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Derek Earl Houghton Poems

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Love can not be proof of itself. It's participants are the only proof of it.


Derek Earl Houghton

 
 
 

Questionnaire


The Wounds Personality Test Questionnaire

There are no right or wrong answers.

Check off true or false.

Use pencil only.

Read the instructions carefully.

There are no trick questions

Cell phones are not allowed

Be sure you have answered all questions

Before you go to the next page.


Do not scrawl “ All of the above”

Or “ Fuck This “

In a grand gesture of impatience.

We know what we are doing .

You are being processed whether you

Like it or not.


Answer the questions truthfully.

When the bell rings stop writing immediately.

And return your completed test to the examiner

Do not write in the margins or try to explain

The wounds life has left you with.

We don’t care.

Our interest is what you can contribute

To the Organization.

Your pain has no place here.




The wound life leaves you with

The wounds he was left with

The wounds you are left with

The wounds she was left with

The wounds we are left with.


Job Questionnaire


Please answer yes or no

Please check off true or false

Read the directions carefully

Make sure you understand  the rules

Answer one to ten

Make sure you’ve answered

all the questions

Before you move on

If you can’t answer the question

move on to the next

Return to the  question you where uncertain about

once you have  completed test

If you have time



The wound life leaves you with



answer yes or no

check off true or false

Read the directions carefully

Make sure you understand

Answer one to ten

before you turn the page

Make sure you’ve answered

all the questions

Before you move on


The wounds he was left with . (Plural)


have your pencil ready

No pens allowed

You may   change your mind.

You may wish to erase a previous answer.

This test is multiple choice

So read the instructions carefully

Before you start

There are no second chances

There won’t be any make up test

So just answer yes or no before you turn the page

Answer questions as honesty as you can

There are no wrong answers

The wound she was left with with. (Singular)


There is no right or wrong

There are no answers in the back

There are no trick questions

Leave your phones at the door

Bring your dreams nothing more

When the bell rings just put your pencils down

You’ve got twenty years to life


The wounds they where left with.


Its just our way of finding out


All of the above is the wrong answer.




have your pencil ready

Do not use a pen

You may change your mind

This test is multiple choice

Read the instructions carefully

Before you start.



There won’t be any make up test

So just answer yes or no before you turn the page


There is no right or wrong

There are no answers in the back

There are no trick questions

Leave your phones at the door

Bring your dreams nothing more

When the bell rings just put your pencils down

You’ve got twenty years to life


Its just our way of finding out


All of the above is the wrong answer




Derek Earl Houghton


 
 
 

So enormous is this longing

and so far from any shore!

The tools of navigation too often fall short.

Only the stars might offer guidance

Let us pray a life is not plagued with

cloudy skies so that it is forever lost at sea


Derek Earl Houghton

 
 
 
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