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Archive for May 6th, 2012

Nine of Spades: Perspective

Posted by Angela Brett in Optical Illusions, Writing Cards and Letters on May 6, 2012


Do you first see the arrows pointing up, or the ones pointing down?

Which way do you see things first? (Click the poems for pdf versions you can enlarge and copy the text from.)

Her eyes betray a happy girl whose glum demeanor simulates much worse conditions striking her, he thinks. Whatever hurt lurks It can't be so large her smiles can't hide her feeling it. She must live, privately, in paradise. In paradise, privately she must live her feeling. It can't hide. Her smile's so large it can't be. Hurt lurks, whatever he thinks. Much worse condition's striking: her glum demeanor simulates a happy girl whose eyes betray her.

When we don't know that it will run out there is no questioning we should enjoy the spoils of Earth if exploited with value for money. Destroying wonders while caring for someone is an ideal fix, never creates a disaster. Disaster creates a fix, never is an ideal. For someone caring wonders, while destroying for money, with value exploited of Earth, if we should enjoy the spoils. There is no questioning that it will run out. We don't know when.

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