Business Chicago Poems

U can 2 was on the license plate of my 
store manager brown Benz where a dead man 
was found in the trunk Alston Isadore...

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Chicago's new mayor just proposed
    another plan to put a heavy load

  on us beleaguered taxpayers --
    We'd...

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Five business days and counting
   since the last mail delivery

Remember Chicago? - 'The City that Works?'
   An epidemic now rages, of...

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Jungle clamour
Banter twisted like vines
Lions with psyche scars
Monkeys as crackpot sleuths
Snakes in a labyrinth guise
Parrots preen an oily beauty
Giraffes creak in rumpled posture

Immersive labelling
My colleagues...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Garahikahm, diyosa ka ng kagandahan
Ngiti mo'y parang siwang ng kalangitan
Agam agam ko'y napapawi at lakas ay nababawi
Kapag kita'y nakikita puso ko'y kumakabog

Biyaya kong maituturing ang...

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The sun
sliding toward the west on a ruby strip,
the tired sky sighs
sunlight bouquets,
open dawns from dawn
they start to draw their shutters,
from the subway, a great...

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While we Wait. 

Late October it has been raining now it has stopped
the landscape is green the air mild and gentle
but there is no jubilation.
No...

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Poetry Reading in Oslo 
Never had the lack of talent exhibited itself in so many poets. 
I`m referring to a poetry fest in Oslo- years...

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A Refugee 
He had been given a lift by a Lithuanian truck driver
to a little town in inland Norway where the winter 
starts in September...

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If you procrastinate, it may be because you're afraid of fate. You have no faith, so you wait until its too late! You take for...

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A Chicago Cubs-Fan Prayer!
 In nomine patri et fili spiritu of Ron Santo
 Let us all give thanks for Ernie Banks
    ...

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Above the roller-coaster rain clouds, 
there's a moment when the wing tip of the plane 
cuts seamlessly into serene blue as it banks 
over Chicago....

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