Showing Mercy
...She was flexible, accepting a variety of lifestyles and ways of living
This helped her find her spot in the world among interesting varieties
She was ostracized and belittled by some absolutists
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Categories:
absolutists, life,
Form: Free verse
I Am a Listener and a Jumper
...Leftie I was and leftie I be.
I never watch stupidity on reality TV
Except Married at First Sight
Which gives me delight
I am a hippie, a gypsy, a faerie, I flee….
From those who have absolute i...
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Categories:
absolutists, me,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sexy Alien Woman
...She is a knock out! The space cowboys were whispering.
I turned and looked. In her earth costume they were not wrong.
I am the alien’s doctor, so I know how they look naturally.
They have four eye...
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Categories:
absolutists, science fiction,
Form: Prose Poetry
Gender Roles
...I grew up in the fifties and sixties.
Gender roles were almost absolute
Back in small town Iowa.
Daddies worked. Mommies didn’t.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Dad’s escaped from the drudgery of housewor...
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Categories:
absolutists, memory,
Form: Free verse
My Mind Is a Whirl
...Don't. Can't. Won't. Listen. Listen.
My mind is awhirl. Too much of that stuff.
Life is redundant. My friends are boring.
My parents are fussy. Absolutists.
No room for me. I try to get in my tru...
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Categories:
absolutists, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Nothing Like An Absolutist
...I cannot be her friend because she has pink yarn in her hair.
Who says?
My mother.
Can you at least be her friend at school?
No.
Let me guess.
You have an Absolute Book at your house….
Yes...
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Categories:
absolutists, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
In My Alphatown
...In our wildly indigenous
western town
we have a notorious Ancient GoodWitch.
Like GrandMother Moon,
she seems to emerge with a new, yet old,
community healing process
about once a FullMoon mont...
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Categories:
absolutists, caregiving, culture, games, health,
Form: Political Verse