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Important Update: Transition from pathetic.org to eMuse.org - 03/16/2025
by Gavin M Roy
After years of intermittent development, eMuse is almost ready to launch. As part of this transition, pathetic.org will be shutdown and will redirect to eMuse.org.
What you need to know:
* No accounts will be automatically created
* No content will be automatically transferred
* When creating your new eMuse account, you'll have the option to import your data from pathetic.org
We look forward to welcoming you to the new platform.
Hello, Survivors of 2020! - 01/03/2021
by V. Blake
Please check my post out in the General forum when you have a moment. Thanks!
Stay Healthy - 03/18/2020
by V. Blake
Hope you and yours are well.
A Congratulations to Leonard M Hawkes - 03/27/2019
by V. Blake
..who just published his first volume of poetry! Entitled Leaves from my Box Elder, it comes just in time for the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike.
So, like the title says--congrats, Leonard!
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Poem of the Day for 03/22/25
Cowboy Logic
by Erik Jensen
I.
Fancy words are just that -
A and B are just letters.
It either is or it ain't, and
you, son?
Right now, you ain't.
II.
Friends are your friends until
they don't got your back.
Then, they ain't.
Then you make sure that
they ain't no more.
III.
Not many folks got the good sense
to know they can't hold their liquor.
Drink, drink a storm.
Hell, challenge the town drunk to a moonshine swim.
But – remember -
the living are always one round
behind the dead.
IV.
Shoot or don't. Decide.
V.
Fish tales are a lot like women back home -
everybody's got one and remembers her vaguely, a little prettier
every time she comes up.
Your fish/woman is always a little smaller/less pretty than
anybody else's – or you might have to shoot your way out.
VI.
Sometimes, you're all cattle and no hat.
Sometimes, you ain't.
Make sure everybody knows when you are
and
Make sure ain't nobody can see your hand when you ain't.
VII.
If all else fails, there's always a lawyer like
there's always a Devil.
VIII.
They say dead men tell no tales – that's true.
They can't get a word in edgewise with the livin'.
IX.
Partin' ain't no sorrow when you're a cowboy, and
son, you're ready. So we say goodbye like men, and men
don't say goodbye. We just fade away into the land. 09/17/2009 Visit Erik Jensen's Library
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