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Joyce Wycoff's avatar

@Russell C Smith Three neon sentences stop me this morning:

"We live in a world where frittata rhymes with medulla oblongata.

Ten out of ten people on the planet prefer peace over war.

And yet, war still rages."

One is a brain delight.

Two are gut punches.

Just another Substack morning.

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Russell C. Smith's avatar

@Joyce Wycoff ... Thanks for digging this piece. We live in a world ... of brain delights and gut punches.

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Karl Straub's avatar

Russell-- it took me a minute to check out your work, and now that I’m in, I’ll probably neglect it most of the time. I’m trying not to spend so much time here. But I am definitely in; you’ve got good ideas AND good sentences, and we never have enough of either. And thanks for the restack, too!

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Russell C. Smith's avatar

Karl,

It looks like you do dig Noir films/books, and there are some noir prose poems waiting for you when you drop in for another visit.

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Karl Straub's avatar

Excellent, I’ll look for it, thanks!

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Deborah Brasket's avatar

Beautiful and inspiring.

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Russell C. Smith's avatar

I appreciate it, Deborah.

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David Deubelbeiss's avatar

I loved this one. The automatic, naturalness shone through. A keeper. Thanks.

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Russell C. Smith's avatar

Thanks for your thoughtful comment, David.

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Russell C. Smith's avatar

Alisa, ThankYou, ThankYou, ThankYou!

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Russell C. Smith's avatar

@DuVay Knox Much appreciation.

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Russell C. Smith's avatar

Thanks, Elizabeth! Gratitude.

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