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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 11/12/26 Pyromania by David Neubauer Any colors that nature, someway, can produce, intrigue me. I like the neon, the pastel, the rediculous, the absurd. It's common knowledge that the brighter the color the more the danger. The more the draw to play with it, as moths play with the flame. Take some charcoal. Black lumps, sitting there. Set them aflame. Orange licking, changing to gray, to ash. Take a stick, a stray piece of bark. Dip it lovingly into the flames that still lap at the charcoal. Watch the neon orange slowly run it's way down the length, growing brighter in the oncoming wind. Turn, and shelter this creeping color, and it slowly dies. Play with it in the wind once more, and here it comes, faithfully back, just as bright as ever. The heat of fire, while nice, is secondary. The true love comes from flying shapes, morphing constantly, and the amazing interplay or oranges, reds, and blues, all in shades of neon. 02/05/2002 Visit David Neubauer's Library Pyromania Copyright © 2026 David Neubauer

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