Not programmed to comply –cannot tolerate oppression:a pressure cookerready to explode Do-gooders sit upstraight and smileencouragement:I slouch defiance Don’t ask me to respectthat which is disrespectful –my fuse is shortof that I’m certain Don’t slot me;leave me –creative inspirationis not lacking here I’m a free agenta incorrigible scamp –authority doesn’t scare me’cause I’m beyond control. […]
Every child bears the sparkof eternity’s promise…Where’s the threat in that? What mechanism of hateequates slaughterof innocents with justice? This is society’s bane –the unconscionable policiesof greed lacking accountability (Tuesdays I borrow from Twitter @Vjknutson. Image my own)
A simple shoebox, repurposedwith plastered images of dreams –paper affirmations of aspirations –shelved and forgotten, its contents snapshots, faded and torn, remnantsof another time, a different future –captured when potential was primeand possibility untainted by illness This one was retirement – a supposedcelebration – but note how the colourhas drained the cracks obliteratingpride of accomplishment; […]
I hate to say this, but that water tower photo is from Florence, Kentucky… not in Texas. I’ve driven by it hundreds of times…
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Hahaha – thanks for setting me straight – a random photo I did not earmark, so just assumed. Glad you found me.
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you’re welcome. I lived in Cincinnati for several years – and that water town puzzled me each time I drove over the river into Kentucky… very interesting. I’m in Texas now – and much better than when I was in Cincinnati! Glad I found your blog.
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Likewise. You might want to link up to the photo challenge I posted that photo for – it’s just for silly signs. That water tower made me chuckle.
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hahhah
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Good morning! Is this from Florence Tx? Scratching my head as to why y’all would’ve been in Florence … off the beaten path … then again, that might’ve been why!
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It’s Florence Texas. Got quite the chuckle out of it.
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good one
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Lol.
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