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octogenarian dadaist writer [Vineyard's Children (hippie novel) Chance (baseball novel)] and admirer of Jimmy the Joyce, Ginnie the Woolf, Sammy the Beck, Gertie the Stein, Lew the Carroll, Ed the Lear, etc and so on for quite a long list indeed
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MRS DALLOWAY 1ST LINES 📚💙 Mrs. Dalloway said that she would get the flowers herself. - Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself. - Virginia Woolf's 1922 short story

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RING A DING DING #photo

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THE GIRL WITH THE COME HITHER LIMP #poem #dada the girl with the come hither limp survived on a diet of shrimp her breath melted steel so after each meal she escaped on a runaway blimp

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THIS LITTLE SPARROW GREW UP TO BECOME AN EDITH PIAF 🎵

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Dearest cherry tree,🌳 I wait months for your blossoms 🌸 Don't drop them so fast! #dailyhaikuprompt (blossoms) #haiku #poetry #poem ✍️ #poetsofbluesky

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THE QUEEN'S PRIVATE GARDEN (in a story I wrote) #art

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BIG MARTHA TAKES NO GUFF FROM HER BUDS #photo 🌼

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SUNBATHING LEMON #photo

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BARBIE TREE #photo

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A LIE ABOUT JIMMIE RODGERS 🎸 #dada Jimmie was taught to yodel by Jack Dempsey.

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BREAKING AND ENTERING #photo 🌼

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HIKE REWARD #photo

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A LIE ABOUT GUY KIBBEE 📽️ Guy Kibbee stole that hat from Mickey Rooney.

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DOVE POEM #dada #poem the dove inside my top hat uses clothespins to hang its bloody feathers on the line

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FRECKLES #photo🌼

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TREE #poem #dada tree heightened disgust a single leaf snarls the pond winces

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IMAGINE #photo 🌼

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MOON JUNE CROON MYSTERY MUSICAL #poem #dada moon june croon dagger moon june croon stab moon june croon the game’s afoot

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MUM'S THE WORD 🌼 #photo

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WALKING STICKS I HAVE KNOWN #art (and still know)

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JIMINY CRICKET📽️ aka Cliff Edwards

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ALPECIA ⚡ #dada The white rose, Alpecia, longed to make a fortune with her wits. Sadly, she had none. So when she tore herself from the wedding bouquet, rushed to the railroad tracks, and flung herself on board an outgoing passenger train, she had no idea what to do next. Confused, she remained

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DUCKS

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ADVICE When faced with numerous worthwhile options, sometimes you just have to bite the bull by the horns and choose one.

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A LIE AND A TRUTH ABOUT JOE GREEN 🎵 Joe was wounded at the first Bull Run fight and wrote a bunch of operas.

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THE OTHER PLACE #art #poem #dada when she fell into the other world, this is where she landed when i say she suffered quite a shock, i could not be more candid when she ate a yellow bloom, her eyes crossed in delight when she lifted to the sky, she became a flying kite when she awoke, she smiled

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AT THE WINKIE/GILLIKIN BORDER IN OZ #photo 📚💙#booksky

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A LIE ABOUT COCO CHANEL 👗 Coco’s pearls were made of whale teeth.

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THE SCOTTISH PLAY 📽️ #filmsky The great Isuzu Yamada depicting the chilling Lady Washizu in Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood, his version of the Scottish play set in medieval Japan.

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NOVEL ENDER 📚💙 #booksky Free all purpose novel ending sentence! All genres! 100% success rate! -Then the sun exploded.-

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HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT In theory, she was a garment worker. In practice, she was the leader of the revolution. In theory, she stumbled and fell into the trash bin, shrugging and grinning at her boss. In theory, no one could have known that the world would eventually tremble at her slightest frown.

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MEATERY #poem #dada FEATURING: pork-fed beef beef-fed pork chicken-fed beef beef-fed chicken chicken-fed pork pork-fed chicken SPECIAL BONUS! pork-fed pork beef-fed beef chicken-fed chicken

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HEAT #photo

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A LIE ABOUT DON AMECHE 📽️ #filmsky #dada Don just saw Wallace Beery’s lunch.

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AN EARTHLY PLEASURE #photo

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JEFFERSON CARPORT #poem #dada jefferson carport slices an egg marian philpott scratches her leg the wandering fiend gnashes its teeth a powerful surge ascends from beneath the poet composes on the beach sanity lies far beyond reach

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LET THE SUN SHINE IN #photo 🌼

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QUOTE FROM THE PORPOISE KING #dada The quality of mercy is not strained when in the course of piscean events a new day dawns on the bounding main with truth, justice, and fear itself. – The Porpoise King

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KYUZO 📽️ #filmsky Seiji Miyaguchi plays Kyuzo, a sort of deadly master swordsman samurai Buster Keaton in The Seven Samurai, high on the list of best movies ever made.

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THE BOLDNESS OF CARRINGTON ⚡ #flash Carrington’s heart rattled like a jackhammer. He felt faint, nevertheless he succeeded in passing into the breakroom unnoticed. Before his courage had time to fail, he stepped to the counter and opened the cupboard where the coffee mugs sat in an ordered row. He

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BASKERS #photo

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AFTER THE MUSHROOMS #art 🎨

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PRELUDE TO A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT #art 🎨

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THE SECRET OF THE UNIVERSE 🎨💙📚 #art

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A LIE ABOUT ROBERT MITCHUM 📽️ #filmsky To prepare for this role, Robert shrugged, then punched J. Edgar Hoover in the face.

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