Best Tehran Poems

...Of all the things that I have lost
Perhaps what hurts the most
Is that I can no longer go
to where I once called home...

I cannot roam with childish glee
Down through the leafy grove
Nor play......

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...They spied me in the sky, dropping bombs of love
on Ferguson, and bitchy women's  rooms; and rednecks' 
shooting range was next, the blooded boxing glove.

They spotted me in Tel-aviv and also in......

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...Iran is playing with fire

    If Israel gets hot ~

  Tehran will burn in her fryer......

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...This is the best beer I've ever had. 
Yes, The best beer I've ever had. 
No beer is really bad, but 
This is the best beer I’ve ever had. 
 
Beer’s invention was accidental I’m told. 
Something about......

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...En-trumped

There are many en-tities. Narrative psychologist speak of living and telling 
a story. Our lives should be as we en-live them and en-story them. We tell 
our tale as we see it, at the......

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...Greetings, ladies and gentlemen of the Associated Press.
As you know, our modern world is a chaotic hostile mess,
And we are being overwhelmed by garbage and pollution. 
Hyper-Magnetic Technologie......

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...I.
Carter Gray was a retired marine,
who’d done two tours in Afghanistan,
discharged at thirty, he moved to Utah
to raise cattle on a big spread of land.

He’d worked dawn to dusk every day
fo......

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...(A Piece in Triplet Addressed to Dr Monir Táhá)*

Yes, we’re mountains, all together yet alone,
From foot to crown of rock and with hearts of stone.
Unmoved by all, moving none, we’re on our own.......

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...
Day one, and there has been ominous activity
here in Tehran at the American Embassy.
Scores of fanatics have been stirred into a frenzy
by the religious leader known as Ayatollah Khomeini.
W......

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...come back and light up love's shrine
in this lonesome, heart of mine
come back,get me back eyes' sight
take me out of,the realm of night
come back , make me feel inspired
fulfill what,we've alwa......

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...For Neda Aghasoltan … 


and you are cut from the throat
somewhere between horror and word
someone laments from faraway times
from somewhere between poetry and dreams

I hold my hands up
I t......

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...Sin plagues the land!
Where men cry out from false pulpits
That we can get :back to the Garden"
And mongrelize ourselves into
Some kind of World Man,
Sin plagues the land.

Where honest, decen......

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...everything the world does wrong
will have some connection to Iran---
as the media does the bidding of
mr. hope & change n’ his cronies,
everything the world does wrong
will somehow come back to Iran-......

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...Lots of wheat sweet wheat 
in rows lined with chai paste 
purple mustard and almond milk 
baskets of goat cheeses goat meats 
are hung bussells of dry peppermint
lemon grass fine barley seeds 
......

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...mr. mccain (remember him?  yes, he’s still alive & still a sold-out withering shell of a man)
steps up to the pulpit &
belts out into the mic that will be broadcasted round the world,
saying that lib......

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