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today i got to thinking about aye-ayes.

aye-ayes live only in madagascar.

they have batty ears,

very creepy eyes and hands.

there is a superstition

among the natives of madagascar

that aye-ayes are an omen

of death.

some tribespeople claim

an aye-aye will not hesitate to sneak into your house at night

and use it's middle finger to stab your heart.

for this reason most tribespeople

kill aye-ayes on sight.

evil as they may be,

aye-ayes are pretty naive.

they walk into villages

looking for mangos and coconuts.

hold out your arm,

they will climb fearlessly to your shoulder.

for some reason

they aren't afraid of humans.

even though humans can be bad luck.

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some uses for the moon

it pulls the loose threads

the salty waves

unraveling tides

swiftly, to keep dry the towns

and sandals on doorsteps

but the same mirror's

hanging over landlocked countryside so

a drunk couple on the roof

looks as if they'er in front of it

they may fall off

their tongues gracefully glide

and any old barn swallow

tiny and perfectly brown

can wake trembling from a nightmare

tilt round head to see the glowing rock

and know the sun hasn't gone out

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I keep picturing all these little kids

playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands

of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big,

I mean-except me. And I'm standing on the edge of

some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch

everybody if they start to go over the cliff-I mean

if they're running and they don't look where they're

going I have to come out from somewhere and catch

them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the

catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the

only thing I'd really like to be.

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my favorite librarian

thought this was a tattoo today.

this made me wonder

if it were a tattoo,

how many people

would think it was just a drawing?

i wanted this at the bottom of the page but technical wizard that i am could not figure out how to do that. i will have to get my smarter sister to help me.

willard wigan

two of us

lemons

''one thing i've learned. they have no respect for the integrity of the chicken's body.''

this movie made me sort of sad.