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Hey Alex

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Hey Alex you were just a number
Used and abused into a slumber
All those tours hoping you would blunder 
Slicing your brain like a cucumber

No Gordon you don't know
I'm the stronger person w...

Smuggler's Boat

...Migrants on the move from violence
their only possession
breath-space on a smuggler’s boat
secured with back-bent harvests 
in pretzel-bent systems
weight of crates of strawberries 
hoisted on ...

Message From the Council of Five

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We come from realms beyond your sight,
A council bound by cosmic law,
To warn you now of endless night,
Should mankind fail to mend its flaw.

The stars have watched your rise and fall,
Your ...

Seasons-Footle Haibuns

...Autumn

Let us begin in the current season, Not the season of beginnings but of seasoning.

Leaves bold
Wise, old

Winter

Hither it comes, white or gray, falling, f...

Thanksgiving

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Twilight curls her lips shyly this foggy morning

Gone is the twinkling of her pearly white spring

Gone are the greedy songbirds herded away

Their perches now bare of whim and whimsy

Che...

Super Soupers

...Super Souper 9-16-24
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Super Souper

Super Soupers wrangle rhymes
 into verses quite sublime
Taming wild-eyed metaphors
 into iambic strophes gal...

Family

...From the day we’re born we’re in the club
Consuming yet eerily beautiful
A club that commands no fee
Where its expected for us to be dutiful
We appear the same in little ways
Yet are different i...

Trojanesque

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After nearly a year
Hamas released four October 7th hostages. 
Unfortunately, they're all deceased
tossed away, like ballast, from a sinking beast.

Will they be mentioned at the DNC
will the...

The Great Fauci

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They cheered the great Fauci
and knelt before his unction -
praised and defended the man
who funded Gain of Function

They bowed to the great Fauci
and anointed him so pious -
crowned hi...

Opinionated Correctness

...The majority see normality in their conformity of reality 
think the minority less ordinary living independently of society 
so the predominantly found commonality to follow the herd unquestionably...

A Bizarre Naked Dance

...In Ongata Rongai's club, a memory song weaves,
A tale of Newton Karish and daring thieves,
Late '90s, New Year's Eve, a lively show,
A sold-out crowd, in high spirits, they'd go.

Karish, unlike...

The Hypocritical Goat

...Not to be taken lightly, I burnt all my clothes 
Cut the tattoos off my back, tore pins from my nose 
Foraged for food particles, where wild beasts reposed
Lapped water vapour off thorns, when the...

Employing the Wind

...Employing the Wind

The red-tailed hawk sails across
the backdrop of the April blue sky
Employing the wind as he defies gravity
with the gesture of his tail and ease of his conscience
His great...

Demons and the Devil

...Short and sweet, Brandon
   I see you have your 'game on'
     'Don't demonize the rioters,' you say
     Well, why should we bother 
  When YOU, sir, are the DEVIL ~ all of Chicago pays 



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Geese, Goslings and the Bridge

...Geese, Goslings and the Bridge

Sometimes, when you least expect it, Mother Nature makes a u-turn and draws you into the ridiculous.  Such was the time recently as I was returning from a friend’s h...

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