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About JMN

I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.

“Rifleman”

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN
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Happy Words

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I have taken a vow of poetry — I shall never be a Person of Wealth. Strong and Wrong ATT-Novartis Corporate Hedgequarters No Lordering (Copyright 2018 James Mansfield Nichols. All rights reserved.)

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From Memory

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

“The Second Coming,” poem by W. B. Yeats, http://www.poetryfoundation.org. Yeats, like Shelley in “Ozymandias,” associates folly and tyranny and self-aggrandizement with the desert lands. That happens to be where the trio of stern monotheisms were “revealed”: I’m the Only One, … Continue reading →

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“Shirtless”

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

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Didactic Doggerel

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

Space-Ball Note: Merkanooka is in Australia. Seguin, a town in Texas, is pronounced “suh-GHEEN.” Turley is in Oklahoma. A space-ball fell from nowhere on Namibia, A place more noted for a fossil tibia. Another one, the Merkanooka ball From Gemini, … Continue reading →

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“Physical person”

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

Law school was where I first met the term “physical person.” It puzzled me initially: What person would not be “physical”? That started my education about the bizarre legal fiction that asserts corporations to be people with rights and privileges … Continue reading →

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Tentative Signage

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

Kinda There –> <– A Little Bit Yonder (Copyright 2018 James Mansfield Nichols. All rights reserved.)

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Happy Words

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Alabama Law, 1839: “An Act to Suppress the Evil Practice of Carrying Weapons Secretly” Adverteasement For Staying Powder: “Taters, Maters, Boodang Pudd’n, Black Strap ‘Lasses” (Copyright 2018 James Mansfield Nichols. All rights reserved.)

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Happy Words

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

Better heathen I. Find your niche and scratch it. Chainsaw of life. Sucker the needy. (Copyright 2018 James Mansfield Nichols. All rights reserved.)

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Idle Doggerel

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

When a man named Bakker Meets his Makker He’ll get ice cream and cakke In the Lord’s Accre. (Copyright 2018 James Mansfield Nichols. All rights reserved.)

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