School Health Poems

I’m in the residential dining hall with my suitemates Lisa and Sunny. We’re talking about sausages.

Why? Because April 30th is ‘National Sausage day.”
Someone mentioned that...

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Covid-icus gathered his legions, 
They were always ready to fight.
Spreading to all regions
Showing off all their might

Covid-icus was really relentless
His troops attacked all around
Spreading, his...

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I remember when I held my children for the first time

I remember when I spoke at my dad’s funeral ad libbing in a mix of...

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When I entered the City Senior Center
with my Open Mic proposal
to increase resilience
and decrease apartheid dissonance

I could hear no music,
see no dancing.

The quilting room
and the...

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Ace colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl Kovalovich

revisited January 23rd, 2024
on the evening before yours truly
(the one and only Matthew Scott Harris),
a stand up comic wannabe, who
historically...

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Aunt Mary was a small and wiry mother
of six;
four by birth
and two by informal adoption.

She sang in a small querulous voice
yet spoke boldly
filled with loving...

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When I was six
I didn’t know what the word suicide meant 
I don’t even remember hearing it
I played with dolls and swinged in the park
I...

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I’m known as the happy girl in school!
I’ve always been called;
“The girl who smiles and talks to everyone!”
It’s nice, it really is.
Lifting everyone’s day with...

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Let me hear that applause though I've done little to warrant it
Time is a poor curative for what's fundamentally broken
Brain's full pal, sorry, you've gotta...

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Words
Like I’ve never felt the worst
Like I’ve never felt it hurt
You don’t know me now do you?

Ghosts 
Haunting brand new unused minds
Feeding on a soul...

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My muscles know not my ultimate intent
“Around the block or just to that sign
Please share with us what’s on your mind

We hope this sprint is...

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The words in my title, on my page. Meixd.
Twisting around like a tornado.
Cannot read a single letter.
Words jumbled up. Askew
My paper tangled and coiled.
Not and...

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Knowledge might at least try
to include the humility of Wisdom
as leftbrain dominant thoughts
co-arise rightbrain subversive feelings

We have not truly hoped 
and actively prayed for wisdom
in...

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Breaking news 
the land of the free is now broken 
Our Divided States of America
is turning third-world 
Who let the government 
place their destructive hands...

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Date 2008 these are Damian's 
Formative days. Damian Hakim 
Was born 2001 August 10th.
8lbs 7oz. Big baby boy! Damian 
Lived in west Virginia with his
Mother...

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