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My dad has a laptop and Internet access from home. This is a brand-new development.

I retrieved my poems from my old computer. Step One in sending out poems before the end of the year: check.

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Study Links Daydreaming, Alzheimer's

Officers Sue Over Use of Hair Drug Tests

Secret Renaissance Ingredient Found: Glass

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Where do you fall in birth order relative to your siblings?

fragments, 8/25/02

Nonviolence is an exercise in self-discipline.

disturbing

Someone filled out a request for more information from our company. The form asks for standard info: street address, city, state, ZIP. It also asks for country, and this woman, who lives in Missouri, put "Christian."

matrices

At Thirteen Blackbirds, we did a creative exercise. We did a word matrix, a 4 x 4 group of words that must be used in each line, first across, then down. The lines must make as much sense as possible. Our example was a matrix that I did a couple of years ago. Our assignment was to come up with our own matrix and write a poem from that.

Here is the example matrix that we all tried:

hear day know think
case charges forget sweating
look cool speak what
back game taught love

Here are the two poems I generated, one from 8/3/03 and one from 8/22/05:

( first )

( second )

Can you do the matrix? If you try it, post your results. :)