Best Campuses Poems

I
The word, when said
Makes some go dead
The sound of dog (she)

II
Most beaches lead somewhere
Some beaches lead nowhere
Truth or dare (campuses
Have grassy, waterless beaches)

III
Dickinson: words begin...

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I first ran across this term
Sacred Ecology
while reading Gregory Bateson
sharing a phylogenic
and holonic 
creolization
of ecosystemic language
with others speaking of and with integrity
as more primal and...

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Life sucks
And guess what
It only gets worse
Years of hard work
And bosses you hate
No pension plan

Now Social security check is always late
No medicare 
Or decent housing
Nursing...

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Deadly chemicals
parked in the cargo hold
of an American military plane
Destination: the jungles of Vietnam
Guerillas in the mist ...
communism with an Asian face
is on the uptick
It's...

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Johnny got his gun that May day
sent by Nixon's cronies to betray unarmed souls
to Kent State with rifles, bayonets,
and thirteen students were gunned down on...

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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL NAME: Donkey Pox

ORIGIN: First detected in insane asylums and faculty lounges across America.           ...

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Get Your Voice Heard

A long time ago
Fifty plus years to be exact
We knew how to protest
It wasn’t on Facebook or Twitter
It wasn’t by just writing...

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So many people always scream
that word ‘diversity,’
as if it’s the only idea
that we should ever see.
Yet more and more the shouting
comes off as childish,
more and...

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Centuries be philosophy and many people say that life is merely 
What one makes of it ? Averting chance as circumstance; songbirds
Their most chirping this...

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For them:
	TGIF! It’s weekend;
	The ATM vomits its cods,
	Unwinding at the bars,
	The cinema’s got a blockbuster!
	Yes,…pizza… barbeque… red wine…chicken…
	…come on, keep the change girl, it’s weekend!

	Campuses...

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When I was 19 I saw a dream of Jesus healing two women with Leprosy and since then I’ve seen impossible things made possible,
I’ve seen...

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Ideals

Ideals 

High ideals?  
We all had them 
In the forties, in college, 
those long, all-night
heated arguments,  
sitting cross-legged 
on the floor,
debating how
to change...

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Me and Alex were walkin' on State Street one early Saturday morning
 in the bright sun reflecting off deep snow. I saw long-haired ghosts of...

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It might be difficult for those growing up in the 50s and 60s            ...

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What I have noticed here
and there
on campuses
in medical service centers
within hospitality sanctuaries
in sane asylums

Most of the language
in exterior marketing
and interior messaging cultures

Has gently moved from...

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