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Jeff Reed

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Walnut Creek, CA 94596
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Jeff Reed

  • Chiastic Poetry
  • The Strange Sum of Things
  • Poems
  • Songs
  • Sea to Sea
  • Animagus Extinctio
  • Psalm 37 Menagerie
  • Butterfly Glory
  • Books
  • ABOUT

NINETEEN

March 26, 2025 Jeff Reed

some things cannot be done:

make a world with no first cause

rewind actions once begun

love both money and God

get ahead by going first

govern by executive command

remain untouched by the Eden curse

score nineteen with a cribbage hand


Note:  It is not possible to score 19 with a five-card cribbage hand.  Sometimes a hand that scores 0 is humorously referred to as a “19-point hand” by cribbage players, a phrase that also serves well as a metaphor for the hubris of anyone attempting to do, or assert, the impossible.

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