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I feel like posting other people's posts today. I found this poem on boingboing.net and thought it was amazing.

 Excerpt from "Here, Bullet," a book of poetry written by Sgt. Brian Turner, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, while he was serving in Iraq:

 Here, Bullet
 If a body is what you want,
 then here is bone and gristle and flesh.
 Here is the clavicle-snapped wish,
 the aorta's opened valves, the leap
 thought makes at the synaptic gap.
 Here is the adrenaline rush you crave,
 that inexorable flight, that insane puncture
 into heat and blood. And I dare you to finish
 what you've started. Because here, Bullet,
 here is where I complete the word you bring
 hissing through the air, here is where I moan
 the barrel's cold esophagus, triggering
 my tongue's explosives for the rifling I have
 inside of me, each twist of the round
 spun deeper, because here, Bullet,
 here is where the world ends, every time.
Amazon Link to book, and here is an article about the author from today's San Francisco Chronicle. (via Wayne's list)

I found this in the local paper and thought it was cute.
Enjoy!
10 Things To Ponder For 2007

TEN THINGS TO PONDER FOR 2007

#10 Life is sexually transmitted.

#9 Good health is merely the slowest rate at which one can die

#8 Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an e___tion, make him a sandwich.

#7 Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. (I wish my husband could apprecitate this one  )

#6 Some people are like a slinky... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.

#5 Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital dying of nothing.

#4 All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

#3 Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars, and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents???

#2 In the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

AND THE NUMBER ONE THOUGHT FOR 2007: We know exactly where one cow with mad-cow disease is located among the millions and millions of cows in America, and where one strain of e-coli got into the spinach, but we haven't a clue as to how to apprehend thousands of known criminals, including serial killers, pedophiles, Internet predators, identity thieves, would-be and actual terrorists, foreign students whose visas have expired, illegal aliens, crooked CEO's and CFO's etc. Maybe we should just put the Department of Agriculture in charge of everything.

http://dlisted.blogspot.com/2006/10/perfect-way-to-wash-down-krispy-kreme.html

I found this on another blog and thought it was interesting.
http://www.energybulletin.net/21231.htm