The Capacity to Laugh
...DNA spawns life and, too, the capacity to laugh,
which is a good thing, later, when those lives are torn in half.
Those three letters guide us down a long, rocky road,
through our behavior which...
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Categories:
deoxyribonucleic, humor, life,
Form: Rhyme
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
...Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine
("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered
after assassinating Julius Caesar.
Alte...
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Categories:
deoxyribonucleic, 10th grade, adventure, allah,
Form: Free verse
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky
...Harriet Harris née Kuritsky...
Despite being a nineteen year old bride
she wed Boyce Brandon Harris
half a decade her senior,
(where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes)
during the mont...
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Categories:
deoxyribonucleic, america, anniversary, celebration, death,
Form: Rhyme
I a youthsome wholesome jokesome handsome
...I (a youthsome, wholesome, jokesome, handsome,...
gamesome, chucklesome, bothersome,
and awesome modest fellow)...
does not deliberately court immortalization,
and wonders what criteria confer el...
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Categories:
deoxyribonucleic, age, appreciation, birth, creation,
Form: Free verse
Mine Gerund Farming, Tilling, and Harvesting Illogical Weltanschauung
...Mine gerund farming, tilling, and harvesting illogical weltanschauung
Twas accursed destiny
since birth (maybe coded in
deoxyribonucleic acid
since time immemorial) alas and alack
nascent em...
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Categories:
deoxyribonucleic, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Cybersurfing Netizen Flounders
...Cybersurfing netizen flounders...
analogous to a fish out of water
Ever since being a little gull hubble buoy,
I bobbed (while donning square pants)
like spongy flotsam and jetsam at sea.
No...
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Categories:
deoxyribonucleic, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal Moment
...Impossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes...
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Categories:
deoxyribonucleic, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
Choices of Past Forebears
...Random chain of events
preceded occurrence re:
guarding existence of me
interminable fits and starts
concerning self destruction
inherent within one measly
self important species.
Yours trul...
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Categories:
deoxyribonucleic, adventure, atheist, bullying, creation,
Form: Free verse
Existential Crisis Still Encompasses Mein Kampf Valentine's Day 2022
...Existential crisis still encompasses mein kampf Valentine's day 2022
The following lines written disjointed fashion
attempting to mimic strategically
moving pieces erratically on chessboard
id...
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Categories:
deoxyribonucleic, angst, endurance, february, how
Form: Free verse
Paternal Grandmothers Headstone Beth David Elmont Long Island
...Paternal grandmother's headstone - Beth David, Elmont, Long Island
Shaindel (Sadie), variant of Shana Harris
died May 13th, 1959 exquisitely chiseled
alphanumeric characters legibly engraved
se...
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Categories:
deoxyribonucleic, absence, america, death, fate,
Form: Free verse
Ruminating Vagaries of Life May 2nd 2021
...Ruminating vagaries of life May 2nd, 2021
(conceived while in utero
which loosely summarization in toto
of this ordinary Joe Schmoe,
who did wade nine months for a roe
at mercy of obstetrician...
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Categories:
deoxyribonucleic, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Coronavirus Microbe Covid19 Begat
...Coronavirus microbe (COVID-19) begat...
heebie jeebies couple months before March 15th, 2020
More'n three hundred and sixty six days ago,
a pandemic did devastatingly blow
across the webbed wid...
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Categories:
deoxyribonucleic, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal Moment
...(alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck)
Ever since the advent of civilization
contrivances crafted to measure
days, weeks, months...
analytical “gifted” anonymous minds
wrought ever more...
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Categories:
deoxyribonucleic, angst, art, earth, extended
Form: Free verse
Coronavirus Microbe Covid 19
...Coronavirus microbe (COVID-19)
(alternately titled: yours truly doth mutter
asthma bowled dug gutter
pin yon hated chap strikingly and gently weeps,
whereby melts milquetoast like butter.)
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Categories:
deoxyribonucleic, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Asleep Courtesy Deep Relaxation Music
...Elongated dazzling radiance cast abeam
sensational blinding brilliance
thru eyelids cast agleam
buoyed upon soundcloud airstream
entire corporeal complex edifice
rocked upon gently
shimmering...
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Categories:
deoxyribonucleic, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
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