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This is the SYSTEM the FATHERS built. These are the COURTS that rule in the SYSTEM the FATHERS built. These are the JUDGES who bench the COURTS that rule in the SYSTEM the FATHERS built. This is the PREZ who … Continue reading →

Well, my mama didn’t raise a bean counter. I have better things to do — like trying to sit down and write a good poem, for example. (Rita Dove) I have high hopes for the sitting- Down part of your enterprise. … Continue reading →

The exoplanet Kepler-twenty-two-B Has temperatures designed for you and me. (“What is an exoplanet?” you might say. It’s one outside our system, far away.) Pools of liquid water could exist there, So life just might be able to subsist there. … Continue reading →

A Truly Jumbo Shrimp It’s said a jumbo shrimp’s an oxymoron. A shrimp’s a little thing you put red sauce on And gobble by the dozen boiled or fried. Some of us could eat more if we tried. Enter the … Continue reading →

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 →

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.)

This Makes No Frankin Sense The boswellia papyrifera, A tree that grows in Ethiopia, Produces frankincense, a curious resin That has a bitter smell but isn’t poison. In Africa and in the Middle East It has embellished many a fine … Continue reading →