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First Principles: There Is But One Straight Course, and That Is To Seek Truth and Pursue It Steadily
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None of This Matters
None of This Matters
by Michael Doyle
None of this matters
Because none of this is real
Cloaked in our tatters
It's just another day in Hell
God's given insight
Into the battles we must fight
Scattered in the ashes of the night
We somehow hold onto the light
The waters run red with blood
With our souls mired in the mud
The blood bruises of yesterday
Are less cruel than the words some say
It's a different sense of understanding
When we take a stand against those demanding
More than anyone reasonable and good
With six degrees separated more than they should
It's an artistic travesty
Spiraled out across life's tapestry
Of what passed in life unguarded
We find pleas for mercy disregarded
(c) November 12, 2022 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: The True Key For the Construction of Everything Doubtful In A Law Is the Intention of the Law-Makers
“The true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the express words of the law.” – Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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Thought For the Day: Some of the Biggest Cases of Mistaken Identity Are Among Intellectuals Who Have Trouble Remembering That They Are Not God
“Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.” – Thomas Sowell
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Rough Edges
Rough Edges
by Michael Doyle
Sometimes it seems
I've lost all my dreams
At the rough edges
And window ledges
Are all I'm hanging onto
It's been so long since I've held you
Stuck working the night shift
In a world full of grift
The system works its cut
Against the survivors of the glut
It's a world of interesting company
Walk on players run the infirmary
Jacked into the system's brutality
Played out without any subtlety
We're all tied up in a massacred brand
It's propriety, you have to understand
All in all, it's a rhetorical mess
To which it seems we quietly confess
The system as played, when put to test
Is, as it seems, no better than the rest
(c) November 11, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Your Voice Dries Up If You Don’t Use It
“Your voice dries up if you don’t use it.” – Patti Page, singer (8 Nov 1927-2013)
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First Principles: It Is On Great Occasions Only, and After Time Has Been Given For Cool and Deliberate Reflection, That the Real Voice of the People Can Be Known
“It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.” – George Washington (1796)
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Imagine My Surprise
Imagine My Surprise
by Michael Doyle
Imagine my surprise
At learning time is linear
The doctors opened my eyes
With a ditty about no longer being superior
Sitting there tugging at my cape
Hinting I'm no longer a masked crusader
But the prisoner of a lined gape
Mother Nature clarified I could not evade her
Time catches up with us all
Words of wisdom that I now recall
It feels only yesterday I came to understand
That I would not always be superman
Sitting here with pupils dilated
I think of the chances I hesitated
Certain there was time enough to find
And now yesterday has left me behind
Facebook has ruined high school reunions
In its incessant patter passed off as communion
Forgotten whispers from way back when
Become reminders of what might have been
Looking out these windows full of change
Somewhat mystified at how my life rearranged
Once happily caught up in arguments found compelling
Looking back, I don't find these all that appealing
Time catches up with us all
Words of wisdom that I now recall
It feels only yesterday I came to understand
That I would not always be superman
Sitting here with pupils dilated
I think of the chances that I hesitated
Certain there was time enough to find
And now yesterday has left me behind
Thrashing through life, plummeting into age
God knows I pray enough for the wisdom of a sage
Every room becomes an escape room with anxiety
And nothing is simple based on this complexity
Of thinking I might just win this game of thrones
But instead landing on feet though quite alone
I've followed the rabbit down its mystery hole
Hoping that I might yet find the meaning of my soul
(c) November 10, 2022 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Labor To Keep Alive In Your Breast That Little Spark of Celestial Fire Called Conscience
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” – George Washington (1748)
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Thought For the Day: Use the Talents You Possess, For the Woods Would Be A Very Silent Place If No Birds Sang Except the Best
“Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.” – Henry van Dyke, poet (10 Nov 1852-1933)
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