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Frank Cotolo
November 7, 2013 |
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Autumn tends to solidify my feelings about season changes. No other season changes with the subtle
brilliance of autumn. Days and nights have different auras about them when summer fades and winter
looms on the horizon.
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Yes, autumn brings out the poet in me as well as it increases a desire for a larger mattress. Autumn
also launches my end-of-the-year appetite, a condition that has killed many of my relatives over
the course of many years' ends.
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As healthy as autumn can be to the pyschogenic literary inspirations, it can be a bitter force
filled with cholesterol, sugar and fat. Usually, it is the end of autumn that provokes the bulk of
binges that make people bigger in bad sections of their bodies. Autumn comes in like a lamb and
leaves like a lion, spitting us all into the dead of winter where we huddle to find security inside
and outside of our mortal frames.
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What we must do is accept autumn and attempt to maintain the soft and lofty emotions it invokes so
that we can attack winter like a dragon slayer, having the ammunition of reserved strength and a
lot of flannel to warm us as we battle the elements. For storms will come and they will render us
senseless at times and force us to buy a lot of white food—milk and bread and eggs - when the
forecast calls for us to be prepared not to travel.
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The comforts of our abodes, or as some people call them, our homes, become more important when ill
winds blow and lawn furniture turns into deadly flying weapons for anyone in their paths. Winter
can be cruel and autumn does little to nothing to ready us for its terrors.
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So here we stand on the precipice of this giant change, part poets and part warriors, partly at
peace and partly enraged; indeed, we are many parts and all of them congeal to a texture of radical
behavior. As the change occurs, so do the wrath of our wrangling and the swings of our arms and the
force of our fists. For sure, the angry poet is fired with passion when the bitter cold covers his
or her frame and bites like a thousand rattlesnakes with the venom of the atmosphere.
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Seek not the shelter of a weak wall that cannot frame your rebellion. Indeed, rattle your saber and
if you cannot afford a saber use a kitchen knife and make the power of autumn’s absence be your
faith in survival. Do not repent - rebel!
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