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Autobiography of John Sidney McCain III, Sometime Senator of Arizona

...1. To Fly
My father was an admiral, and so
I joined the Navy. Back in fifty-eight
to be a pilot seemed the way to go:
ship-sailors were committed to a crate.
Scrub decks? Paint rusting gunwales?...

The Way I See My Country Right Now

...I see my country is in terror
To much political makes our leaders fearsome
Foreseen the future is black
They plan to make a worst exit
For almost three years in office
No big projects has not di...

Whole Lotta Love

...I was a late arrival
born in nineteen fifty-eight,
during the folk revival.
As a kid, music was survival.
Records then sounded great
on a platter or a plate,
like Peter, Paul, and Mary,
and Pu...

Gable

...When he left us, he left us too soon.
He starred in 13 episodes of "Tycoon".
It was a day that all of his fans were sure to hate.
Christopher left us at the young age of fifty-eight.
He starred i...

In the labyrinth of time, where truth and lies dance

...In the labyrinth of time, where truth and lies dance,
I wander among the shadows of thoughts, seeking wisdom's light,
Wondering why, in recent centuries, the learned have lost their way in the mist...

After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race

...After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race...

Planet earth (the Mother of all)
breathed a collective
and palpable sigh of relief,
and I too deeply exhaled,
...

Nadir

...
The worst nadir in my young years
that brings me still to shed sad tears;
while I was pregnant- months to wait-
September, nineteen fifty-eight.

My new friend's child was six week...

Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation

...Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation

Outward slovenly appearance bespeaks volumes
wordsworth their weight in gold
(exhumed from the pith
of these lovely bones -
beclothed wi...

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Miracle Man 
1/23/2024

Some days I just wake up feeling of low self esteem,
I survey the night’s happenings and almost scream.

Other days I feel “dumber than a bar...

Fluttermill Park

...If you enter through 
The rusty back gate
Messily labeled 105 and
Walk thirty steps to your right,
You will come across
A beaten path
Overgrown with forgotten weeds
And the remnant leaves of a...

Kismet

...A summer day in 'fifty eight
when providence found me a mate

Neither of us knew ,what was then to be
from passion, love was brought forth to me

Attraction's magnet drew us together
nothing w...

Twice a Day

...The clock hangs on the wall, dead
And unmoving. 
Its hands grasp silently at its black borders, 
Pulling uselessly at peeling black letters.
Analog?
Maybe, but it doesn’t matter.
The numbers bl...

A Valentine Couplet

...That summer day in 'fifty eight
when providence found me a mate

Neither of us knew ,what was then to be
passion& love,was brought forth from me

Attraction's magnet drew us together
nothing, ...

A Bit of a Do At the Zoo

...There’s a panda tap dancing in hobnails
There’s an octopus mixing up cocktails
A bush kangaroo
Blows on a kazoo
While the band are all tadpoles or pond-snails

A gorilla is dancing the tango
W...

Top Ten Percent

...Plastic for garment hopeful Mc Guyver
        Privileged upbringing Mum funded Uni
        Drooping arms self described Survivor 
        Sends selfies working store security 

       
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