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I look at the fun factor.
I'm good at...
Knowing what sells and Knowing what is good are my skills.
Favorite Genres
Murder mysteries.
Least Favorite Genres
Long sad stories.
Favorite Item Types
Murder She Wrote, Columbo and NCIS.
Least Favorite Item Types
Sad, tragic endings.
I will not review...
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Review of An Enigma  
Review by bob county
Rated: E | (4.5)

To fight for a Heavenly cause..
no matter how far.
no matter how hopeless..

Why do we aspire?
Most animals are content.
Humans want more.
Strange little monkeys.

Your Enigma is intriguing ..
How do we know light?
We perceive it with our senses
and interpret.

Keep writing!

Muzzy
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for entry "Thoughts" 
Review by bob county
Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
I'm reminded of a night drive
with my dad. He was 83.
His night vision was not good.
"I can see the headlights." dad remarked
as he drove up the elevated 95 in Boston.
"Pull over!" I pleaded.
"Do you believe in Jesus?" he smiled
as he turned onto an off ramp to
Somerville.
At that moment I believed in miracles.

Nice piece.

Bob
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Review by bob county
Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
It always amazes me to what extent
people will go to suppress free speech.
There really isn't free speech.
But, we kid ourselves out of complacency.
George Carlin remarked, "Nothing is free."
And then he went on to list the obscene words
which must never be spoken.
It's really just a matter of opinion.

Good topic!

Bob
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Review by bob county
Rated: E | (3.5)
Very well written.
You use the other senses to
describe a color to a blind person.
I remember witnessing a blind woman
get hit by a delivery truck in
Harvard Square.
She had heard the walk bell at the
crossing lines, but the driver didn't
see her. The truck was red.

Keep a dream journal
and write what you feel.

Bob
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for entry "HAIKUPHILOSOPHICA" 
Review by bob county
Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
I think it was Archie Bunker,
who said, "I do my best thinking
on the toilet."
Donald Trump is the Beaver,
"Gee. Wally I guess girls
are okay too in pants."
The Don even squints when
he talks, like the Beaver.

Your introspective on
complacency made me ponder
nothingness.
Yes, there is a theory that
something came from nothing.
"Bubbling nothingness."
Richard Dawkins remarked.
Physicist Klause Lawrence
has written a book on nothingness.
I forget the tittle ...
Well, it's probably nothing.

Any who,
your writing intrigues me.

Bob
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Review by bob county
Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
You sound like a Buddhist.
But, then again, aren't we all living
in the mind of God?
I believe the biggest obstacle to peace
is ignorance.
Humanity creates all the evil in the
world from prejudice..
Should have, could have, maybe next year
will resolve our mess...
Or maybe not.

Nice work!

Bob
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Review of Day 10 - 2.5.13  
Review by bob county
Rated: E | (5.0)
This reminds me of Yeats, "The Dead."
Very tight lines full of meaning and
description.
Maybe a bit post Apocalyptic;
Ourselves alone?
"It is forbidden to cross the great
river and look upon the Place of God
this most strictly forbidden.
We do not say its name though we know
its name." By the Waters of Babylon,
Stephen Vincent Benet.

Very well written.

Bob
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Review by bob county
Rated: E | (5.0)
My mother told me not to talk to strangers.
Is this prejudice?
There was an old German man renting a room in my
neighborhood.
My mother told me not talk to that NAZI.
I talked to him.
He was a very nice man and we played chess.

His landlady said he was a soldier in the NAZI army.
I asked him about that.
He said, "Hitler made everyone sign a loyalty act.
Anyone who did not sign was arrested."
He said he never killed a Jew.
I didn't mention my mother was Jewish.
My dad was a redheaded Irish Catholic.
I didn't want a confrontation.
We continued to play chess in the afternoon.

Was I prejudice?

Bob
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Review of The Cycle  
Review by bob county
Rated: E | (3.5)
I felt I was reading a child's image
of death.
It was very sweet and simplistic.
Most people can't imagine their extinction.
So, they dream of fields with happy nymphs
or singing angels or 70 virgins a leaping.
But, we are limited by what we know from life,
If you haven't seen it, then you can't describe it.

Just my two cents..

Bob
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Review of Boys and Girls  
Review by bob county
Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
"Bang-bang! He shot me down."
Kill Bill song.
Children are violent and so are girls.
It is astounding how many films feature
violent women.. Is this feminism ?
I hope there are some polite children.
They are the leaders of the brave new world.
I like your poem ..
It is concise and paints a simple point
in childish play.

Keep writing and keep a dream journal.

Bob
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Review of Cup or Cone?  
Review by bob county
Rated: E | (5.0)
I liked the knife sharpening truck.
Mom would give me some dull knives and
some cash and I'd run out to the knife sharpener
guy, who looked liked Santa..
It was fun to watch him grind the blades
as the sparks flew..
Any who, you dropped "the" in "applied for(the)job".
I think the ice cream man job is vanishing along
with the knife sharpener and shoe repair man.

Keep writing!

Bob
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Review of Death by Sight  
Review by bob county
Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
If we could see ourselves as others see us..
So, a story about a self absorbed murder victim.
I like PBS Murder Mysteries ; Inspector Morse
and Inspector Lewis snooping around Oxford University,
Hercule Pero, the Belgium detective and Sherlock Holmes.
Did you know that our jury system allows the jury to judge
the validity of the law?
A wicked law can be overruled by a jury.

The tome you've woven seems like a rebuke of
the beautiful people.
In every competition there are winners and grudges.
Some people will kill for fame.

Keep writing!

Bob
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Review by bob county
Rated: E | (3.5)
Freud would say your obsessing.
What is grief?
Monks and Priest have a party.
My uncle was a Priest and when he died
we were invited to his party.
The Priest believe that death is rebirth.
It felt like an Irish wake ..
Strange how people deal with death.

Keep writing!

Bob
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Review of Collateral Damage  
Review by bob county
Rated: E | (4.5)
Very Hannibal Lector...
You never know who your going to meet
on Halloween.
It's an odd way to entertain the dead.
But, that's all part of the fun.
I like your coroner, I pictured Quincy Jones
on a bad day.

Keep writing!

Bob
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Review of The Maze  
Review by bob county
Rated: 13+ | (4.0)
"Is it my treasure yur aftarh?" Ben Gun asked.
This fella reminded me of that classic Treasure Island
character.
When I was just a boy I asked my mother what would I be.
She said, "You'll do what your told or get locked up."
Kay-sur-rah!
My how the times are changing..

This was a fun slice of men and mice.
Keep writing!

Bob
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Review by bob county
Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
Nature is violent and selfish.
But, the does not mean we must be.
I have recently turned 53 on the 13 of December.
And I'm reminded of tid-bit of biology ...
From our birth to our death we will replace every
cell in our body. We are not the same person we
once were.
So, who are you?
Every part of you is a collective organism.
Your brain is a network of reflex responses.
Somewhere, you make a decision that it is your identity ..
No one is certain if this is free will.

I like your blog !
Is that my choice?

Vertago
<^>
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Review of Gaia  
Review by bob county
Rated: 18+ | (4.5)
"I am surrounded by mind," you wrote.
Did you mean the mind of Gaia ?
The wasp will sting a grasshopper or caterpillar,
paralyzing it so it can place its eggs inside a
living host to feed on.
Why would a benevolent God devise such cruelty ?
The Aztecs believed in a spider God.
The spider's young devour their mother.

Your prose have a wonder to them, like Alice
down the rabbit hole.
But, nature is not always kind.

Keep writing!
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Review of SIXTEEN IN PARIS  
Review by bob county
Rated: E | (5.0)
I just had the back of my van caved in.
It happened in a parking lot and note was left.
I think I can replace the hatch with one from a junkyard.
Merry Christ-mass!

Jeeze, you were Paris in 1964.
I was born in 1962.
My grandmother was from (I will misspell)
Asance Loraine.
You might have met her. She was a starving artist.
Maybe, we're related?

I like your free verse.

Bob
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Review of THE ORACLE  
Review by bob county
Rated: E | (5.0)
The curse of Cassandra , "She knew the fates of her friends,
but could not change them.." Homer.
I shutter at the life of a flat world believer.
There is only one way out: straight off a cliff.
A monk ask another, "What holds the world up?"
"The world sits on the back of a turtle." the other monk replied.
"But, what does the turtle stand on?" the monk queried.
"Why? It is turtles all the way down." the other monk laughed.

Silly rabbits...

Nice fable.
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Review by bob county
Rated: E | (3.0)
This presents an interesting ethical situation.
Can you steel from a thief?
I like that.
The dialogue reads flat and stunted.
I would like to imagine the central characters in peril
and desperate...
Are they being pursued?

Just my two cents.
And thanks for your reviews.

Bob
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Review by bob county
Rated: 13+ | (3.0)


Voting booth juiced?
In Maine, Reverends preach against liberal
atheist and lawlessness. I have heard a Priest
say that immorality comes from a lack of faith
in God.
Have they read the Old Testament?
Leviticus 23 calls for the execution of homosexuals
and adulterers. That's a violent divorce.
If the Republicans try to take away Row vs Wade ,
they will never be elected again.
News flash! Donald Trump is pro-choice!

Can't we all just get along?
Nope.

666
V

Your poem was elegant and amusing ~

"Stereotypes firmly trajected."
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Review by bob county
Rated: 13+ | (5.0)


We born dreamers. There is the NOW in all of us.
I remember a story about the world's end.
A hero travels to the edge of the world to find God.
He can see the waters of the world falling off the edge
the world into the stars. But, he does not see God.
And so he looks back toward the land and knows the NOW.
Gilgamesh.

You have the NOW.

Bob
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Review by bob county
Rated: E | (2.5)


The gist of this is that a horse dreams about being a unicorn.
But, the syntax is very jumbled and there are several incomplete
sentences and run on sentences.
The tail is curious . It appears to be about a horse, rather than a fair maiden.
The traditional unicorn story is about a maiden enchanted by a unicorn.
The unicorn is attracted to her innocence and virginity.
You need to shorten your sentences and pick up the pace.
This yarn rambles ... Maybe, introduce a prince or woodsman?
Have you read Midsummer's Nights Dream?
There are mythical creatures and a maiden.

That's my two cents.

Bob
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Review by bob county
Rated: E | (3.0)
Is this a commercial?

Okay, if someone is upset they will have indigestion.
So, they should get a massage?... Rhode Island is
a state with many massage parlors and legalized
prostitution. Does the Hindu religion permit prostitution?
I am suspicious of prostitutes. They give me indigestion.
But, thankfully, I have no herpies.

Your essay is giving me the munchies.

Muzzy
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Review by bob county
Rated: E | (3.5)


Two men were shot dead at an art exhibit in Texas
of cartoons of Mohamed. The two suspects were trying
to shoot their way into the exhibit. Are these Islamic extremist
terrorist? Why is the penalty for drawing an image of Mohamed
death? And is the penalty for leaving the Moslem faith death?
I do not see tolerance of critical free thinking in Islam.

Is it fare to say the Moslem faith does not tolerate skepticism?

Shalom +

Muzzy
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