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Smalljones aka Paul Jones
@smalljones.bsky.social
No longer a person of interest.
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Something Wonderful (2021), Something Necessary (2024)
Recent publications: smalljones.com
Womanhood, wanton, ye want
John Skelton, Laureate

Womanhood, wanton, ye want:
Your meddling, mistress, is mannerless;
Plenty of ill, of goodness scant,
Ye rail at riot, reckless:
To praise your port it is needless;
For all your draff yet and your dregs
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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50389/...
“Womanhood, wanton, ye want”
Good mistress Anne, there ye do shail: What prate ye, pretty pigesnye?
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Slowly filling up

Wordle 1,608 5/6*

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November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I call this number
I call this number
For a data date
For a data date
I don't know what to do
I don't know what to do
I need a rendezvous
I need a rendezvous

Computer love
Computer love
Computer love
Computer love

youtu.be/wFoToZ9caDg
Computer Love (2009 Remaster)
YouTube video by Kraftwerk - Topic
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November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Robots are Coming
-Kyle Dargan

with clear-cased woofers for heads,
no eyes. They see us as a bat sees
a mosquito—a fleshy echo,
a morsel of sound. You've heard
their intergalactic tour busses
purring at our stratosphere's curb.
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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58202/...
The Robots are Coming
How many times have we dreamed it this way: the Age of the Machines, postindustrial terrors whose tempered paws—five welded fingers —wrench back our roofs, siderophilic tongues seeking blood, licking ...
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hmmm

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November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Hoping and hoping as if with my weak faith
The spirit of this world would heal and rise
Vast are the shadows that straddle and strafe
And struggle in the darkness troubling my eyes
Shaped like a lion, it has the head of a man
With a gaze as blank and pitiless as the sun

youtu.be/D9hVOsuKuMY
Joni Mitchell - Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1998)
YouTube video by Joni Mitchell
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November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Second Coming
-WB Yeats

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somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and eve...
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
So so oh

Wordle 1,606 4/6*

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November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
In the Library
-Charles Simic

There's a book called
"A Dictionary of Angels."
No one has opened it in fifty years,
I know, because when I did,
The covers creaked, the pages
Crumbled. There I discovered

The angels were once as plentiful
As species of flies.
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poets.org/poem/library
In the Library
There's a book called
poets.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Mr. Jones and me
Stumbling through the barrio
Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women
She's perfect for you
Man, there's got to be somebody for me
I wanna be Bob Dylan
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone
Just a little more funky
When everybody loves you

youtu.be/-oqAU5VxFWs
Counting Crows - Mr. Jones (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by CountingCrowsVEVO
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November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
More or less okay

Wordle 1,605 4/6*

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November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Church Going
-Philip Larkin

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Since someone will forever be surprising
A hunger in himself to be more serious,
And gravitating with it to this ground,
Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in,
If only that so many dead lie round.

thepoetryhour.com/poems/church...
Church Going - The Poetry Hour
Once I am sure there’s nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, and stone,...
thepoetryhour.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Why must we hide all these feelings inside? Lions & lambs shall abide
Maybe one day we'll be strong enough To build it back again
Build the peaceable kingdom Back again

The People have the power to redeem the work of fools

youtu.be/SUlNixgSQIA
“Peaceable Kingdom” - Patti Smith (LIVE on The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Yes afterall

Wordle 1,604 4/6*

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November 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I can hear the ocean roar!

Wordle 1,603 3/6*

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November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Beach
-Stanley Plumly

The end, I think, will be a little like looking down as far as I can see to where the wind has kicked up the tide and turned it all the same—sea, spume, the air. There might even be someone walking toward me, [...]

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Beach
The end, I think, will be a little like looking down as far as I can see to where the wind has kicked up the tide and turned it all the same—sea, spume, the air. There might even be someone walking to...
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Dove nested towers, the hour was
Strike the street, quicksilver moon
Carriage across the fog
Two-step to lamp lights cellar tune
The laughs come hard in "Auld Lang Syne"
The glass was raised, the fired rose
The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting

youtu.be/9DRtMBowKRs
Brian Wilson - Surfs Up Live.mpg
YouTube video by Rusty Morris
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November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
That was hard

Wordle 1,602 3/6*

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November 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Not Completely Unknown
With real people as themselves

youtu.be/G7iES0u2LBs
Newport & the Great Folk Dream
YouTube video by Kim Bledsoe Lloyd
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November 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Devotion
-Richard Jones

“Poetry not rest,” is trouble’s answer,
rising before the sun, setting out
in a gray light to the dull grumble
of thunder to balance the words
bottle or old wooden chair or bluebird
on a line’s life-or-death tightrope,
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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154343...
Devotion
“Poetry not rest,” is trouble’s answer, rising before the sun, setting out in a gray light to the dull grumble of thunder to balance the words bottle or old wooden chair or bluebird...
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I hate rhymes
Wordle 1,601 5/6*

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November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This is why the cowbell was invented.

Time has come today
Young hearts can go their way
Can't put it off another day
I don't care what others say
They think we don't listen anyway
Time has come today

youtu.be/_I4S61Do-Qs
Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today (live)
YouTube video by nokewan
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November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Clowntime is over
Time to take cover
While others just talk and talk
Somebody`s watching where the others don`t walk
Clowntime is over
A voice in the shadows
Says that his men know
He don`t step back as expected
He`s otherwise and unprotected
Almost too good to be true
youtube.com/watch?v=0R9K...
Elvis Costello: Clowntime Is Over: (Live Rockpalast) - 1983 {Best Version}
YouTube video by TheWilliambrew
youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"Together, we will usher in a generation of change. And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Impressive or so it says
Wordle 1,600 3/6*

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November 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM