Annette Gagliardi

Liars figure and figures lie

Pinochio graphic (0_vUThScVrWznJYbkf.png) from  ” 73.6 % of statistics are made up “ by Mark Suster on Feb. 15, 2010, How to Interpret Analyst Reports by Money Life at: https://www.moneylife.in/article/736-percentage-of-all-statistics-are-made-up/3794.html) This article is only 50% of what it could be—if I was a statistician. But it is 89% more reliable than what many others will […]

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Natural High

Terrestrial Ponds                    I dine on lake kale-emergent plants such as rushes, reeds, buggy whips & tule. I hide in the edges of sedges— bulrushes that mimic my roundness; the better to camouflage and hide inside; the better to ambush unsuspecting baby bass or walleye and ride the tide among the cattails and marsh

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A Confession

Broadway Avenue Panhandler Misery gazed through beer-stained blur, Despair in faded jeans; enslaved by his habit, his outstretched claw beseeched me donate to his cause. A ghost begged another ride on his addiction. His wretchedness reached out and slapped me lonely; the squalid secrets of his torment displayed like a porno movie. An apparition of

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