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This is my last post on behalf of The Center For New Americans. You contributed nearly $1000. Thanks so much! Keep in touch! Ten Thousand Hours Ten thousand hours you get good No matter what you do I tried it out to see if it could Get over you My technique little bit weak my...
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Too many dogs too many ukuleles Too many jog make me feel lazy Too many “Awwww!” Facebook baby Too many dogs too many ukuleles Too many canines, too many chords Too many great times I can’t afford Too much Brooklyn too many beards Too many good lookin’ not enough weird You might say there are...
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So much in my life to be grateful for. High on that list would be Olivia, my daughter. I wrote this while reflecting on the day she was born. Your Name Click Here for Slideshow/song Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough...
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Thomas A. Turkey 2019-2019 We grieve Tom Turkey, my what a shame Richly deserving of much wider acclaim We say goodbye, with a prayer sacred, stately: “No, it’s not dry, I just really like gravy!” He knew from the start like Papa and Mama He’d play his part in the white and dark drama And...
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I came to Cincinnati when I was ten with my sister and my daddy and my mama’s best friend We’d left Lafayette on a midnight moon Mama was a waitress, worked till noon. I silently died in the back of the car Sister cried quietly in my arms We hid under covers ‘neath a midnight...
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I Was a Pilgrim Oft I’ve wondered out under the sky (OK, “oft” is a number not that high Too much pollution no planetarium close And too much abuse of my ambien dose) But here’s what I’d wonder if I stayed up late: Is it nature or nurture that parlays our fate? Physics might surely...
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THE LONELY HAT It was seven in the morning, seven below I was livin’ in a little town in Ohio I was walkin’ my dog, his name was Joe When we saw a curiosity in the snow It was a lonely hat, blue and black Dirty but furry with floppy earflaps I picked it up,...
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Peter Fonda 1940-2019 Peter Fonda’s first movie was breezy with sweet Sandra DeeThen for a ride to The Big Easy you can’t beat LSDHe finally stepped from the shadows of that family tree“We can only learn when we are free.” Fonda was once shot in the stomach, “a mishap” he saidBy his own hand he’d...
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Voted most likely To fall just short of his goal at Haiku High Still he showed promise Harvard Haiku took a chance It got worse Studied in Japan Zen Monastery Master still worse The harder he tried The more it all receded Still He would not give up Wanting more becoming less Psychotherapy Mother...
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The Poetry Police The Poetry Police paid a visit last night Drop the pen and nobody gets hurt! They only come when I put out the light There’s no need for handcuffs! They’re too tight! They said they’d received an alert The Poetry Police paid a visit last night One thing is clear: they’re not...