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<\/p>\n\u201cIn the beginning you really loved me<\/p>\n
But I was blind and I could not see<\/p>\n
But when you left me, oh how I cried<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t miss your water till your well runs dry\u201d<\/p>\n
(sung by the Byrds and Taj Mahal in the 1960s)<\/p>\n
A.sk about riddles, use your hot brain pan<\/p>\n
F.ind out from the beginning if you can<\/p>\n
U.nderstand as much of the complete plan<\/p>\n
D.iagnose and scope out the entire scene<\/p>\n
G.ather all your random thoughts in between<\/p>\n
I.nvestigate using intelligence and introspection<\/p>\n
N.udge your mind\u2019s memory banks into action<\/p>\n
G.o at it again from many different angles<\/p>\n
H.ave at it until you reach some satisfaction<\/p>\n
A.ttack with all your might all day and night<\/p>\n
L.isten to your brain bursts, leaps, and tangles<\/p>\n
F.ocus on what might be both wrong and right<\/p>\n
W.atch out for stubborn memories and mangles<\/p>\n
I.gnore nothing and learn from beginning to end<\/p>\n
T.hen you\u2019ll see what is coming around the bend.<\/p>\n
Daddy said my oldest brother was a halfwit<\/p>\n
and called his second oldest son a dimwit<\/p>\n
He said that all my extraneous horse poo-poo<\/p>\n
Would get me only hard laboring jobs to do that I was growing up to be a f\u2026ing half wit.<\/p>\n
N.B. Lines in the Development section beginning with \u2018Diagnose\u2019 and \u2018Gather\u2019 have been used to replace lines beginning with \u2018Construct\u2019 and \u2018Keep\u2019 to avoid a commonly used vulgar expletive in the acrostic that rhymes with trucking or plucking.<\/p>\n
That \u2018F\u2019 word is used in many parts of speech. It can have multiple meanings including anger, extreme distaste, to emphasize a point, or describe to what extent something is happening to someone. The original lines were \u2018Construct a picture of the entire scene\u2019 and \u2018Keep reason and rational thought and what is in between.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Joey aka “Pepe Batbon” Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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