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Jeff Burkhart’s ‘Rhyme and Reason’: Robbie Burns (An Untimely Contribution)

February 13, 2014 by Jeff Burkhart Leave a Comment

TO WINDSWEPT LANDS WITH SANDY SHORES And gents beguiled by lasses To games of chance and lively dance And whiskey poured in glasses To heavy horses’ hooves that plod And plow through fields of heather And peasant poets farming land No matter what the weather To how things are and how things were When written […]

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Jeff Burkhart’s ‘Rhyme and Reason’: Sanity by Majority

February 9, 2014 by Jeff Burkhart Leave a Comment

WHEN WE DEFINE INSANITY It all comes down to numbers The folks who see things differently Might find themselves encumbered The problem is reality Can be somewhat subjective And therefore our society Needs sanity detectors When a person deviates And starts behaving weird They might get questioned on a couch By men with pipes and […]

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