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I have finished with my latest revision of our interminably in-preparation manuscript about a fossil mound in north Alabama. We really are getting closer to being done, at which point we will be ready to send it out for review  and have it return, perhaps much later, covered with red ink (digitally speaking). Now it's time to get back to my other big project, revising a  30 year old book, and greatly expanding it!

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Evolution of a Poem

Jovian werewolves

can’t get no peace

shave twice a day

spend a fortune on razors

straight razors are the thing

careful with that blade

you can auto-bobbitt

with an ill-timed sneeze




this is more concise and more cutting:

straight razors are the thing

but careful with that blade

you can auto-bobbitt

with an ill-timed sneeze

 

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Evolution of a Poem

defrosting granddad

he has changed

the dog chews his leg


alternate version

defrosting granddad

he’s still a bit stuff

and he don’t say much

gotta make sure the dog

doesn’t chew on his leg