Best Lansing Poems

BUT   ESPECIALLY   EAST   LANSING


Cell phone with a woodywoodpecker ringtone;
Russian style  of guitar-playing with strummed beats;
Regina-Saskatoon red-eye with “collapsible”...

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NOT  EAST  LANSING AGAIN ?



For your problem, this is the ideal spot for you

Money?  Gambling like Vegas? Chancing?

Health?  Surgery like in...

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internal rhyme

Lil knows skill without frill; she’s talented, sharp and agile.
Lady Lil moves in many grooves and improves with each try. 
When she sits, she...

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EAST LANSING STRIKES BACK


In winter the buildings drop large dangerous icicles  - 
Then you’re in the hospital next to the wart-lotion factory
And the retro...

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THIS IS HOW LIFE FEELS WHEN YOU GET TO BE MY AGE

I have a general philosophical  precept
Life is in general a bowl of cherries...

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I remember,
in the early 60s,
our thirty mile drive
from our historic family farm,
in all White rural Michigan,
not counting the Mexican migrant workers
which adults made a point...

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You may have noticed the Michigan Catholic farmer
claiming his First Amendment rights have been infringed
to speak his mind
about the degenerative nature of same-sex marriage
when the...

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PLACES   YOU’LL   NEVER   FIND   ME



At any rap concert for fun,
At home watching a Merv Griffin  re-run,
Singing...

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As the sun sets
A hot wind like this
Does not belong in downtown Lansing
But here it is
Speed-boating down the Grand River grinning and wearing Ray-Bans

My wife...

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Jupiter and Venus meld like two canaries
Kissing in late February
In a black gap
Between mountainous sparkling beach hotels

As if
The planets have privacy in their own city...

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REASONS TO THROW THINGS OUT OF THE WINDOW


Window-launch in summer is best, but whatever the season,
Winter, fall, or spring,   the main reason 
Is...

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Clutching
The end of my Zebco rod and reel
As the cast of tackle is flung
Like a small knot of costume jewelry
Skimming atop the caramel-colored Grand River
Dragonfly...

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I.

The Fish Crow is an outcast amongst the seagulls
Standing on the hot Miami sand
At the end
Of our rose-colored beach towel

Nodding and blabbing half-heartedly
Nuh-uh nuh-uh
To the...

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SPRING’S     PERFUMES


Oh,  to be in East Lansing
Now that spring is there !
And to see the view entrancing
And drink cool Miller...

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Screaming Guillotines

I.

I sit on the wide veranda of this house called America,
And I can see the Beast Boys coming our jungled way,
Coming like wild torrents...

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