Scattered Thoughts from a Scattered Mind: Volume Ii the Doctor Is In

By David Mills

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 16, 2012
• ISBN: 9781479729197

David Mills

David Mills has worked in the field of pneumatic conveying for over forty years. From 1998 – 2006 he was Professor of Bulk Solids Handling at Glasgow Caledonian University. He has published over 170 papers in the field, and has been working as an independent consultant in pneumatic conveying since 1996.

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Copyright © 2012 by David Mills.

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ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4797-2918-0

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Contents

FOREWORD

Machination Manor

Only Silence Answers

Whitney

A Taste of Distant Past

Symbiotic Systems

Sometimes, Rain

All This Happened

Watching

Another

Sound Check

Love By The Minute

Word of Mouth

Basilica

Untitled

Pound for Pound

Soon The Buffalo

Ashes in The Wind

Wall St. Wicked

Vision

Broken Trust

Pressing The Flesh

Headphones on a Corpse

Four Screen Dreams

Gonna’ Fix Myself a Drink

Two Fifteen

Awake

Judgment

The Cone of Uncertainty

While I Play

The Children of Disobedience

An Earlier Estimation

Compromised Positions

Understanding

American Heroes

For Sparky

The Silicone Sisters and The Garden of Eden

Timing is Everything

The Season of the Witch

Something Taken, Something Gained

When Push Becomes a Shove

From Now On

Where the Wind Finds No Sail

Cooking With Gas

Heavy Lifting

Barely Visible

Thoughts From the Observation Deck

For Gail and Ron

Life

Fifty-Nine

Certain Things

Apparition: The Nursery Rhyme

Teen Angel

I Wanna Be a Warlord

Nothing But The Truth

Thimblewood and Tralla-Mae

Champions of The Oblique

For Barber

Tested Tart

Mama Jones

The King of Londontown

Watching (Part II)

Word Perfect

Restoration Blues

Nightbreed

Mind’s Eye

Picture

Anonymous

Quietly

Dallin

Skinheads

Rick

Michael

The Two

The Two (Part II)

So It Is Written

Precipitus, Pennsylvania

Think

If You Only Do This

Culpable Means

Prague

The Jump Rope Rhyme

Broken Mode

Let’s Roll!

Empty

Beyond the Horizons of Birth and Death

For Phyllis

For Neal

A Bell With No Ringer

From This Day to Then

Asylum

Digging It From the Dirt

Forty-Two

For Forrest Toots Moody

Living on the Edge

Gibberance

THE CHALLENGE

Headphones on a Corpse

Think

Soon the Buffalo

While I Play

Apparition

The Cone of Uncertainty

Another

Empty

Pound For Pound

Compromised Position

Understanding

Broken Mode

Asylum

Sweet Magnificent Desire

AFTERWORD

For Mom and Dad

who are absent from the body

but present with the Lord

Foreword

From childhood’s hour I have not been

As others were—I have not seen

As others saw

Edgar Allen Poe, Alone

Yep,

that about describes it.

Welcome to

Scattered Thoughts

Volume Two

DM

Machination Manor

Fouled of pride and patriots,

The union fails by reason,

Results are ever common,

Tumbleweed and treason.

When captains scuttle ships,

They channel Blackbeard ghosts,

True post-traumatic pirates,

They dine before their hosts.

I’ll tell you this to tell you more,

There’s something quite amiss,

Impending doom is gathering,

As our ship begins to list.

No one seems to know or care,

The rocks lie dead ahead,

We comfy-up our comforters,

And watch TV instead.

Weigh the anchor now,

Or we face a Roman pyre,

We’ll wake one day and ask,

I wonder what’s on fire?

Only Silence Answers

The whispering wind now takes,

My mind from troubles’ care,

Consoled by countless endings,

My own, I may soon share.

Attested then infested,

As guidelines shall impair,

The wishing and the waiting,

Rests with those who care.

Ambient inflection,

Soothes the weary eye,

When only silence answers,

I wait for your reply.

Whitney

In the days of dew and roses,

She is silent as she poses,

Another talent laid to rest,

Who tried, but failed the test.

May God now show his love,

As He welcomes her above,

Our Whitney lives on stage of grace,

Redeemed of fall, no safer place.

A Taste of Distant Past

I dreamed again of surfing,

A favorite of mine,

A much