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n.e.s. #191 of 480

October 31, 2026
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Here We Are

Have some Awe

Etch a shwa

Rate it fair

Eh, we’re there

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Random Setter

Recon jets

Aces ease

Nero wept

Donald kept

Own store

More moor

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Safe T Ness

Seratonin

Aspertame

Fosters [Facilitates]

Ecstatics

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Splish Splash

She seeks & grasps

Pads a lock @ the hasp

Leans on a Fella–well

If his mushroom’s portabella

Snuffs a candle w/a hiss

Hits the hay & makes a wish

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Hey You

Hot & gooey

Eager too

Yesterday is dèja vu

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Dive Vers

Danger is a ready shiv

If you want to pass the sieve

Visit Hell but do not linger

Escapades need tricky fingers

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Club Glub

Casino G

Lets a heel

Ugh up you

Bye bye noob

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We are on stage on Earth, mere players. In our life’s time we will play many parts. Enter; exit; enter again, changed. Some day we will play our final role.

William Shakespeare, paraphrased

n.e.s. #189 of 480: Shop Till U Drop

October 23, 2026
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This card is the back of a grocery list that was jam-packed. The one item on this side, “ice cream,” was written by my cohabitant Donna and then embellished by me. The rest of the card was done while Donna was getting her hair done at Great Clips.

Shop Till U Drop (top)

Star dud

Hip spur

Older duo

Plaid soup

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Shop Till U Drop (bottom)

Stray spud

Hilltop hour

OLPH in vacuo

Platelets up

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I grew up in Glendale, Arizona. There was an Our Lady of Perpetual Help downtown, and on a few occasions the Bowers family went to Bingo Night at OLPH. I was under the delusion, that young, that there was such a thing as psychic powers, and I tried to exert my will such that my family would win the Coverall For a Thousand Dollars If You Got It In Fifty Numbers Or Fewer. “OLPH in vacuo” translates to “Our Lady Perpetual Help in a vacuum.”

n.e.s. #188 of 480: Words Fail

October 19, 2026
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Rival Rifle Revel

Rife contention roars its roar

Ignorance’ll frolic more

Voices lift from your TV [Vouching for your POV]

Advocate: Let Reggie Mantle

Let it slip–you never can tell

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Hipshot Fishnet

Hobnobbed with a BFF

It’s a true Roman à clef–I

Paid my deus [sic] struck my poses

Salivated over roses–eh

Up comes revelation when we

Take our stage for gal & gent

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Red E Stet Goop

Resonating syncopating

Entertainment in slo-mo

Dissipate like Perry Como

Enter storm grate and full stop

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Done Deal

Desmond had in Molly goad

Obviously on they rode

Nanny for a reaped alfalfa

Ecumenical falafel

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Words fail.

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I am not a lineman for the County

Nor do I look for an overload

But between the start and end

It is hoped that I append

An Americanan footnote on this road.

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Words fail.

n.e.s. #187 of 480

October 10, 2026
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Photo by Donna Atkins

Here is my latest drawing. It is not finished, but the unfinished nature of the drawing may make this stage of completion superior to what would follow. I’ve dated it “October 2026” just in case I work on it some more; but after October 31st, nothing further.

Details, details

September 8, 2026
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I’ve been working on a larger-scale drawing for a couple of weeks now.

It is ambitious and sloppy at this stage. When I draw quickly it is more improv then plan, but the several acrostics do impose a sequence and a structure.

I am enjoying the different compositions that occur when I crop off details and photoedit them. They seem to evoke unsolved mysteries.

Even when the drawing is finished, the mystery of what is beyond the border will remain. That’s Life, my friends.

n.e.s. #186 of 480: Slow & Yield & Stop

September 2, 2026
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Slow & Yield & Stop

Silly as an ampers&

Lassitudinous

One-ceded relent

We’ll stroll/Wit/Go

& then saddle up

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Fig. 1: Sloth.

Fig. 2: Bar Bar Ian.

Fig. 3: Crossing Guard.

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n.e.s. #186 of 480

[The MYSTERIOUS WOMAN swings her arm downward, and the sign she is holding changes as she says “SLOW & Yield & STOP.” SAje then gyrates with increasing frenzy as she says “DANCE until you Drop.”]

Jumbletron, feat. n.e.s. numbers 182 and 183

August 13, 2026
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Microwaves containing messages and other information pass through our bodies an uncountable number of times a day, thanks to cell-phone technology and radio and stars. Though the above “jumbletron may seem busy unto incomprehensibility, it is laser-neam coherent compared to what a cell tower handles in a single second.

The “Rest Stop” rectangle is the simplest–one word per line, the last one hyphenated.

Ramifications

Entitlement

Seraglio

Two-step

Within each word a smaller word is emphasized.

IF

EME

RAG

OS

The word Eme is “chiefly Scottish” for Friend, according to the Scrabble Dictionary. The word Os indicates a bone, e.g. “os trapezium.” It might also mean the left eye, Oculus Sinister, or Operating System.

Discussion of the other rectangles will probably occur if my manuscript-in-progress ever see the light of day.