Anais Vionet Poet Free verse

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There’s a homeless man who lives in a tree in back of a bar here in New Haven, CT. I think he drinks Brut aftershave (there are empty bottles). I gave him my sunglasses and a dollar and he asked for a photo.
I was going to hand him a $20 but Lisa, who's from Manhattan, pulled me aside and told me that “the most dangerous time for a homeless person is the couple of days around when they get their monthly checks, because many drink (or drug) themselves to death that week. So small $1 donations are safer.” City girls know these things.

bootlicking idolatry

bootlicking idolatry

He’s a peculiar star
he comes from TV
ambition is his sphere
and his every line is a trick

all know him a notorious liar
whose business is schadenfreude
but many curry his sweet favour
for he has the cowards furry
and an actors need to be flatter'd

He has no quality worthy of entertainment
but we must see him every hour
for he is an hourly promise-breaker
for rashness, superfluous folly and thievery
the world has noted, he has no historical equal

In moral retreat, he outruns any jockey
the treasures of his idolatrous worshipers
he straightway began to strip away, by tariff
too late their despair they will proclaim
but the misery will be well earned
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Fool by bôa
TROUBLE (feat. Nikki Williams) by Parov Stelar
Who Let the Scat out of the Bag by Tape Five
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Webster: Schadenfreude = enjoyment at the troubles of others.
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Keith D Trestrail March 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM Lol!

Chris Conn March 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM Asif. Chris Conn March 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM Don't matter who is president. Inflation is part of the economic cycle. The ruling class is the problem. As for your photoshopped art, I was guessing the destitute tree dwellers name could be Asif, like when Cher is heading into school and that loser snuggles up beside her. Anais Vionet March 5, 2025 at 6:28 AM Here you have a president that (1) is creating his own unemployment, (2) his own guaranteed inflation (Canada, Mexico, China don't pay tariffs - YOU do) what if everything at WalMart costs 10% more - (3) is bowing to Russia and pissing off our every ally and (4) wants to trash social security and medicare. Yeah, Asif. The US will be the new Venezuela.