Liturgy for the Damned of Progress
...My wounded heart drinks deep from the rotting gut of misery,
Humanity vomits its relics onto the oozing tiles of the real.
I see kids chewing syringes like candy canes,
Their innocence smashed, fa...
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Categories:
employable, america, change, christian, community,
Form: Rhyme
We Should Introduce These Two
...Shimmy was startled to see her son Will at noon.
I thought you started your new job today, she said.
I packed you a lunch.
I got so nervous, I left it there, he replied.
Can you make me a grill...
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Categories:
employable, parents,
Form: Prose
What, A, Year,
...WHAT. A. YEAR.
All my dreams
come true
I am the living proof
Dreams are
employable
I am the living proof
Dreams are camouflaged with
Mud; Hoax; Poison
sometimes…….media
I a...
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Categories:
employable, dream, earth, i am,
Form: Rhyme
Appreciating Things
...The Pandemic makes us appreciate things we had taken for granted
It helps us to realize how precious time with our family is
It has forced me to learn four new computer programs
And I have learne...
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Categories:
employable, appreciation,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sameach B'Chelko
...Sameach B'Chelko (??? ?????)
To Be Content with One's Lot,
Without, one Overreaches,
Sabotaging Can, with Cannot,
Learning as such is Egregious,
Succumbing to an Ego Plot,
Cleverly Whispering '...
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Categories:
employable, conflict, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
Did You Ever Notice
...Did you ever notice
our vampire legends
are almost always patriarchal,
sometimes even princely
and excruciatingly royalist,
elitist?
While witches plot and evil plan
in coven craven circles
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Categories:
employable, courage, green, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Parting Instructions For My Oldest
...You did not choose to be born,
much less Black Lives Really Should Equally Matter born
into this legacy,
your familial and civil Two-Connecticuts destiny.
I realize that,
And regret perhaps my...
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Categories:
employable, appreciation, caregiving, health, integrity,
Form: Prose Poetry