Best Free Lunch Poems

A scientist pursuing research—
with disinterested curiosity,
Poets distancing themselves—
from personal emotions,
from ‘personality’ (in Eliot’s idiolect),
A sportsperson focusing on the event—
not obsessed with results,
demonstrating sporting spirit,
Anyone doing...

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FREE LUNCH

Poet, they name me, and then ask for a verse:
Especial for someone they hold in their hearts;
Rarely considering my oft empty purse -
Really a...

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There’s no such thing as a free lunch

Waiter, hurry up with that brunch!

And tell my nursemaid to wax my toupee

Oh, barber be careful when you...

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The cabin was stood there, its door was ajar
The owners were out but they couldn’t be far
She was so thirsty she needed a drink
Did she...

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Grant me freedom, freedom to be what I choose
Do what does not injure the lives of others
Have what I create or exchange not plunder
Not free...

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Everything in life has a price
Someone must always pay 
Life begins and ends with a price
If someone doesn't, you must somehow pay
If you don't, who...

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Now here's a definition of MACHO 
I've never ever heard before
“Male Acting Childish, Hormonal, and Obnoxious”
When I read it, I started thinking of more

There's the...

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What I had planned for the day is no longer an option for me.
20 minutes on a full body vibration machine
30 minutes in a sauna....

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Pandemic pessimism 

There is no such thing as society.
Forgo forgiving, forget free lunch,
Just plates of debt and toxic punch.
First come first served, no us, just...

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Defined By Idioms

Naked truth, bent nails
dead men tell no tales
bad Apple, broken mirrors
burnt out light bulbs, crocodile tears
spilt milk, goose chase
two cents worth, rat race
rotten...

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We, my wife and I, were living 
With our son in an Indian Metropolis.
It was sometime before 
I took up my assignment in Africa. 

I...

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Only time will tell the outcome of this rhyme,
Whether it will succeed in the nick of time.
So better safe than sorry, as they say,
A good...

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the talking heads are also comics
these economic geniuses after years
are spouting praises of Misernomics
quick study concluded we're in arrears

and need to decapitalize life today
don't spend...

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it's a beautiful day
and i'm passing through this cursed place:
they are celebrating free lunch at crack land today!
on the dirty and horrible street,
zombies walk around...

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Universe where art thou, if not everywhere 
Inside, outside, in between, and over there 
Contracting, expanding, blackness upon bright 
Traveling at light speed, in stillness...

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