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To the City.


To The City

John Ash This article is about John Ash. For other people named Ash, see Ash (surname).

John Ash may refer to several people:
  • John Ash (divine) (1724 - 1779), lexicographer and minister.
 

Talisman House Publishers

PO Box 3157, Jersey City, NJ 07303-3157

1584980370 $12.95 www.talismanpublishers.com

To The City is a work of free-verse poetry that reflects on the paradoxes and hypocracy of humans, as well as the emotions that drive people to achieve their goals. Insightful in a plain-spoken manner, these brief yet impressionable im·pres·sion·a·ble  
adj.
1. Readily or easily influenced; suggestible: impressionable young people.

2.
 works leave a lasting memory of the author's knowledge, insight, and tell-it-like-it-is attitude. "Bastards": Who is a bastard? / Anyone is a potential bastard, / but the real bastard knows nothing, / and will use this against you / like a mallet mallet,
n a hammering instrument.

mallet, hard,
n a small hammer with a leather-, rubber-, fiber-, or metal-faced head; used to supply force or to supplement hand force for the compaction of foil or amalgam and to seat cast
: he will slap your head. // You don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)

"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party.
 this / but you are some kind of statue, / and they want your pedestal.
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