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Neurontin In The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

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Welcome back my friends to the blog that never ends. I’m so glad you could attend Read along! Read along! There inside this class is some prose that’s pretty crass Be careful as you pass. Read along! Read along! Wow! Emerson, Lake and Palmer would be extremely disappointed at my sophomoric attempt at humor to finish our final writing exercise. I must admit that I have struggled to produce original and interesting content for these blogs. Forty-two years ago, I experienced no such dearth of ideas when composing my prose for my freshman English class. At first, I thought, “maybe, it’s my age.” However, at 86 years old, former US Poet Laureate Donald Hall, and author of my freshman writing textbook, claimed he could no longer write poetry. “Not …show more content…

Two are opioids and two, Neurontin and Ambien, affect the brain in other ways, including short term memory loss. He said it’s very possible they are interfering with my writing skills or journalistic acumen. I’m not sure I’m buying that explanation, either. Samuel T. Coleridge produced two poems of considerable renown while addicted to opium. Who has not had to recite parts of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner or does not remember the lines, “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan\A stately pleasure-dome decree:\Where Alph, the sacred river, ran\Through caverns measureless to man\Down to a sunless sea.” Consequently, I have concluded that my lack of originality must have another cause. Perhaps, my profession for the past thirty-one years could be the cause. Although, in the giddy first days of the computer revolution, my colleagues and I were full of invention and inspiration, an appeal that lured me from a Fortune 500 company, Dun and Bradstreet Corp, to pursue a passion. But, I quickly realized to survive in this competitive field, I needed to specialize in one or two specialties. Although specialization allowed me to send my kids to college, shelter my family and hopefully secure our retirement, it did not allow for originality of

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