Category Archives: Philosophy

What Good’s It Do?

Posted on July 4, 2025 by sputterpub

What good’s it do, to trumpet your own praise?Is anybody listening to you?What carries weight in each self-serving phrase?What good’s it do? For even if the claims you make are true,they won’t convince a soul. Are there displaysthat can inspire … Continue reading →

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Super Power

Posted on June 28, 2025 by sputterpub

I daily play at solitaire and win,although sometimes it takes me several tries,wherein I vary how I flip a card,so there’s occasion when I re-begin,or skip an easy move. It’s a surpriseto triumph when the dealt array is hard. Go … Continue reading →

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Indigestion

Posted on June 20, 2025 by sputterpub

I’m still digesting lunch from yesterday.This processing is not about the food.I spent the time exposed to a displayof fundamental blinded attitude.The stories heard served only to conveyrestricted sight and plot ineptitude.I marveled what was then is still what is,relieved … Continue reading →

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Divulgence Indulged

Posted on June 17, 2025 by sputterpub

Loquacious as a child and a teen,and even in her 20’s, more than less,she spoke her mind, aloud, and didn’t meanoffense, but also wouldn’t self-suppress. She learned some modulation as she aged,externally at least, and grew to knowhow bootless is … Continue reading →

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Flags & Amulets

Posted on June 15, 2025 by sputterpub

Considering a flag or banner placedupon a wall or on a window pane,it signifies a welcome where embraceda fellow’d be, distinguished from the mainconveyance of connection to a mastthat serves as call to rally round and sing,to follow into battle … Continue reading →

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Might-a-Beens

Posted on June 3, 2025 by sputterpub

I thought I tucked my phone back in my bag.I crossed the street and then I heard a thunk.It’s luck I turned. It would have been a dragto miss that phone on sidewalk. I’d be sunkif I wore earbuds, or … Continue reading →

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Tower

Posted on May 29, 2025 by sputterpub

At nearly 3 pm, as one can see,I aimed my vision heavenward, becauseon ground were graduates and family,and further out was myriad with flawsof government and personality,of characters without a moral clause.Immediate appeared to me a wreck,so I looked up … Continue reading →

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Opinions

Posted on May 1, 2025 by sputterpub

They say write what you know, and seem to meanrefer to your experience to plota narrative, but who could set a scenewith fatal poison taken? No one’s gotto suicide to write the details right.Some knowledge is required that can comefrom … Continue reading →

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Deus et Machina

Posted on April 10, 2025 by sputterpub

I read the science fiction years ago,before the robots took the name “AI,”when Isaac Asimov thought to bestowprotective laws (at least he made a try).I didn’t note till recently the liethat vanity’d be aped by a machine.But really, why should … Continue reading →

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Unwise Play

Posted on March 26, 2025 by sputterpub

To win the daily challenge solitaire,I had to make two moves I deemed unwise.That’s come to be a metaphor for wheredirect does not prevail. I think AI’sgrown capable of forecasting all triesin solo play, but can’t anticipatewhen plural play is … Continue reading →

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