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The
Starpoet
Newsletter
Vol. VIII, No. I
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Year ends
Year begins
We find ourselves together
Continuing on
With life
With love
With each other
Lisa Jain Thompson c. 2007 C.E.
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Novum Annum. But who's counting? The eighth volume, the first newsletter. Have I really been doing this for seven years now?
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At the beginning
Annum Novum
Father out in the street
Throwing a new football to his son;
Throwing a new football to his son;
Jogger running the sidewalk,
Showing off his Christmas outfit;
Everyone’s in recovery
The morning after the holiday,
Showing off his Christmas outfit;
Everyone’s in recovery
The morning after the holiday,
Relaxing with friends and family.
Doing much of nothing.
We’re in the interregnum
Between next year and the last;
Doing much of nothing.
We’re in the interregnum
Between next year and the last;
A four step lazy week
Until the new festivities begin:
Until the new festivities begin:
Champaign, parties, and firecrackers,
Welcoming the games of January.
Welcoming the games of January.
Lisa Jain Thompson
January 2007
January 2007
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something new, something old
Cheeseburger, Pepsi No Coke
New year, same as the old year,
Only with bigger numbers
So we know where zero is.
The sun stays put, the earth rotates,
Setting and rising the starlight;
Round and round the planet goes;
Following the sun towards Hercules.
Setting and rising the starlight;
Round and round the planet goes;
Following the sun towards Hercules.
The galaxy spins, core and arm,
Curling overhead at night;
Curling overhead at night;
The Milky Way moves
Inevitably towards Adromeda,
No matter what
We might post-philosophize.
Inevitably towards Adromeda,
No matter what
We might post-philosophize.
Lisa Jain Thompson
January 2007
January 2007
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Come here sister
Papa's in the swing
He ain't too hip now
but I can dig that new breed babe;
He ain't no drag
He's got a brand new bag
-- Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag
James Brown
Dead at 73
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walking around
The Feel of It
The city's out of rhythm
-- I can't quite place it --
A post-holiday nervousness
Unconnected to social obligations.
A post-holiday nervousness
Unconnected to social obligations.
I'm not sure it's the war
Or some general malaise
Spreading from the presidency
To the country as a whole,
Spreading from the presidency
To the country as a whole,
Like we're trapped in a moving car
With several hours left to go
And the driver's sneaking whiskey,
Refusing to make a pit stop
Until we reach some destination
With several hours left to go
And the driver's sneaking whiskey,
Refusing to make a pit stop
Until we reach some destination
That only he seem to know.
Lisa Jain Thompson
January 2007
January 2007
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Gerald R. Ford
38th President
Age 93
38th President
Age 93
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure.
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
The American people want a dialogue between them and their president . . . And if we can't have that opportunity of talking with one another, seeing one another, shaking hands with one another, something has gone wrong in our society.
There are no historic or legal precedents to which I can turn in this matter, none that precisely fit the circumstances of a private citizen who has resigned the presidency of the United States. . . . Many months and perhaps more years will have to pass before Richard Nixon could hope to obtain a fair trial by jury . . . But it is not the ultimate fate of Richard Nixon that most concerns me . . . but the immediate future of this great country . . . . Now, therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, president of the United States . . . have granted and do grant a full, free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he . . . has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974. It can go on and on, or someone must write "The End" to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.
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Nothing says the holidays like three black garbed police officers holding matching Squad Automatic Weapons at the exit to the Pentagon Metro exit.
LJT
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something hanging around
Brief Interlude
When I get there, I'll be going,
Before I wear out or get bored;
I find life better if you keep moving,
Rather than present a stationary target
For others to take opportunity.
I find life better if you keep moving,
Rather than present a stationary target
For others to take opportunity.
Lisa Jain Thompson
January 2007
January 2007
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New Year's Resolutions
Find a new president
Find a new planet
Spend less money than I make
Have the body of an 18 year old
Have the knees of a 30 year old
Write the Great American screenplay
Sell the damn screenplay
Surge troops in Iraq
Withdraw troops in Iraq
End the damn thing one way or t'other
Lisa Jain Thompson
2007
2007
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sighing
Presidential Obit
Cross off another dead president
-- Funny how they all look better
When they're gone:
A sitting president is all caught up
In politics and electioneering survival
To ever make a positive impression;
But a decade later, maybe two,
-- Funny how they all look better
When they're gone:
A sitting president is all caught up
In politics and electioneering survival
To ever make a positive impression;
But a decade later, maybe two,
All is forgiven and you wish it were he
Instead of the current one in the White House.
Instead of the current one in the White House.
Lisa Jain Thompson
January 2007
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Meanwhile Back at the Clone Factory
Is the bad karma eliminated if you eat the same cloned cow over and over again instead of a new cow at each meal?
Does a cloned animal get a completely new soul or does it possess a duplicate soul of the orginal animal?
Would you go to hell if you married your clone?
If Adolf Hitler were ever cloned, would nuture or nature win out?
How does God tell clones apart?
Would the Trinity make better sense if Jesus and the Holy Spirit were considered clones of God?
Is cloning the sincerest form of flattery?
If life begins at the moment of conception, when does the clock start for a clone?
What is the difference between a third generation clone's genealogy and the British Royal Family's?
Would shepherds know the difference if the sheep was cloned?
Lisa Jain Thompson
2007
2007
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last week
A Christimas Eve Observation
Waiting for the kids on Christmas Eve,
Doors open, letting in the breeze,
A global warming winter in Washington D.C.
A global warming winter in Washington D.C.
Porch light on, dog on the ready,
Presents piled up under the Christmas tree,
Stockings, stuffed for son and daughters,
Sitting in a line on the floor
Presents piled up under the Christmas tree,
Stockings, stuffed for son and daughters,
Sitting in a line on the floor
-- No chimney.
Lisa Jain Thompson
January 2007
January 2007
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The Teachings of Rabbi Yeshua
There is nothing outside a person,
which by going into him can defile him;
but the things which come out of a person
are what defile him.
Leave the dead to bury their own dead
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connecting timelines
Clone
The FDA says
I'm an approved clone of Sappho,
Safe to be eaten, both juicy and sweet;
My poetry is indistinguisable
From the verses she wrote,
My lyrics are as tasty
As most any from Lesbos;
There is nary an analytical, scientific test
That can tell her from me if I choose,
Exceptin', of course, she spoke Aeolic Greek
And I chose English for my lesbian tongue.
Safe to be eaten, both juicy and sweet;
My poetry is indistinguisable
From the verses she wrote,
My lyrics are as tasty
As most any from Lesbos;
There is nary an analytical, scientific test
That can tell her from me if I choose,
Exceptin', of course, she spoke Aeolic Greek
And I chose English for my lesbian tongue.
Lisa Jain Thompson
January 2006
January 2006
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PEACE
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Copyright © Lisa Jain Thompson 1995-2007. Further distribution of this newsletter in its entirety is authorized. Email your letters and postcards or visit her contact page at the Starpoet website.
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