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Thoughts - Part V

This is a short post.  Only two thoughts today.  Two thoughts on any given day is something like a bonanza.  Most days there are no thoughts whatever. 

Drama.  This is a cinematic venue that depends on dialogue - occasionally style or setting.  There are two successful forms. The first is to have a reasonable story with enough action to keep the guys awake.  The second is to have a superlative script you might listen to even without the film.  The later is very, very rare.  There are countless unsuccessful attempts to achieve either. Dramas usually have a short longevity.

The Kiss.    Such an intimate expression of humanity this is. Many forms of the kiss there are, just a lite touch of the familial.  Yet so very close.   The kiss of death, of love, of fortune, of resignation or revelation, of the future or past, of betrayal, of finality, of life. It can be carnal, or tender, or continuing of relationship.   An osculation is something like a kiss though in generic terms and interpretation. It seems less, though it is so much the same.   Such a term, the kiss, has too many facets and too many meanings.   Which is the kiss you seek?  Which is the kiss coming your way?

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