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The tall tree tune:
The tree’s tasty treat, too tall to take.
The takers thought to take that treat:
they truly tried to tote that tastiness to their treehouse. Tragic.
Taciturn, they turn to their turf; the treat tight to the tree today.
They tried.

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Eighty characters is of course the most ideal length for lines of text or code.
The poetess compares an unreachable apple to some other item: probably a bride.
One cannot miss sweetbitter irony that the source poem itself is lost, unknown.
It is fair to argue against fetishizing the fragmentariness of Sappho's corpus.
For eons, it has been impossible to hear the work as it was intended: what now?
The way we know that 105a is an epithalamium is by its meter, one for weddings.
But is that relevant when the work is just a cited fragment, from a grammarian?
Already the scraps that come to us have been repurposed from their poetic plan.
A poet who survives only from her quotations in other works: as lost as can be.

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To write with just the words that have one beat each is quite a trip.
I had a friend some years ago who did it with an ode by the Spear bard: 
“let me not to the set up of two as one be a guy who would say ‘no, don’t do it’”,
or some such like that. The drum of word word word word wordis strong: it lulls.
And yet some words have long beats still, while some have short.
So the beat of the text is never quite a click track:
it still can change, be raw: draw out some words,
yet flow some words so fast they’re three in one.
The beat of what I’ve writ so far is not the best: it could use work. 
It comes close to a form whose pulse is like a song, but it falls short: it

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Good morning all. This month I am committing to thirty days of writing within constraints, from prompts at
https://github.com/ojahnn/NaNoLiPo2018 . Today, first day of this month which was ninth to old Romans, our
prompt is to avoid using that fifth glyph from said Romans’ list of glyphs.

Many oulipians start to abhor that fifth glyph, as it is so ubiquitous and oft hard to catch in composition.
It is not actual animosity or horror: not a conviction that a glyph is malign. It is simply an outgrowth of 
constraint, as that which limits us turns into our focus. “Do not think of a big mammal with tusk and trunk”
— what can you do but think of it? In a tribulation of your own mind’s landing on a notion to avoid, you must
acquit your mind: must stay its ally! And thus you will indict that notion that it lands on.

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am mdcclv on github.
• I am mdcclv (https://keybase.io/mdcclv) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is 3174 CA29 527B 184D FCB0 60F4 3B70 A537 21CB 23C2

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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vr.addListMember({
  'session_id'  => sid,
  'list_member' => {
    'list_id'     => lid,
    'member_data' =>  [ 
      {
        'name'  => 'email_address',
        'value' => 'email@example.com'
      },
      {

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"Want You Gone", GLaDOS
"No Children", The Mountain Goats
"How Beautiful You Are", The Cure
"No Guilt", The Waitresses
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", Bob Dylan
"Box Elder", Pavement
"Wise Up", Aimee Mann
"Untrustable/Pt. 2 (About Someone Else)" Built to Spill
"Borderline", Madonna
"Thorn in my Side", Eurythmics