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2013 I don’t remember any one moment or act that brought myself and my friends to this moment….maybe it was the night we had dinner at Aunt Elaine’s house….she had boiled water for the pasta in tainted water because she had refused to update her data-chip implant, and her filtered water had been cut off….anyway, everyone was sick for days…..lesson all of us present heeded…. things we wanted to do like before seemed out of reach….what with the twice-daily voice-response activated check-ins…. and the ID line-up queue for food rations…. a guy couldn’t just up and go fishin’ for the day….or go hiking in the woods, at the drop of a hat….rumors flew like the wind of people I knew who escaped to the northwoods, never to be heard from again….. some people heard of folks arrested and taken to detention facilities….no one knew where….everyone feared needing any acute medical care…. whether you returned cured…. or returned at all…. was anybodys guess…. I just wanted to go fishin’….. just wanted to go fishin’ © All Rights Reserved

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Date: 12/28/2010 2:28:00 PM
A scary vision of the future. Sounds like you read one of those "revelations" a friend of mine forwarded to me of times to come. Scared me to death ,that dang thing. I will finish here today with your wise and eloquent poetry. Luv, Andrea
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Date: 12/15/2010 5:26:00 PM
wow very scary and hope you are NOT hitting the mark, why are you so scaried?? BIGHUGS!!! Mega BIG LIGHT LIGHT & Love (You can always come with me in 2012 to Macchu Piccu?)
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Date: 11/28/2010 10:42:00 AM
Hoping it won't happen, but think it may if human delusions continue about environment. Like reading an Otavia Butler sci-fi novel in a poem. A very innovative idea and well done.
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Date: 11/26/2010 5:27:00 PM
Great write James. Seriously hope this never happens for real.. Frightenening to say the least when all you want is to go fishing ..a little peace! Love, Audrey
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Date: 11/26/2010 3:36:00 PM
Scary thoughts that you have penned about the future..Sara
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