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My 5-Month Thailand Sojourn
Readers who follow world news may know that Thailand recently saw a military coup which ousted elected prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. And those well read in history might know that at the year zero, the former capital of Ayutayah dwarfed London and Paris in both size and sophistication. I recently spent six months in the Thai province of Phetchaburi, somewhere around 100 miles south of Bangkok. Today, I'd like to share some of what I saw and learned in this land, an ocean away from my hometown of Klamath Falls.
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It Takes All Kinds
Remember that it takes all sorts, paint-spattered bohemians, keen, calculating architects, and lion-hearted men of sports, heroic, bawdy nurses, hard-drinking undertakers,
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A Few Green Thoughts
Recent centuries have seen remarkable events occur on this third rock from the sun, events which superficially center around our species and which have left the Earth organism severely out of balance.
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An Ode To This And That
Here's to highly peppered scrambled eggs with hot coffee on a snowy morning, to those rare, sacred days when the muses sing and one's pen takes wing, to the great continent of Africa where I've never been,
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On Proletariatry and Other Subjects
I write today to those who may find themselves contemplating my poetry. As I look back on all that I've written, sometimes I feel a certain disgust. I see so much self-centered maniacy. But I also see gems of compassionate, universal expression. I could go back and eliminate everything that doesn't fit with my current philosophy. But, after some thought, I've decided to keep it all out there... so the reader can see my voyage of learning.
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