Paul Turner – Medium

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Love and liking

You love someone, but not like them much, and spend more time elsewhere. You can like your pals, but not feel the ache of love, and hold each other for fun. When you both like and love someone, there’s the bond that keeps — the strength and regard for the ages…

Loveandliking

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Loveandliking

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Feb 16

Am moving on

Have handed off Chick-fil-A rewards Am moving on Had a goosebump raise in the offing Am moving on Let gamification schemes molder Let the cowbells go missing May our surveyed souls settle Enough guff Zoom zombies, bye bye Am moving on.

Poetry

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Poetry

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Feb 3

Challenges in Selling Final Expense Policies

Following are some of the issues that call center agents are dealing with as they pitch Final Expense policies. I present these issues as quantifying questions. How many customers are seeing false TV commercials about paying less than a dollar a day for a policy face amount of $30,000? How…

Final Expense Insurance

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Challenges in Selling Final Expense Policies

Final Expense Insurance

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Jan 24

Respiratory antics

Respiratory antics A touch of COPD And daily smoking Isn’t an artichoke

Poetry

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Poetry

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Jan 22

Not a musical round among sales guys

I hear voices above 70 decibels, All around me: At stem, stern, and beam reach Reading the same script and ad-libbing: The grinding voice The stern one The aw-shucks guy A thistle salad Projected and caught Seizing my audio processing

Poetry

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Poetry

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Jan 20

Buy in, By Phone

In some possible world, You make yourself whole, Taking hold of skeins of destiny. With agency to activate your actions, You pick up the phone — ear-based hair cells numerous and intact — And your brain matter lacks plaque. In this life tho’ You are just a self, By the…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Jan 13

Muffled enthusiasm

Pink noise and industrial carpeting PLEASE The sales boys are loud and reverberating The sales girls here, not so. We are serving sound pollution — less so, quelling objections Queue operatic choruses offstage. Let absorbents deliver!

Poetry

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Poetry

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Dec 31, 2022

Happy New Year 2023

Let’s not rinse and repeat. Let many good things replace The random, rude, and crude. After all, we’re all new moon babies And survivors.

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Dec 31, 2022

Neglected in-country deltoids

You’re opening up the China airways to Vaccinated tourists from elsewhere Your citizens are under-vaxxed, And they will roam over here and there & you don’t care. There’s paranoia about bringing in vaccinations from Europa and North America. But your COVID rates are up, And your hospitalizations are up. Open…

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Dec 20, 2022

Referral from United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack

Referral from United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack Ex-President Donald J Trump has been referred to the U.S. Justice Department for criminal charges. Which side are you on, girls and boys — which side are you on?

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