16,181. QUIET ENOUGH?

QUIET ENOUGH?

I'm quiet enough, like that mouse the never

roared, and I stand in issuance of a newer

citation. I should not speak of things any 

longer. Silence is so golden.

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The suburb of Maryknoll? I'd never heard

of it. Wasn't that some religious name thirty

years ago? Monks and cops and police and 

nuns? But in so many ways they're all the 

same. Now I live in a lawless place. No 

cops around, and all is peaceful.

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Beech Lake? Beach Lake? Cheese steak,

hand brake. All these and numbers amount

to nothing. 20 miles in that direction and

I'm somewhere else.