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Bush     </div> <div> Your Pass     </div> <div> Uncle Louie and the Sun     </div> <div> Sure     </div> <div> Becoming The Cleveland Bard     </div> <div> The Birth Of Wonder     </div> <div> See Puff Drive The Dragon     </div> <div>      </div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Venus In Retirement</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Venus had tired of endless loving</div> <div> and so retired to Carolina,</div> <div> where she spent her passion as a flytrap,</div> <div> flies being so much sweeter than men.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>One Use For George W. Bush</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> All alone,</div> <div> even with the cat</div> <div> on my lap,</div> <div> I lapse into</div> <div> self-pity,</div> <div> the usual style</div> <div> for morbid poets,</div> <div> until I remember</div> <div> the president</div> <div> trying to speak,</div> <div> and after the anger</div> <div> dies,</div> <div> I begin</div> <div> to laugh.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Venus in Retirement</div> <div> is a 28 page hand-sewn chapbook - $7.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE </div> <bR> <div> <B>            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Venus in Retirement"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="06-18"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="7.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>     </B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id151.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering by Mail"><U>To order through mail click here</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </BODY>