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At PM12:17 outside my bedroom window            
were starlings, robins, juncos, cardinals,    
and mourning doves.                                
                                          
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Earlier this morning in mildly chilly,   
windy and rainy weather, a secret 
device arrived.                                    
                                              
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Of the stocks I am tracking, the only one    
down today was ABX (the gold stock).           
                                             
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Was over at Silliman's Blog a few times.   
Read The Village Voice Michael Robbins    
interview conducted by Zach Baron, and   
then read Rob Mackenzie's insights about
Alien vs Predator.  See Mackinzie, Rob in 
Author list for link to his blog.  Later   
I left this comment:                        
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 2007-02-24                                
                                        
 Enjoying the ride is my response to
 poems by Wallace Stevens and John  
 Ashbery, both of whom I call magic   
 carpet poets.                      
                                   
 I am here via links at Silliman's    
 Blog, and I've read Zach Baron's   
 interview.                        
                                    
 About this poem by Michael Robbins--
 which I have read several times--I   
 noted in a blog post that it "flies  
 over my head"; but that's okay,     
 given the growing multitudes of     
 signs-upon-signs.  No one can be    
 aware of a nanospeck of what's avail-
 able.  At least this poem is not what    
 I might picture Murray Gell-Mann  
 writing.  I'm pleased Mr. Robbins
 writes poems that are not like--well,  
 he knows--even if he does give Rilke  
 a hard time in this poem.         
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Yes, the "7" s/h/b "9", but lately I've  
been in a 2007 rut.  At one point, fearing  
I might lose my comment when I submitted it,
I wrote it down in my notebook, and even as
I did that I did not notice I had "2007"    
instead of "2009".  God loves minds where   
dry seeds rattle around and nothing grows.
                                                                                
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Reminder at 10:17 PM:                                    
 Check each week to see if Kunstler          
 has written a new article.  The one   
 this week is: The Abyss Stares Back                                   
                                           
                                        
                                       
                                        
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