I might. 😂
Nope. Love it.

Oh, no, thank YOU for giving me music I can write to. Normally, I prefer silence or the background noise of a diner. I can't write if there are voices or lyrics. This is perfect.

That would have been great. Maybe I just had a really poorly done example.

Oh, much better than whatever I landed on (on Netflix, I think, and so bad I gave up - it was a foreign language film and to get subtitles I had to also have the audio description on - logical, right? Kind of a mess.)

In theory, but human nature has proven "communism" doesn't work on a large scale. Maybe in a family unit, tribe, or kibbutz. Where there is choice to belong or to leave and protection from corruption and harm from outside.

My first thought was "high" - but now I want an altgeo account.

Wouldn't it be great, though, if they didn't sound like AI narration? I watched a movie, once, with the audio descriptions on - a badly narrated audible book would have been more enjoyable.

That's fun!

sycophantic

Yes, but Senator Kelly will eat then for lunch.

That was my point, not that they weren't good at poetry.

I could probably understand Shakespeare better than I could Ginsburg, at that age. I could decipher the language and the themes were fairly universal.

Your 3rd point reminds me of how I went from enjoying Patricia Cornwell's novels to hating them, then realized it was because she switched from 1st to 3rd person POV and they sounded like she was just phoning it in. It's any writer's entire body of work universally loved?

Did I say the young weren't good at poetry? I started college at 12. An only child, just young enough to have no personal connection in family or friends to Vietnam or Watergate, I took a college level political science course. My frame of reference was the textbook, not lived experience.

"Dogs" is something most people of all ages can understand and relate to. Ginsburg's and Gil Scott-Heron's poems may not be fully appreciated by younger audiences who'd have to do a historical deep-dive to relate (I mean, I wish they had the curiosity to do that, but I'm not sure most will).

Interesting! I like Billy Collins - particularly like to recommend his poems to people who THINK they hate poetry (usually because the poetry they hate is badly written and hard to understand, so it leaves them feeling stupid).

I think maybe all of them do. Some solid, some that have never lived anywhere else.

Really? With Musk as your only neighbor? Rethink this...

The only complaint I've ever gotten on my newsletter (which I mainly use to let subscribers know when I publish a new something on my blog) is that I don't put one out often enough or consistently enough. But then, they knew when they signed up that I promised it would always be free & spam free!

I like those, but have you tried Retaine MGD?

And maybe try the single-use, preservative-free vials, not the drops.

When I still wore contacts, I just squirted a LOT of sterile saline in my eyes. My ophthalmologist now is not amused and so we had to find compromises. Try Theratears supplement too