a poem for edward rochester / from bertha via rachel

Rachel

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Nov 11, 2021, 7:55:01 PM11/11/21

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Dot: A Response (Ho...Ho...Ho)
Cancel Culture...🐾
Alt. Title: EpiDot

And as the beating Sun reigns relentless down…
Merciless to Man's unharnessed petty folly...
The pouring stinging rays like March's lion roar...
Hark, Proteus rising blows his Conquering Horn…
Come creeping winter tides as cruel as April's bitter Hail...
Lashing down like slavery whips upon the wretched rocks...
Rolling over on his History’s magnificent mickle mysteries...
Washing away what once was thought to be....
Ocean's mad laugh at ant-like Man's pretense, preposterous hubris...
These sandcastles crumbling on god’s golden sinking shores.…
The steps to light the way once fair now gone...
Sweating all that flesh doth dandy do perspire....
Alas, the man remains again no more....
Barn Hope has left in high Noon's drowning darkness...
Stingy Scrouge returned to Scrouge's stingy Source...
And Elvis…..has left the building.

Zod

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Nov 22, 2021, 5:48:09 PM11/22/21

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Good version...

Rachel

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Nov 23, 2021, 12:16:20 PM11/23/21

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is there another version you thought was better?

Rachel

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Nov 23, 2021, 12:52:08 PM11/23/21

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there really are no other "versions," it was just me hammering it out to get to this....chopping through the night, chopping through the dawn, chopping through ice...through pelting sleet and snow...stop me now before i slit my throat

General Zod

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Nov 23, 2021, 6:26:31 PM11/23/21

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On Tuesday, November 23, 2021 at 12:52:08 PM UTC-5, Rachel wrote:

Please be careful...

Rachel

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Nov 23, 2021, 11:58:59 PM11/23/21

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am i in danger?

Rachel

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Nov 23, 2021, 11:59:31 PM11/23/21

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i won't forget to change my tampon! :-)

Rachel

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Nov 28, 2021, 3:06:25 PM11/28/21

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save the world, bob.

Rachel

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Nov 28, 2021, 4:08:42 PM11/28/21

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do you have any morals, do you have any point of view?

Rachel

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Nov 28, 2021, 4:09:31 PM11/28/21

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i guess my vagina is unimportant and as useless as tits on a bull.

thanks a lot.

Rachel

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Nov 28, 2021, 8:16:20 PM11/28/21

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forget about helping me, in my SICK HOUSE. cold, wet, broken-down, falling apart....living in slops.

you don't even want to BE with me.

what a fucking joke.

Rachel

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Nov 28, 2021, 8:22:49 PM11/28/21

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continually verbally ATTACKED and taken advantage of by the scum who come through here, for being a single gentle woman on whom they want to dump all their ire and resentments towards americans, so much so, i'll just live in here by myself, in my deteriorating house of sickness of disease, no one caring to share their decent connections with me, nobody wanting to help me, a single woman all alone, helpless, rather than let the vicious swarm of creeping vermin continue to injure me and cause me harm.

Rachel

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Nov 28, 2021, 8:25:03 PM11/28/21

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i DARE YOU to think i am exaggerating ONE FUCKING IOTA. you think i WANT to live in here in a cold damp cell??? rather than employ a "company," to come in here and fix it?????? you honestly think i am fucking making this goddamn shit up???? invite my neighbors over for TEA????? what FANTASY WORLD do you live in, BOB?????

Willie

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Nov 29, 2021, 2:08:04 PM11/29/21

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On Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 7:55:01 PM UTC-5, Rachel wrote:

Inspired! Thank you. (I had to look up "mickle.") Tom Friedman ended his long NY Times piece on Glasgow a couple of weeks ago with this:

Two planets are talking to each other. One looks like a beautiful blue marble and the other a dirty brown ball.
“What on earth happened to you?” the beautiful planet asks the brown one.
“I had Homo sapiens,” answers the brown planet.
“Don’t worry,” says the blue planet. “They don’t last long.”

Zod

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Nov 29, 2021, 6:04:46 PM11/29/21

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In these trying times, who is not....?

Rachel

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Nov 30, 2021, 4:42:50 PM11/30/21

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On Monday, November 29, 2021 at 11:08:04 AM UTC-8, Willie wrote:
> On Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 7:55:01 PM UTC-5, Rachel wrote:
> > Dot: A Response (Ho...Ho...Ho)
> > Cancel Culture...🐾
> > Alt. Title: EpiDot
> >
> > And as the beating Sun reigns relentless down…
> > Merciless to Man's unharnessed petty folly...
> > The pouring stinging rays like March's lion roar...
> > Hark, Proteus rising blows his Conquering Horn…
> > Come creeping winter tides as cruel as April's bitter Hail...
> > Lashing down like slavery whips upon the wretched rocks...
> > Rolling over on his History’s magnificent mickle mysteries...
> > Washing away what once was thought to be....
> > Ocean's mad laugh at ant-like Man's pretense, preposterous hubris...
> > These sandcastles crumbling on god’s golden sinking shores.…
> > The steps to light the way once fair now gone...
> > Sweating all that flesh doth dandy do perspire....
> > Alas, the man remains again no more....
> > Barn Hope has left in high Noon's drowning darkness...
> > Stingy Scrouge returned to Scrouge's stingy Source...
> > And Elvis…..has left the building.
> Inspired! Thank you.

thank you....i think...not quite sure what inspired means....?

> (I had to look up "mickle.")

i was looking for a word which rhymed with pickle! ;-)

Tom Friedman ended his long NY Times piece on Glasgow a couple of weeks ago with this:
>
> Two planets are talking to each other. One looks like a beautiful blue marble and the other a dirty brown ball.
> “What on earth happened to you?” the beautiful planet asks the brown one.
> “I had Homo sapiens,” answers the brown planet.
> “Don’t worry,” says the blue planet. “They don’t last long.”

thank you....i think...not quite sure what inspired means....?

Just Walkin'

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Dec 1, 2021, 12:58:06 PM12/1/21

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Tom Friedman is a charlatan. Very wealthy, but a charlatan just the same.

Willie

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Dec 7, 2021, 9:39:32 PM12/7/21

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By "inspired" I just mean feeling the muse. Transported.

I dream probably as much as the next person, but I almost never remember my dreams. Sometimes I'll wake Susan up and say, "I just had the weirdest dream," and she'll ask, "What was it?" And usually I'll say, "I totally forget." But last night I had a dream, part of which I remember. Not sure what led up to it, but I was on a beach on the Gulf of Mexico with Arnold Cisco, a childhood friend whom I haven't seen it 60 years, who suggested we kill a water cow. "A water cow?" I said. "Yeah, there are some out there, I'll bet." We got into a little boat and went out a ways, and darned if I didn't see a black and white Holstein-like cow (same spotting as my dog Gracie) swimming about quite far out from us. Arnold said, "You gotta stab them a few times, then hold on to their tail as they swim off to die." And darned if Arnold didn't do just that when we got up to the cow. And that's when I woke up, with Arnold clinging to the poor cow's tail as it swam off.

Then, just now, I had this vague memory of a recent conversation, with whom I don't remember, about cows swimming. Might have been when we were talking about that "Power of the Dog" movie, which got us onto the subject of cattle. I don't remember with whom I had that conversation. I'll bet I do, though, at some point. Maybe I'll call the people I've been with lately and ask them if we talked about cows swimming.

Rachel

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Feb 16, 2022, 8:10:44 PM2/16/22

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sorry, this was either an oversight or before i changed it...

Barn Hope has sunk in high Noon's drowning darkness...

General Zod

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Feb 17, 2022, 12:42:26 PM2/17/22

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Hi there Rachel

Rachel

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Feb 17, 2022, 9:38:11 PM2/17/22

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how are the wool socks working out? i have some, too, but the first pair got a hole in them rather quickly. that's the SECOND pair that did that to me. first was patagonia, now ll bean. wtf?!?!?!?!? don't i deserve a nice pair of socks?!?!??!?! i think this is anti-semitism.

General Zod

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Feb 18, 2022, 4:19:55 PM2/18/22

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The ANDY WARHOL socks....?

Lovely and warm...........

Rachel

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Feb 18, 2022, 7:35:25 PM2/18/22

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i actually was referring to the wool sock i sent you a while ago, for winter....

Rachel

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Feb 18, 2022, 7:42:01 PM2/18/22

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LOL!!! that was a typo, i meant socks...

Zod

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Feb 23, 2022, 12:30:12 AM2/23/22

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I wear it on my dick but it keeps falling off. I need something much smaller, like a newborn baby's sock.

Rachel

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Feb 23, 2022, 11:12:53 AM2/23/22

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sounds like we've got a chode on our hands. send me a pic so i can get it right this time

Rachel

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Mar 10, 2022, 8:48:45 PM3/10/22

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left works well, too.

like jollibee's crisscut fries

all that flesh....

left....

speaking of which, it's a filipino company.

General Zod

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Mar 11, 2022, 5:35:45 PM3/11/22

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Hi hi hi Rachel........

Rachel

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Mar 11, 2022, 6:11:15 PM3/11/22

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buenos aires, orchata

Rachel

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Mar 14, 2022, 12:26:18 PM3/14/22

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but i like sunk

i'm going with sunk