“Everyone needs a lifelong project.” Norman's is the writing of hundreds (thousands?) of one line poems.
language shares a common tongue
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huddled masses with socks
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arriving on time and late
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wonder where width went
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me or it - either way you jump off
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just over that hill: the one one wants one
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my legs cramp, my head moves its mouth
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do get simultaneous animals
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strip language of emotion, end up with operate
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nevertheless, again more
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predicate, pontificate, travel long distances and speak truth
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it as do be it he me or
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in a short while craft - not much to do about it
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turn a single letter - it becomes a bird or later
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a string pulled out of a word endlessly, never snaps
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disabled and detained, probably dispelled
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place it on a stump
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fragment detachment
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nature speaks to those who disappear into it
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all the images my eyes have seen now memory?
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dumped ashtray on bed when pulled down covers
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limited potential so must rely on hope or help
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olfactory workers on break
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Benedict knew God loved him
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my stupidity, lack of care, laziness, impatience, all endearing to someone
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genus, genius, genous, generous, degenerate, disingenuous
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how many meals in a lifetime?
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gangrenous tooth defection or flesh encumbrance
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acid of sword blade on the road of crushed petals
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rug phrases, race cages
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sound of someone long gone
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aware of trauma in room, mild sinking
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where there’s sentence there’s attention
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violin passion on the derangement of purse
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Jabes mentions book, desert, God, Jew, nothing
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mentioning blossoms cements poetic mood
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insurance reimbursement//worrisome
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Dr. Laura pins you down
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taxtrick (who’s arbiter of right and wrong)
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everyone there is dying - you should think of that
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long heat of happiness, stiff eyeball
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wires and beams, stray dog
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everything brown in the room
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imitation of poet no longer warm for life
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horticultural tour of parlor
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hold onto music: not possible
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release pit or point... quite occurring
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spent pine needles scattered in cypress tree
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stone poem about puddles on step
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red sweater of yesteryear, worn, now, worn?
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all those books, lamentation, song, punctuation
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career dependency//sky diving// careen and float
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flat flaot flout finally
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self’s impossible, listen to rain
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all stopped “ “ some light is bright
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beyond the body limit disturbance
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wonderful dilemma, icy decisions open into view
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trees above trimmed bushes, sentinels
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walking among red leaves looking up()()()s k y
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car (mind) break down
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long winter’s night: distasteful lamplight
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phone: lost and forgot
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having a baby, knowing what to do
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sex in middle age (nice to know you)
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sound of door, voice, wind
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our house, our house, our house (another’s)
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parts of worlds, words, boxes left unclaimed
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record, bow, praise, lament, offer, decide, fade.......
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no reach
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fountain and tree attract duck
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heron in field tip-toes silent
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music in the way one goes on
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where’s blend of folk, rhyme’s reason
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one fixed idea broken
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one’s fixed idea (one is)
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why not gather, determine(contradiction)
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who knows interrogative tone, tentative gesture
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Mexican people see Mary at night
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turning the bad dead over in the coffin
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jar in Tennessee (unlikely to be in Memphis)
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not going to Paris - see it best (tasting name)
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foot at end of ankle, hand at wrist
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art an end of rankle, sand in fist
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(whew! air in air out)
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going slowly one goes further
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you and I could refer to same
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pages, like beaches, wet
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translation: pushing the stone aside
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these and those (lips and teeth)
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: mystery image at life’s end
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which; happily family laughter
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stormy eruption at civilization’s end
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words turning noisy, snarl
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sprig snapped, a life, crushed blossom
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Benedict’s love, to glide (elision)
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my disinclinations, thirsty root
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light wanes but sky’s still
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one repeat (death makes soil)
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hardy (be slow my heart) tidy
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which, whither, whether, wither, with, weather, willy-nilly
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someone everyone anyone wondered
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**open mouth ** close door**speak**stay warm*