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Intersection of Salem Avenue with Second Avenue, Roanoke, VA, July 2022

(Before Second Avenue becomes Gainsboro Road heading north at the overpass.)

I can’t emphasize enough what a quiet city this is.  What you see is what passes for a somewhat busy Tuesday morning.



Eric Robert Nolan reads “Haiku for a Coy-Eyed Girl”

Feign innocence, you
sly, lascivious dove, you
feral butterfly.

(c) Eric Robert Nolan



(And I demand upbeat musical numbers.)

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It’s all politics?

So my last letter to the editor (about mandatory school prayer) was distributed to a readership of about 470,000 readers.

Not the biggest number ever (and there’s no telling how many consumers actually read the letter), but it’s still a nice number.

Writing about politics or current events will garner you a far greater audience than poetry.



So this is what the aftermath of a rockslide looks like.

This happened back in January 2021 off Orange Avenue here in Roanoke, Virginia.  Although the business was destroyed, thankfully no one was hurt.



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THE TRUTH IS UNIMPEACHABLE.

Buddy of mine picked up fresh peaches from Ikenberry Orchards in Daleville, Virginia.  THE TASTE IS DIVINE.  This is bliss.

God bless the American South.



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The Scarlet Witch is so badass.

They should have called the second Doctor Strange movie “Doctor Strange: Not All Who Wanda Are Lost, Bitches.”



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A surprise houseguest.

Do tiny spiders flex their fangs when they’re threatened?

I honestly do not know. I can barely keep “entomology”/”etymology” straight.

That sound you hear is my coffeepot.

Update — my arachnophile friend informs me that this is a crab spider.



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“Nam-ouch-e.”

“The back pain in me greets the back pain in you, Fellow Fortysomething.”

— from the Oxford New English Dictionary, 31st Edition



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