Category: corporate America
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a modest proposal
This morning I saw flocks of crows hanging out on equipment abandoned in a swamp and then I thought maybe they missed the flight for their yearly winter Caribbean vacation It was cold and rainy and then I thought wouldn’t it be nice if the folks who do genetic engineering bred GMO black crows with…
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Iowa
When crows fly off to winter in Mexico the woods grows dumb with grackles in trees Flocks of pundits that do not give good omens or laugh at the straw men caucusing in the fields Buzzards take their place along the fence watch squirrels play in traffic hoping for a meal 2-4-20
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in the kingdom of the mad
In the Kingdom of the Mad fashionistas wear fur coats made from rabbits sold as Easter bunnies to little kids last spring but claim they are made of lemming fur torn off bloated bodies pulled from an arctic surf meat and bones rendered into pet food sold at Petco In the Kingdom of the Mad…
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Insomnia
In the middle of the night it is worse – everything is quiet you feel rain on the roof smell dry leaves rustle in trees hear musty spores propagate in the yard outside your door You sit on the edge of your bed trying to calm the swirling feels that keep you awake at night…
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water’s edge
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”He builds his water-world And lives in splintered Trees with bark unfurled.” from the poem, ‘Castor Canadensis’ from the chapbook, ‘Earth Gospel’ 2019 by Tamara Miles ======================================== Let’s you and I walk a water’s edge and talk of gnawed tree trunks pointing at the sky of tree corpses pulled through nettles and vines of water…
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