Stanley W. Shura

@stanws (126)

Stoughton, Massachusetts • Age 53

Joined myLot 7 years ago

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Is it just me?? Alt title "When I was a boy!"

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 9 Nov 18

I dont know if it is a function of age, or "modern times" (including the impact of social media), climate change (natural AND social!) or just the ebb and flow and cyclical nature of life and all its phenomena, but does it seem to...

shootings

hurricanes

growing older

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Where are the terms of use for MyLot?

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 8 Nov 18

I am particularly curious about the rules regarding profanity. I have some poetry I'd like to publish, but this piece I'm thinking of has two well placed f-bombs. Is such a piece allowed?

mylot rules

profanity

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This is a piece I wrote a couple years ago...

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 6 Nov 18

The Wild Line Empty plates served up to lusting poets everywhere, Books of recipes, all pages blank, as hungry readers stare. The stove is cold and barren - pots and pans all put away. The cupboards, too, hold naught but...

poetry

poems about poetry

I wrote this awhile back. Now that November has arrived...

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 2 Nov 18

November Requiem The fallen leaves are singing in jazz harmony. No green remains and hard, brown spikes threaten me. I wish to play among them - adding my own improvisation, but afraid my own hands will merely crush them. What...

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Did Trump Screw up Today?

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 30 Oct 18

Pittsburgh is mourning. A heinous act of evil was committed against the Jewish community, the Pennsylvania community, and yes, the American and world communities. Many of those closest to the carnage and most acutely affected...

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I just wrote this.

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 29 Oct 18

Haunted The howl echoes in the valley this cold October night. A shiver shoots through your shriveled spine. A foul stench flows through the alley. It bespeaks your sober fright. You quiver as the dark beholds a mournful...

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Conflict of Conscience

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 27 Oct 18

If you were a defense lawyer and had to defend someone you know is guilty, could you do it? How? Now, I'm of the belief that it is, by LEAPS AND BOUNDS, better to let 10 guilty people go free than to punish one innocent. It is...

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A Poem: Paint Me Blue

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 26 Oct 18

Paint Me Blue Paint me blue! I don't mean some contrived, cool and creamy calm composed to quell loquacious psyches' sappy compulsion! I don't mean no half-assed, think fast, you ain't gonna last, you been out-classed, your...

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Stuck in the basement!

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 24 Oct 18

Okay, I'm not *really* stuck. I'm just doing laundry. Why not put the load in and come back up to civilization, you ask? 'Cause my lazy butt lives on the 3rd floor! Down three flights, put wash in, up 3, wait, down 3 again,...

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Twenty bucks gone!

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 24 Oct 18

I fell for the hype. I bought 5 mega millions quick picks last week and 5 this week. Times 2 bucks each and that's a Jefferson down the drain. Well, I won a total of 4 bucks, so net gain is negative 16. :P Oh...and I...

mega millions

powerball

new years resolutions

exercise

magical thinking

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The dinner that grazing almost stole!

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 23 Oct 18

Ahhhhhh! Sauteed shallots and cube steak cooked to medium rare beauty, drizzled in Worcestershire sauce. Then sprinkled sparingly with garlic salt, topped with provolone, melted spectacularly! Down the hatch with carrot...

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Stoked for the World Series

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 23 Oct 18

Okay, I admit it. I'm caught up in October baseball. And, yeah. That my home team is contending - AND HOSTING! - the first game might just have something to do with it! One of my coworkers gave me a little perspective last...

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Mustard is an exclamation point item??

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 21 Oct 18

Alright. I was walking around the grocery store today and came upon someone's discarded grocery list. Mustard was among the items listed and it had an exclamation point. Now, I can understand prioritizing and thus underlining...

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Liberals and Conservatives

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 20 Oct 18

I'm listening to a show on NPR and there is this discussion going on about the alleged differences between these two ends of the political spectrum. SUPPOSEDLY: Liberals are freer and messier. Conservatives are wound tight and...

liberals and conservatives

stereotypes

political division

personality

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Breaking through anxiety

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 20 Oct 18

So, I just recently moved into a rooming house after selling my dad's house. He passed in late February and I moved my last things (and me!) out in July. It's taken me several months, but I've finally started using the community...

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Aaaannnnd we're at a billion, folks!

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 19 Oct 18

Yep. The mega millions jackpot is officially over a billion dollars! Yes, when it gets this high, I get excited. And I play. I bought a couple of quick picks...yes I did! As if a "mere" million or two wouldn't change my...

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Money is speech??

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 18 Oct 18

Please vote YES on 2! "Money is speech! And corporations are people, my friends!" Arum...what? This was uttered some years and presidents ago by wanna-be White House occupant Willard Mitt Romney. And this is being bandied...

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The hazards of making nachos in a rooming house!

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 18 Oct 18

So, I'm pining. I'm craving. I'm hankering, even! I want some nachos. But I've gone out to eat several times this month already, and the only good nachos are an hour's drive away. No problem! I have the ingredients. I'll...

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Is there such a thing as TOO much walking?

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 18 Oct 18

So, I have this job where I walk - a LOT. I had no idea how much until I started getting about 35 hours a week - for which I am grateful! My feet, however, feel differently - and I am beginning to feel like an old man! I didnt...

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Gravity: a haiku

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 18 Oct 18

Gravity The leaf falls slowly. Tell me, tree, what do I do to break my own fall?

falling leaf

tree

gravity