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JONATHAN PENTON owns his own vanity press

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:1-3

Jonathan's works here at Unlikely Stories are:

2001:
Message	You are nothing without patience
Not to cheapen the experience	Knowledge kills faith
Once upon a time	God and I sat down for poker and chess
Don't Let Me Give You a Title	When did you lose
Laptops at the Coffee Shop	You bleed me 'til I'm cold
Your peasants are in revolt again	This Much Grief I Do Not Believe
The Librarian, Twenty Years Later, in a More Public Place	What Do You
I Can Do this Better Drunk	Wait

July 1999 - July 2000:
In the End	I Have a Fantasy
This Is Where It Gets Tricky	Waiting
There Were Almost Tears	down
Plums	Don't Tell Me
And I Am Still Naked	And in that Moment
The Next Situation	Let Us Pray
I Don't Care What You've Heard	December 30th
Peachtree and Broad	Down on Broad
Back to Broad

July 1998 - July 1999:
Family History	it's not that i don't like your lies
Careful Careful	I Need a Mantra
Predictability	Never Write a Poem about a Poem
A Quick Read	Controversy?
I Decided to Spend the Night	Why Stop There
We Were Younger Then	To Sink Slowly, You Need
What Holy Rite	In a Hot Atlanta February
Lucky Isaac	Staring into the Fire
First Day of Autumn	Alright
E	Dichotomy
ANXIETY (a chant)	Better That We Not
Growing Old	I Want to Kiss the Lips of a Girl
You Look Like a Toy to Me	If Nothing Really Matters
Color Is a Fiction	God Is a Can of Zyklon-B
Lithium	Nothing
saying Yes is the greatest of privileges	This is the Type of Loneliness
The Worst Nightmares Are Dreams of Hope	I Want to Tear out Your Tongue
Sins	Stillness
Cleansing	I Only Want a Taste
I Have a Knife	i see snow
There's a Layer of Darkness Beneath the First	A Final Manifesto
Mail for the Dead	The Night Is Rather Warm
We Are Building a New Dominion	If Your Dick Feels Cold
When I Am Frightened	Independence
Temple	Joan of Arc
These Roses Are My Excuse	Arias
Leon	Education
The Ballad of '79 (availible as an Acrobat file)

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