Best Tsk Poems

Homicide and genocide
Need punishments to be applied
And fratricide and suicide
Are awful – that can’t be denied.

But something else I can’t abide,
Although, in this case, no one died,
Cannot be what we take in stride – 
A crime that’s known as verbicide.

Unlike insect- or herbicide,
Its perpetrators tend...

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We all swore ‘Never Again’
  to let a maniac terrorize millions
Never Again, Never Again
  so swore pundits and wise men  

A new Hitler's in front of us now
  What’s our reaction? 
‘Tsk, Tsk,’ Vladimir, you butcher’
  ~ as we stew...

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Mary Lou Sims was young and enterprising, like stars routing dark;
Or mauve dawn on the verge of discovery, awaiting time's remarks.

Mary Lou's best friend was Cora Mann, ever since sweet childhood;
When they'd sat in zesty school together, in the town of 'Wildwood.'

They dreamed of opening...

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