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Community News 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! Older News

Poem of the Day for 06/14/26 *A Not-So-Sacred Kiss: a tragedy in one act by Mainon A Schwartz [curtain] door [slams] rain [patters] engine [silence] while he revs another. it's your cue. [enter] mainon semipretty face [soaking innocence] [cross stage left, the seat] lips [mashing] with less romance than pro wrestling hands [wandering] less sensation there than in the pain from the audience's laughter. thoughts [distant] here's the [blocking] and [action, no lights] like a movie, it's not real picture [fading like sunset] time [begins] door [slams] rain [patters] engine [starts] pull away, it's your exit. [applause... that was it] [take a bow] [speech] not even quite one year since my lips tasted others and trembled in shame. i've come so far in such a short time, what an achievement. i don't have much further to go. [standing ovation] [curtain] crushed rose petals on the stage cover the ragged shreds of her regret. it's over, that was the break she needed. 10/08/2001 Visit Mainon A Schwartz's Library *A Not-So-Sacred Kiss: a tragedy in one act Copyright © 2026

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