Long Babysit Poems

Date:   September   2050

Warm end of summer night. Slight
Breeze a tease manageable season.
Pleasing and within reason. 
Molly  Dolly and Holly tended to
Their 4 months old infants with
 mother Daughtry.
While Damian, was...

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Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of...

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*** Classified Ad — “Position Wanted” ***

  ((The following is from ad details written on the ad draft form submitted by the ad’s purchaser, who, while here was briefly helped by clerk ES Slinger,...

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there were his baseball cards
collected in a shoebox,
his model submarines, and planes.
he paced in a restless waddle
from corner to corner in our bedroom.
he could beat me at any game
and always wanted to prove it.
the five...

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Learning disabled, hopelessly unemployed
Troy can't write the address for his next interview.
Warehouse stock, 331 Tiffany Street, in the Bronx.
His girlfriend, Trinity, also unemployed,
with one child by Troy. She's more resourceful
but doesn't realize it. For one...

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I babysit the daughter (Ivy) of a doctor at the hospital where I volunteer, accumulating ‘clinical hours’ for my med school applications. According to my mom, the purpose of my current existence is to get...

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It was her birthday she was turning thirteen.

It was a fun day until her father asked to baby sit for his new friends so they could all go 
out  to party.

She was scared that...

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I know there's something you wanna say
'Cause you ain't the same as yesterday's yesterday
You're far more distant from me then you used to be
Something's wrong - stopping you from being free
You're choking on whatever it...

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we should be realising the fates
and who is belonging in what safe place
those who build bombs around the world that should be locked up
and those who guide us to kill one another
and blindly spin in...

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I have to deal with Noah when I wake up.
When I sleep.
In the middle of the day.
Where's my rest?
I have to deal with him when I'm with Roland.
When I'm with mom.
When I'm with Grandpa.
When do...

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(conclusion to previous "poem" here)

One afternoon, our home phone rang and I began, as usual,
a heartfelt chat with Sheila. My memory is dim.
What we talked of I can’t quite recall. I only know one thing:
I...

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I remember*

I remember someone calling my name…
I remember someone whispering in my ears…
I remember someone calling my name,
Calling my name, when I was so in deep tears…
And found out that he was our father…
I was...

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Winnipeg
Every day you drive down my street, through my neighborhood, anticipating the day we'll infinitely meet
I tried to ignore the feelings I've felt since the moment I walked into your convenient store but it ever...

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July  2051

Hi Diary!
Okay diary! Today was the day I got
Thee JOB diary! It's with a new company 
Stellar Star Corp. I start  in 3 more
Days. I had a second interview with 
Bosses. And...

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Another college tour, another favor. This time it was an old schoolmate, George and his parents who were taking the official tour. I was going to babysit his little sister Mary (5) while they walked...

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"American Grafitti" took me back again to High School in the 1960's
"Back to the Future's" nifty hot rod took me back in time and almost left me!

"City Slickers" took me way out west, to rustle...

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I remember how I loved babysitting our grandchildren 
how neatly they fit into my arms.
I remember being impressed with their intelligence and captivated by their charms.

How they would spend the night with us…how we’d make...

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Our four grandchildren have grown up before our eyes…it’s hard to imagine that!
Which means it’s been years since they spent the night with us and Deborah and I babysat.

So, when our son and daughter-in-law asked...

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Life is taken for granted every single day,
Letting your gift from God just waste away.
People getting addicted to drugs,
Being so evil showing no love.
Sitting around with no goals or ambitions,
Doing nothing but just wishing.
You only...

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When we think of adoption,
We seldom see it  through the eyes of a child,
Too often blinded by our own egos,
Too often carried away on cloud nine,
Expectations galore,
Plans already in place,
On what will happen at...

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I had a separate social life where stoners didn’t exist 
it was when I came alive so many ladies kissed 
happy days fulfilling life that all the stoners missed
people come and go with time but...

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When I was a little girl close to the sea
In the darkness shone sparkling sapphire lights
In my closet filled with fierce stuffed animals
On my bed one on each side perfect protectors
For there were two half-brothers...

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They look for a little bit, and then they get tired of looking and they give up.
They go back to their parents’ houses, lamenting that there are no jobs. 
No one wants to hire them....

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trademark green on white 
"Welcome to Colorful Colorado" 
me and the Sangre De Cristos
march across the border 
and Mt Blanca rises to greet us
smooth and elegant 
as a wedding cake
draped with fondant
majestic and proud
above ...

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In our hands, what have, we have, that governments cannot take.
In our hands, what can, we make, that no-one can steal or break.

In our hands, we have, what others may not. 
In our hands, is...

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