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Sinced my last set of instructions failed, I thought I'd try my luck at other *uctions.

Constructions:

1. Go to the beach at low tide.
2. Position yourself half way between the high and low water marks.
3. Push a bunch of sand together until it forms a knee high pile.
4. Shape pile into something castle like.

Destructions:

1. Watch the incoming tide remove your creation.
2. Ponder the meaning of it all.

Deductions:

1. Wonder why you can still comfortably make sand castles on a New England beach in the week prior to Christmas.
2. Deduce that global warming will change your way of life.

Reductions:
1. Concede that the problem is too large for you to change.
2. Think that a few less cold days is not that big a deal.

Induction:
1. Go back to your car, get in.
2. Insert the key.
3. Turn the key.
4. Drive home.
--Evil B.
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2006.12.17
Poem of the Moment
been down these roads
a long while now
saw a lot of friendly faces
working it all out

too many times
i've been finding easy gravy trains
making those gravy train angels
sweeping our arms
facing the sky
laying down by the side of the trail
A rough recreation of a "Paul Simon lyric" I read in a dream last night. The most memorable part was the idea of making "snow angels" in gravy, and how that plus the "gravy train" was a metaphor for taking romance too casually, and too much for granted.

It seemed a lot more meaningful in the dream.