Category: War & Politics
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The rhyme of war
Would we remember Liberty Bell, if it were not cracked If they had melted it down Made it whole, again? Would we remember Before someone blew a whistle And kept score That everyone was undefeated Would we remember Yankee Doodle, if he rode a horse And not a pony and it did not rhyme With…
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Dream #1,457 or Three Years, Eleven Months and Twenty-Seven Days
I dreamed he came running into my room Begging me to hide him; terrified, sweaty, breathing Hard as the girl running from an ugly death in the cemetery Of a horror movie. I said, relax your having a nightmare. It is probably All those late night burgers you eat; put down your phone and stop…
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happy/sad
I remember the morning breakfast at my parents’ table Dad in his chair by the window Mom making coffee, frying eggs, bustling, always bustling. He said, I wanted to tell you first; in that split second, I thought the worst, cancer or some other kind of slow dying. I left the Republican Party; they’ve lost…
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21st century nude
crystallized carbonate mountain marble goddess inside is being quarried _____ her shape wrapped hidden in garments heavy as stone _____ this time strong rough female hands sculpt their vision 11-13-20
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Reason #1 to Avoid Election News
Do you remember waiting for Christmas. Did you think it would never come. Every mention of the holiday, it felt further and further away. Does the man on death row see time speed up? His demise chasing him. An anxious majority opinion wants to know. 11-7-20
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We the people
Whether You Me Us Like It Or Not A Victory Is Not A Mandate And You Me Us Must Move Forward Together 11-6-20
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Thumbtacks
Election Day, trying to avoid the news trying to think of anything but this election On a friend’s page, I see a picture of a pinup girl, wonder what she was like when she wasn’t a fantasy I feel guilty for looking, but I look anyway, tell myself that the person she was that day…
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A One Sentence Poem Written on the Last Friday Before the First Tuesday of November 2020 and the Title Is Longer than the Poem’
If Tzar Nicholas Was His Own Rasputin, Would The Nobles Have Let Him Live? 10-30-20
