Larry Gross

Retired prof, keeps busy with baseball, baseball cards, poetry, sijo

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in ice and sun /
even he is shadow /
the white bear

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Just finished reading: The Book Stops Here: A Mobile Library Mystery by Ian Samson

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The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
==Finley Peter Dunne

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The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
~~~ Franklin P. Jones

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silent house...
grandfather’s wall phone...
old crank...

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Most of us live somewhere between "I can't wait" and "Wait, I can't."

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Ahhhh, the Cubs just lost their second game to the Braves. 0 & 2 -- what a start to the season. Dempster pitched a fine game, though.

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And Monday, the Cubs play the Braves. My two favorite teams....

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Just watched the Red Sox beat the Yankees in the first game of the baseball season. Hurrah....

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How can I make the short lines of a poem appear properly on Twitter instead of all in one line. Frustrating!

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Spring Haiku -- spring breeze /
my nostrils /
plunge into skunk

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Just finished updating my sherlock Holmes pastiche book list. I'm afraid I'm a Holmes nut, no matter the quality of the book.

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I'm waiting forever for a security program from Comcast to download....

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raw february / stopping the meter reader / for morning coffee

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I'm looking for BookMooch....

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by firelight /
the crackling silence /
of lost love

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Eve to Adam:
of all the people I know
I like you best

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in the canyon
everything answers
the wind

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the sound of wind
how to tell it from
the sound of pine

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Ooops. Now it's Rockies, 3-2. Ah well, it's still early.