Robert Ronnow Poems

Engineers know
to build in redundancies
when lives depend
not necessarily exact replicas of the primary unit
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Sub-atomic particles
the atoms they form
molecules, cell organelles
cells, machinery of life
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another day in the woods. on Strawberry ridge
looking out over undulating green hills to
the next great wall ridge of mountains. the last
morning clouds left from last night's storm
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The Jewish brothers in Defiance were definitely tough.
One wanted to kill many Germans, the other to save
      many Jews.
The German soldiers were expendable, unmarried,
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There cannot be two identical things in the world. Two
hydrogen atoms
offer infinite locations within their shells for electrons.
Thus, nothing can be definitely eventually known.
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Next to my son's anger
plate tectonics are nothing
to me. His unhappiness
was caused by me.
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Last night's Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire, not
      starring Adam Sandler,
great in the great tradition of Metropolis, Fellini,
      Children of Paradise, Ikiru, Open City.
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Watching Homer struggle
to explain how a god wounded by a mortal
cannot die but may thereafter live with minor pain
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Have some fun.
Presentation of self.
Afterlife functional illusion.
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All conflicts are resolved via coercion, implied or
      applied,
of the dominant party over the denied (Niebuhr) .
Not news at the 2nd St. jail. But the Constitution
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