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“At This Precise Moment of History” by Thomas Merton 🇺🇸 (31 Jan 1915 – 10 Dec 1968)
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At this precise moment of history
With Goody-two-shoes running for Congress
We are testing supersonic engines
To keep God safe in the cherry tree.
When I said so in this space last Thursday
I meant what I said: power struggles.
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You would never dream of such corn. The colonials in sandalwood like running wide open and available for protection. You can throw them away without a refund.
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Dr. Hanfstaengel who was not called Putzi except by those who did not know him is taped in the national archives. J. Edgar Hoover he ought to know
And does know.
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But calls Dr. Hanfstaengel Putzi nevertheless
Somewhere on tape in the
Archives.
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He (Dr. H.) is not a silly man.
He left in disgust
About the same time Shirley Temple
Sat on Roosevelt’s knee
An accomplished pianist
A remembered personality.
He (Dr. H.) began to teach
Immortal anecdotes
To his mother a Queen Bee
In the American colony.
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What is your attitude toward historical subjects?
—Perhaps it’s their size!
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When I said this in space you would never believe
Corn Colonel was so expatriated.
—If you think you know,
Take this wheel
And become standard.
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She is my only living mother
This bee of the bloody arts
Bandaging victims of Saturday’s dance
Like a veritable sphinx
In a totally new combination.
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The Queen Mother is an enduring vignette at an early age.
Now she ought to be kept in submersible decompression chambers
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For a while.
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What is your attitude toward historical subjects
Like Queen Colonies?
—They are permanently fortified
For shape retention.
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Solid shades
Seven zippered pockets
Close to my old place
Waiting by the road
Big disk brakes
Spinoff
Zoom
Long lights stabbing at the
Two together piggyback
In a stark sports roadster
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Regretting his previous outburst
Al loads his Cadillac
With lovenests.
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She is my only living investment
She examines the housing industry
Counts 3.5 million postwar children
Turning twenty-one
And draws her own conclusion
In the commercial fishing field.
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Voice of little sexy ventriloquist mignonne:
“Well I think all of us are agreed and sincerely I myself believe that honest people on both sides have got it all on tape. Governor Reagan thinks that nuclear wampums are a last resort that ought not to be resorted.” (But little mignonne went right to the point with: “We have a commitment to fulfill and we better do it quick.” No dupe she!)
All historians die of the same events at least twice.
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I feel that I ought to open this case with an apology. Dr. H. certainly has a beautiful voice. He is not a silly man. He is misunderstood even by Presidents.
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You people are criticizing the Church but what are you going to put in her place? Sometime sit down with a pencil and paper and ask yourself what you’ve got that the Church hasn’t.
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Nothing to add
But the big voice of a detective
Using the wrong first names
In national archives.
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She sat in shocking pink with an industrial zipper specially designed for sitting on the knees of presidents in broad daylight. She spoke the president’s mind. “We have a last resort to be resorted and we better do it quick.” He wondered at what he had just said.
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It was all like running wideopen in a loose gown
Without slippers
At least someplace.