I Should Have Known Better
...I have my second graders coloring cutting and gluing.
It is taking them quite a bit of time. They are chatting too.
This is counseling class, I encourage socializing.
I arrived five minutes early ...
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Categories:
hotfooted, school, teacher,
Form: Narrative
Play No More
...The skies were darkening,
The sun had set,
The game was on,
And I had lost the bet!
I hated this game,
I never wanted to be IT,
How had this happened,
I knew I had to flit.
SPUD was the g...
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Categories:
hotfooted, childhood, games,
Form: Light Verse
The Spirit of Christmas
...John and Bath, short for Bathsheba Adams, were quite a pair. Nothing ever got them down, except maybe an occasional cold. Even then she would take hers out into the cold winter day of the back park...
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Categories:
hotfooted, happiness, life, love, day,
Form: Prose Poetry
Park Street, Kolkata
...Syrupy with recipe ran along brasseries
Peiping, Mags and Oasis pricey rotisseries
Sizzling sizzlers the Peter Cat’s clamor
Addled couples fending their pockets out of scarce.
Boogie with de...
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Categories:
hotfooted, people, places, school, urban,
Form: Blank verse