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Robin Hood Ale

ROBIN HOOD ALE

by Eric Chaet

Peering under sweat glistening lashes
sweeping scraps from beneath big press
building delicate pile
then climbing rungs
straining calf & thigh
dangling shining can
#11 green printer’s ink
filling trough
gathering information
& 2 & 39 hundredths fed’l reserve notes
per spying hour
grabbing 30 steaming 3-ply cardboard sheets
straightening armful with free hand
guiding
dropping into gobbly feeding mouth
over & over all night fast
it’s someone’s machine
who doesn’t even know my name
& whose name I don’t even know
suspicious foreman gnawing cigar
scratching paunch & checking
as press spits ‘em out
green worded:

ROBIN HOOD ALE
ROBIN HOOD ALE
ROBIN HOOD ALE
ROBIN HOOD ALE

THis was used by permission of the author.
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Troglodyte!!

1 Corinthians 13

1 Corinthians 13 (New International Version)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society

1 Corinthians 13

1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.