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Anything Goes

Perhaps he's crackers
to embrace glitz
(to paraphrase Irving Berlin)
'Putin on the Ritz'
tho'
'Sometimes something is better than nothing'
went the writing on the wall
yet
'Too much of nothing'
(wrote the Zimmerman)
is really no good at all
and
'Everything comes to those who wait'
an optimist put in prose
but
Cole Porter said it best
when he wrote, 'Anything Goes'

anything goes

anything goes
when
you're
going

no
where

no
w
h
e
r
e

(a?n?y?t?h?i?n?g?g?o?e?s?)

Anything Goes

Don got the boot 
    for wearing a suit

  Recruiters said, 'Anything goes'
    so Don pierced his nose

  Now he's a hot commodity
    instead of an oddity

Anything Goes -- 2020 Election Version

(Updated in such form that Cole Porter would sue)
 
[Intro]

Times have changed
And we've often rewound the clock
Since Nixon got the shock 
When he crashed on Daley’s bloc
If today
Any shock they should try to stem
'Stead of crashing on Daley’s bloc
Daley’s bloc would crash on them
 
[Verse 1]

In olden days the missing ballots
Would wind up on warehouse

Anything Goes, Post It

A  Anything Goes
N  Nurture
Y  your rational
T  thoughts.  
H  Harvest
I   inspired,
N  noteworthy
G  genius.

G  Give equal
O  opportunity an
E  enlightened
S  springboard.

P   Posting poetry
O  offers a
S   superior
T   testing ground for

I  insightful
T thinking.

March 16, 2021

Anything Goes

A night’s rest is never enough for the city always calls
A new day is like a page flip from the time a night falls
A breakfast can be leftover supper to empty bowls
Or a smile for sparing the lives of crowing fowls

I duck human traffic as I rush for my day’s grind
It is just like a

Anything Goes

In this age of “anything goes”
Decency is not a priority as we know
Preferred the old rules
Call me an old fool
Twas a different era things were slower

Anything Goes

Fierce was their hatred for Reagan
   Now for Mr. Trump all the more
At his State of the Union Speech
   The Dems aimed to even the score

Trump's backers still cheering
   his "Best is Yet to Come" close
Ms. Pelosi ripped up all his notes
   then struck a defiant pose...

'Midst

Anything Goes: Life In a Loop

What has life in store?
Milk on bed and milk when dead.
Why sulk all along?




P.S.This poem is based on the Hindu customs of burial. Attending a funeral recently taught me this very essence of Life.

Anything Goes On a Sunday

As I claim my own parcel of solitude
from yesterday's banging boom,
I see heaven expanding through you
in me: fireflies  glow  rare as Sunday’s bliss,
never mind if there is a call for patience
when holy hours rise upon the lines of your mouth;
resting on the ledge of a private oasis.
This I cannot enter... the night curfew

Anything Goes

Anything Goes
______________________
Enfold me like the breath of spring,
when beauties blooming new
kiss my petals ever gently
like the fallen dew.

Take me into the shade,
where there's a cooling breeze
arch me like a tree trunk
in the summer heat.

Nourish me with every sence,
and all you worldly pleasure
feather me with tender care
so we may love together.

5/24/14-Jessica Thompson

Anything Goes

She throws hateful words at me
And I echo more hate right back
After twenty years of matrimony
We have perfected our lame attacks
Familiarity, contempt does breed
As the long-time married surely knows
But in love, just like where soldiers bleed,
All is fair and anything goes

She knows all my insecurities
And knows just where it hurts
Our love is stained with impurities
As

Anything Goes, But

No one willfully wants to assist the blight
Only we seem to be, yet clearly in the right
They are and must come screaming bloody
Hell, what don't they understand? Something
In the dark cries out, nothing comes from nothing
No way no how, but endlessly they attack us,
Grueling begrudging and badgering, they rack us

So high and pull apart at

Anything Goes

There was a tolerant man
Tolerance was his plan-
He, to decide which is & is not,
Judging tolerance was his lot-
Methinks..he often loses the plot

Motivation - Anything Goes But Money

To a manager its clever
To knowledgeable employees its torture
To smart employees its exploitation
To the rest it feels like slavery
What separates a motivator from a con artist
What separates a motivator from an abuser
Cant prove it.
Does that make it legal
Does that make it fair
They don’t care
Pay me what I’m worth
I’ve got nowhere since birth
They keep me poor
As

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