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It sits out in your driveway
a glittering metallic sculpture.
It costs more than your house,
you love it more than your spouse.
You can hardly drive it, it’s too high,
you can barely park it, it’s so wide.
Like an exotic compulsion, you need it,
though you can barely afford to feed it.
There’s a cockpit with winking tech,
offering a printer, wi-fi and refrigeration.
It can pull a house off its foundation.
Is there a tendentious ecological statement,
in this prestigious resource you need for work
is the fact that it’s tax deductible just a perk?
With this polished and pampered machine,
you get the rewards of effective parenting,
as it literally reflects the care that it’s given.
It’s a spaceship ready for expedition,
what else in creation is as elysian,
as your gigantic pickup truck.
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songs for this:
Dreamin’ by G. Love and Special Sauce
Driving by Everything but the Girl
Little Deuce Coupe by Andrew Gold
"Referencing an old poetic imagism sort of poem I wrote some four years ago--almost to the day---wherein lies a paradox," ... by The Poet.
MIRROR, MIRROR
I was in a room,
there, I saw a mirror,
and then I saw him,
I told him to get out,
and he did,
and he took the mirror,
and I was no more.
--The End--
A paradigm is a pattern of conceptual theory.
The basic building block that a child will utilize to develop skills where in time, the repetitiveness of certainties is a pattern attributed to the child's development.
The recognition factor is termed focus.
The paradigm that I created, started four years ago while I was creating Mirror, Mirror unbeknownst to me until yesterday, the pattern or paradigm manifested itself to me, as a grown-up liken to a child still developing.
Extraneous words, helter-skelters, meaningless, i.e., when they are apart. Put them together, they become recognizable factors worthy of focus.
The pattern, a deductible product of a paradigm, now becomes a newly created paradox--that happens to be four years old.
Parts I & II set the stage. No solid lead, just hints. Part III, the performance of a lifetime, or at least four years worth. A message, that sat idle in a book, received via simple quantum knowledge of connecting the dots. Extraneous with extraneous, this and that, with that and this--and voila, a pattern, a paradigm, a paradox.
Part IV was the explanative of a possible, coup de grace/final act, or je ne sais quoi/difficult to explain. After all, it's been four years ago, nothing then, maybe nothing will. Part V puns to ponder--a breather for this Part VI.
Soon Part VII, not much unless some intervening factor develops. Quantum knowledge is like the Moon, best seen in parts, for its fullness is worthy to behold. Inspirational teachings, like Music Class, harmonically.
I have seen enough and have to speak out
These health insurance companies making money off people
Is so disturbing and beyond words.
People with less money cannot keep up with these premiums,
Deductibles and co-pays.
A friend of mine couldn’t even get stitches recently
Due to a high deductible due.
These companies have no conscience.
People are dying over these issues and losing their homes
I once saw a man in tears because of losing his home
Unable to keep up with the health costs for his wife’s health issues.
And look what is happening to our Veterans!
It goes on and on and costs keep going up and up.
I have started to take action, speaking out.
--- I hope more people do too ---
Heidi Sands
7/18/17
Billionaires oh billionaires
Stop counting your stocks and shares
While the workers break their backs
You need to pay more bloody tax.
It is rather funny
That you make much of your money
From government contracts
While the poor face your attacks.
Just stop being jerks
Enjoying tax deductible perks
And resist the need
For unquenchable greed.
Give money to worthy causes
Don’t worry about your future divorces
Don’t worry about IRS raids
You might save someone with HIV/AIDS.
This is something I’m sure you know
“You can’t take it with you when you go”
So make human compassion
The overwhelming fashion.
Please listen to my gentle persuasion
And go easy on the tax evasion
People won’t just like you for your wealth
They’ll be attracted to your generous self.
It’s never too late to start
So think of others and open your heart
Do what the mean spirited lacks
And pay your fair share of tax.
Pity the Poor Octopus
The octopus is a curious creature
With eight long tentacles his most outstanding feature.
But because of his oddly shaped cephalopod bod,
He's not one of those who looks stylish in clothes,
For his head's much too big to put a hat upon.
And like the squid and the manta,
He could never play Santa,
'cause he has no lap to be sat upon.
Christmas Q and A:
Q: What's a favorite Christmas holiday entertainment for many domineering women?
A: "The Nutcracker"
Q: Why is it better to give at Christmas than to receive?
A: it might be tax deductible.
Q: What would the Sugar Plum one be if she had a bad case of hypertrichosis?
A: A very hairy fairy.
Merry Christmas Poetry Soup!
Glitches of A Broken System
Ongoing support fiber with the Universe.
Ticket #001: Common Sense
Status: Depreciated since 1999
User: Common Sense won't boot up in group settings.
Tech: We replaced that feature with " Comment Section "
Workaround: Nod slowly and back away
Ðo? not feed the trolls. Ticket Closed
Ticket #404 The Middle Class I submitted a ticket to the Universe last Tuesday.
Subject line: Existence.exe keeps crashing at rent.
Tech: " Have you tried being born to different parents?".
Clear your cache of dreams and restart your bootstrap, upgrade to Premium Reality.
Note" Premium not available in Zipcode 12345
Ticket#503: Healthcare
User: " I clicked "see doctor" and got an error " Insurance not found.
Tech: " That's a feature, not a bug. Please
Sacrifice 3 chickens and 1 deductible to continue.
Estimated wait time: Your whole life
Ticket #006: Climate
User: Planet. Earth is overheating. Urgent!!!
Tech: Did you try turning it off and on again?
We recommend recycling. Have a nice day.
Auto-closed due to inactivity.
the streets still hum the same tired tune—
neon promises,
beer bottles rolling in the gutter
like broken dreams with barcodes.
everybody’s got a phone
but nobody’s got a pulse.
we scroll past each other
like ghosts in a supermarket aisle
looking for god between the cereal boxes.
the rich keep smiling
because smiling is tax-deductible,
and the poor keep hoping
because hope’s still free—
for now.
politicians shake hands
as if they’re testing the weight
of your wallet,
preachers pray on Sundays
and prey the rest of the week.
the poets still write,
not for fame,
but to keep from setting the place on fire.
and maybe that’s enough—
a few words in the dark,
a whisper over the static,
saying:
we’re still here,
damn it—
we’re still here.
Please don't anybody ask me to decide anything. I do not know
The difference between, the Concord or a Jet Plane
The Republican or the Democrats,
White lies or some faker boldfaces fibbers
The donkey audible or the gold $$$ signs
Each of them has his or hers agenda to threaten small businesses
Like our MA & Pa's Country Stores
What is next to give city contract to street whores?
You stole from poor and you gave to the rich
how unfortunate:
investing billions of dollars into useless political funds
let wait and see which canidiate is going to get the job done
To send a man to the moon is costly
taking care of a homeless shelter is leisure: and tax deductible
However, giving millions dollars companies a hefty tax break:
not so sensible.
Please don't anybody ask me to decide anything. I do not know
How is the weather outside, it is raining? Sunny or simply gloomy
Because I guarantee one day someone is going to sue me.
Either for libel or slander
Or just for being a party pooper: Like our famous America future
Sarah P
Please don’t anybody ask me to decide anything.
because my views on world politics is shilly-shally.
He could suck joy out of a daisy,
turn a Spring day to dust and grit.
His belief was a second-hand fire-sale.
His wife practiced adultery,
gamely trying to perfect the craft.
She would join him at the pulpit,
to appreciative applause.
Her blond hair a halo
glowing with an electric light.
She was his tax-deductible angel,
but he did not love her.
He loved only the vengeance
of an unforgiving deity,
long since cast in the role
of divine curmudgeon.
When he returned home
to find his angel sucking the joy
from a parishioner’s upright daisy,
he had no doubt in his God’s words,
and the power in them
to enslave.
Ocean Falls, B.C. has on average
Over 300 days of rain a year
Surely not somewhere I'd want to live
Many attempt suicide I hear
Canadians have a funny habit of
Ending each sentence with an “eh”
Couldn't be a bank robber in the U.S.A.
The “eh” would be a dead giveaway
Average number of folks in our households
Is roughly 2.6, give or take
Would sure like to meet that .6 person
An interesting image that'd make
Millions attend our Calgary Stampede
But we're really not a bunch of yahoos
We're a very computer literate country
Emails we send quite a slew
A unique Canadian one dollar coin
Was introduced back in 1987
It's affectionally known as a loonie
But it doesn't describe us, thank heaven
Even dog food here is tax-deductible
Expecting big lineups at immigration
Reason to migrate to this wonderful land
We welcome folks from ever nation
© Jack Ellison 2103