Poems Times Six

Frida

Spitting out her beauty and disgust,
She jiggled ghosts and skeletons,
Emptied blood and I was there.

I cleaned up her mess,
I fed her dog and I made her bed.

I watered the garden by the pyramid
And it blossomed.

In life or death, I must see her again.

She's just like me;
God and the devil
Wrapped up in one tamale.

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Rome in a Day

Rome sits on its seven haunches
And the pines, with fountains in their branches,
Old road markers in the Appian sun,
Are stolid, green and well run.

A conservative morning begins with dawn
And makes its logical way as a pawn
Is moved one square at a time to Noon.

It seems all right, but I'm
Conscious of a skip in my heartbeat,
And the day pops like corn in the heat
Of a sudden three o'clock.

The wrench of time ticks in my ears.

I hunch my watch into a shadow to hide
It's face from the white glare.

Inside the gold hands turn green and catch
On the number six.

I light a match to see if they will stick there
As the fountains, with pines in their sprays, share
Their fate, dwindle and dry in the light
And Rome gets marching into the night.

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A Swallow Speeds On

Morning: Two eggs, coffee with cream.

A fly noisily zigs and zags.

Noon: Ham and cheese on bread.

A butterfly silently flits and flits.

Evening: Steak and French Fries.

A hummingbird looks on while hovering.

Night: Four cookies and milk.

A bat menacingly zooms.

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Tidepool

Invent the waves and vivid pools with me,
Cool, industrious, dibbling at our toes,
And let your knees snatch back at laps of sea.

Wade deeper toward the hole where seaweed grows,
Kick lively now, hitch up your sagging suit
And hold my hand.

If you cannot see, loosen your grip, sit on my friendly foot,
Relax and let your hair float out to me.

I'll pull you to a swirl for us alone
Where we can touch and float asleep or wake
And be content awhile with what we've sown.

To love where all we give is all we take,
As fishes waken from their restless sleep
To watch us drifting till we're in too deep.

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Medical Exam

Two soldiers, one all white, one all red,
Guard the north wall of the cubed room.
Squat, each with a pedal
To open the lids hands-free.

Fourteen inches square, fifteen high,
Steel with polished mechanisms,
Spare, utilitarian,
Made in Switzerland.

Plastic liner bags skirt the tops,
Peek from the edges of the covers
Like play-filled children unready for sleep.

The sentinels neither bark nor rattle.

They stand so white and so red
Keeping all predators at bay.

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At The Center

"In Emergency Push To Open,"
The automatic doors read on the unwashed, dribbly glass.

The further, outer door carries the same remark.

Between the first and second lies a cross-hatched
Block-built carpet, mole-grey brown.

The door to the entrance-garden has the same dribbles
And moves just as automatically.

Inside the inside, thick nurses, men and women, pad by.

Television gurgles softly, patients and personnel murmur,
Little clicks and taps identify heels and wheels,
Medical machinery and dropped tongue depressors.

Outside the outside, greenstuffs, and
Traffic tooting and squealing.

Between the inside and the outside lies a
Cross-hatched, block-built, mole-grey brown
Carpet.

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Profit From Time Management

You deserve your success. To excel in insurance business, you need neither huge capital nor state-of-the-art technology. The most valuable capital you have is time. Top producers in insurance business can always secure more sales than the rest when they have the same 24 hours a day just like what others have.

One of the stumbling blocks that stand in the way between you and your success is time wasters. Times wasters are the culprits that rob you of your valuable time and also your success. Are you an easy target of time thieves?

Let's view the profile of time thieves so that you can nab them:

(a) Procrastination

Are you always hesitant? Procrastination serves no purpose but only delays work, decreases your efficiency, damages your self confidence, and makes people lose faith in you.

One of the reasons why you hesitate or procrastinate is because you aspire to be a perfectionist. Perfectionists are not head-and-shoulder above the rest. Perfection is only an illusion. There is no perfection. In fact, one must have some defects in order to be perfect.

Insurance agents should focus on action instead of perfection. Do not waste time on unnecessary tiny and trivial details. We don't expect ourselves to be 100% perfect in our knowledge and skills before going out to the field. Striving for perfection delays your success, it also brings you frustration and dissatisfaction.

(b) Feelings of guilt and grudges

Are you bringing our emotional baggage to work? Are you allowing your anger and remorse to distract your attention? Negative emotions are your liability. They embezzle your precious time with your consent and collaboration.

Just imagine the amount of time we spend to blame ourselves or someone else. Just imagine the amount of hours we worry about other people's thoughts and opinions. By the time we finish lamenting our misfortune or bad luck, we would have been poorer by a few hours. At the same time, many opportunities would have slipped through our fingers.

(c) Being unorganized

Do you always find yourself entangled in your work? Are you always trapped or lost in the files and folders you created? Do you always spend time looking for a document that seems to have vanished into the thin air?

One the average, one spends an hour a day searching for files, document or information. If we are able to arrange our files and folders in locatable manner, we will have saved one hour a day or 365 hours a year or 15 days a day. We could have additional 15 days at our disposal if we have a proper filing system in place.

(d) Telephone

Telephone brings us convenience but at the same time it is also a very seductive time waster. If we are not careful, we can be hooked on the phone for hours at the expense of success.

Plan for your phone conversation and make sure we hang up the phone when our objectives are met. Once the phone is through, precondition long winded chatters that you have only so much time to talk.

Knowing we are surrounded by time thieves who are always on the look out to snatch precious time from us, we can employ the following strategies to ward off time wasters:

(1) Get yourself a time guard

We tend to display the brighter side of ourselves to other people. Let your friends or associates know you are working on a few big cases this week. Let them show their concern over your progress. Whenever you have tough time answering their queries, you will feel the pressure to meet the sales target you set for yourself.

(2) Synchronize your activities with your biological clock

Are you a lark or an owl? When is your most productive time? If you are a morning person, morning is your prime hours. If you are an owl, you are more active in the afternoon. Match your activities with your active hours.

Do not spend time doing paper work when you feel you have so much energy to do a lot of great stuff. Use your prime time to work on primary tasks or assignments that are important and urgent.

(3) Capitalize on waiting time and fractional time

Make better use your waiting time or fractional time. While waiting for a cab or waiting in line at a grocery or in traffic jam, you can call prospects or customers for appointments or referrals. You can also read a sales article or jot down a sales idea that pops up in your mind.

You have all the reasons to safeguard one of your most valuable assets - time. Do not let time wasters rob you of your time of your success.

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Why You Should Take Identity Theft Seriously

The Internet has made communication easier and there's no doubt about that. The greater concern is that with each rise in technology that people have been enjoying, drawbacks keep rising as well. Emails, for example, are the fastest way to reach someone on the farthest side of the globe but they're also the easiest for unscrupulous elements to pry into users' affairs and steal confidential information. You don't even need analytical skills or any other complex thought process. You simply have to know the technicalities of information technology and then it becomes a breeze to look into people's lives, rob them of their identities and create a mess out of their lives.

This article is, of course, not about thieving people of their personal details but protecting them from those who could be. It's good to start from your good old email and how this could be the fastest route to snatch personal information. Perpetrators are going to send you messages that tell you anything from how to be a millionaire in three days to being recipient of a dying millionaire's fortune. Then they'll tell you to open an attachment or click a link that comes with the message. If you're not aware that these are cons, you'll probably believe them, download that attachment or click that link. Seconds later, the sender of the message starts fishing for your information, thanks to that virus you had unknowingly installed in your computer when you did just as they told you.

In this kind of scenario, the question would always be how to prevent it from happening again. This is not a million dollar question and the answer is probably obvious. Get anti-virus software. The problem is when you actually get the software, install it in your computer and not commit to requirements of the program. For example, anti-virus software will often come with an auto-update feature which allows it to update itself regularly so new bugs are detected when they attempt to infiltrate the system. Sometimes, people install their an antivirus but don't bother to check its options, including the one that allows for auto-updates.

When you talk of identity theft, it's impossible not to talk of spyware which makes anti-spyware another must in your computer. This is a program that blocks codes designed to spy on your information. Spyware won't necessarily damage your system like viruses do but they can damage your financial life once they start spying on your banking usernames and passwords and reporting these to their master. Soon, you'll start seeing miracles on your credit card bills. And then you'll have a hard time recovering from your crashing credit score and if you're not resilient enough, you'll probably even go bankrupt.

Panic, however, is the last thing you'll want to do. As long as you do your part simply by being sensible in your online activities, you should be fairly safe. For example, never download files from any website whose integrity is not proven, decline requests for cookies and ignore emails that tell you to click on suspicious links. In other words, do not seek sites that will probably make you a victim.

On the other hand, you're going to need to protect yourself from hackers who will be seeking you. This is where an IP hide software becomes useful.

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Work at Home Moms - How to Find Time For Business When You Have Small Children

How does a work at home Mom find time for her home business especially when the children are young and need much attention? Follow these 5 steps for creating more time for business and enjoy the rewards of both, being a Mom and working from home.

5 Steps for Creating More Time for Business:

1. When children nap, Mom works on business. It's too easy to do housework as soon as there is a window of opportunity. Learn to designate quiet time as the time you work at your home business.

2. Teach kids to work with you. Allowing children to "help" with household chores teaches them responsibility no matter how young they are. Make it a joyful time spent together and they will anticipate chore time.

3. Teach self-entertainment. Over the years I have developed many methods for my children to entertain themselves when I needed uninterrupted time. All of these methods had to be presented with much enthusiasm and making it a very special privilege would guarantee their interest.

4. Plan ahead. When your children are very young or demand a lot of your attention a different plan of action must be incorporated. Plan your tasks ahead of time and whenever you have an opportunity snatch those moments to work on completing the outlined tasks. When you have larger blocks of time lay out as much work for the next work sessions, as possible.

5. Hire a Mommy's Helper. I was fortunate to have teenagers in my neighborhood looking for job opportunities when my kids were young. It was a lifesaver to have someone I could call on during my extremely busy times of business.

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Dmx Intro It's Dark And Hell Is Hot

[DMX:] Told y'all niggaz Ya just don't listen Why must you be hard headed Tried to explain, but ya didn't hear me though Ya know, grrrrrr Uh One two one two, come through run through Gun who, oh you don't know what the gun do Some do, those that know are real quiet Let me think you wanna try it, fuck around and start a riot Niggas gonna buy it, regardless because I'm the hardest rap artist and I'ma start this Shit up foreal, get up and feel, my words I make herbs split up and squeal Ill is all I've been hearin lately Niggaz hate me, wanna duck tape me and make me put their brains on the wall, when I brawl Too late for that 911 call Niggaz stay beefin but a lot of them bluffin But not me because I'ma nigga that can get out of them cuffs You think a lot of them tough Not just for frotin When I hit them niggaz like 'What you want' the battle turns into a hunt With the dog right behind niggaz chasin em down We all knew that you was pussy but I'm tastin it now And never give a dog blood because raw blood I have a dog like one bitin whatever All up in ya gut Give it to them raw like that and ain't no love I do em all like that Four right up in they back Clak Clak Close your eyes baby, it's over Forget it, happened in front off your buildin but nobody knows who did it What Where my dogs at What what Where my dogs at Uh Where my dogs at What what Where my dogs at Uh Where my dogs at What what Where my dogs at Uh Where my dogs at What what Niggas is pussy Keep me runnin from the ...

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