im sure he will understand

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I quit the job and walked away from everything I knew

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Safety was a concern so we opened chilled champagne

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I cant do it anymore; Im scared all the time.

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Stay tuned right here where we will revealwhich star has the best look of the season

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Live lusciousLazy plums

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a red balloonon a black stick

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Flamboyant and elegantlyThe fairytale that crumbled

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Are you wearing my underwear?

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Dinosaurs are everywhere

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scribblings of gunpowder

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Containing sparkles of pointing disposable laughter

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We know too much about failure

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Procrastination is the thief of time

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Sanctimony makes me feel warm joys of perspective

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This will be a day for new vacuums

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I lived in Boulder for only 4 weeks

but people always call me Colorado

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What we do see is more people getting realistic

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ninelleven

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No arrests have been made.

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Scrabable

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The wrong ideals won the 20th Century

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An old woman places a cat in the dustbin

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All things combined, it is a sound way to make a recovery

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Lets not say things we cannot take back

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Don't be polite; youll regret it later

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yesterdayesterday

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Hypoxic Coriolis effect:

You throw your dangling words in a spinning world

past the point of aim, curling to a point that is no longer

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The old hat shrinks like a wet sock.

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Opening to a lemonade sky

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Youll eat a lot of strange crap if you dont have any sugar about

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Ill put up with raw eggs and seaweed if wild oats are for pudding

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Montage cowboy in midnights showcasing

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You are nothing but a waitress in disguise

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The wonders of fire

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Nice Sork

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The crime was making news

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Police pronounce live woman dead

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I hope this hopes

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You have my deepest symphonies

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I have been accused of being the only friend who assigns homework

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He must be smoking Dutch cleanser

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Im going to get blood on my cute sweater

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Shinwell Johnson lives in Buffalo, NY.He is a teacher, writer and volunteer for the Food Bank of WNY.He says, small poems are tops!

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