Food Hero Poems

The boxes on the counter contain open-wide beaks
Of newly hatched birds, each begging for the food he seeks.
These babies are orphans, whose parents died or...

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Doing what is good,
Dear suffer in working that,
Fair Saints daily food....

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...But Mains just shrugged, then said, “Let’s go.”
offered the wrists to his bandittos.
Two of them led the man away,
Diaz fumed more watching him go.

Denied the...

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Mother: Oh Raymond, Raymond, what's to become of you?  :(
Raymond: I'll stay pure & give my life; Our Lady says it's true.

Jesus: Father Maximilian...

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Happy as this beautiful bird of nature,
Which can easily find its food.
Cheery as the bird of paradise,
Which gives hope to the destitute.

Darling, spring comes once...

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Bartholomew Barton; his friends called him Barty
Eighteen years old but no birthday party
Slumped in the mud, a gunshot to the shoulder 
But unlike his comrades...

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A policy of shortchanging Workers, 
The whole submissive lot Plain Dockers. 
Satan couldn’t say they were not faithful,
Yet, of a circumstance damned hateful…
 
All about...

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Back when I was a youngish man
this was a tale I heard,
and thinking back upon in now,
just makes it seem absurd.
It was about a truck-driver
out...

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The Tricky Chirp

The nester bird comes to live, 
in a nest, they did not make. 
Yet... the bird, 
feels right at home 
and not alone...

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Thought Police

Be careful what you say, 
be careful who you say it to. 
It might be heard... 
by someone that does not like it!

They will...

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New Shoes

"Grandpa, my shoes are too small, 
or maybe my feet or too big?"

"You are going to be ten foot tall, 
if you don't stop...

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I hear them say,                                          ...

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Mixed Messages

One last ticket. 
One last seat on the train. 
Running fast, 
to make it, before there is 
no chance to escape, 
the fate of...

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Momofuku
what did you do
took a dried noodle
and made a caboodle

a country in famine
you took time to examine
and created fast food
to feed the whole brood...

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The Garden Man

My man is in the garden. 
He is planting and watering
the new seeds we just got. 
They are wonderful carrots, 
of different colors,...

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