Long Freeloading Poems

The past scampers out of view. 
Like the paw prints of a cat running to the bush.
The wheel of time follows no straight line.
As we sometimes trace back over the lines.
In the recesses of our...

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I retired a couple years ago
and decided to take a gardening class
because otherwise I probably would starve
even with food stamps,
given my retirement plan
was mainly to live off my still-freeloading adult perpetual-children.

This gardening class cost more...

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Once I was thinking of building a shopping plaza, just along the Gaza strip
But those Israeli's being what they are I thought my sales could take a dip

So, I thought I'd build a set of...

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Sometimes, as an American, 
and a poet, 
The tears flow down face...
All countries seem to hate us,
As though they lived in an
Eternal state of kindness and grace?

I wonder, why any American would 
dare post a...

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She was a grandmother, and my Mother.
Who cared for her grand-daughter, like no other.
Bought her new clothes, new shoes.
Mother never sang,"I'm too sick, or tired,"

She funded my daughter's swimming and tennis lessons.
They were not cheap,...

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You think you’re something’ special,
cause you’re Arizona bound!
You think we’re really gonna feel it,
when you’re no longer 'round!

You prob’ly think that we’ll feel sad,
and some of us will cry,
as we shake your hand or kiss...

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Freeloading
Taking what was given by someone else for something else

A gift with a tinge of obligation
Tacit codes

From the animal that is me
To the ungrateful optimizer
A love of expectation

Is it a kiss if it's unwilling
branded by...

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Kind of Blue…

Slinking into a still hue of blues 
Haunting trumpets dart in and out
Like taxi horns in freeloading traffic
And cling like silk onto full figured rifs 
When winsome modal notes wear sleek cobalt 
...

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They try to be nice to me
They try to encourage me
But I'm not a fool
What you're doing ain't cool
You treat me like a tool
Just don't be cruel

You bully me every day
Impaling my emotions like a...

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Experience is not the best of teachers
The sharpest blades
The finest men and women
Have all been tempered with care
As have the tools and  sleights of working class
Responsibility is the best of teachers
And the harshest disciplinarian
If...

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Crime Don’t Pay,
Freeloading Does
Written: by Miracle Man
11-5-2019

Too many are obsessed,
with today’s free stuff.
To this kind of talk,
some take exception and rebuff.

Oblivious to the fact,
and without even a hunch.
That another pays the bill
for every free lunch.

What...

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Pockets of Dreams


Empty pockets filled of hopes and dreams 
Yearning to feel the touch of moneys many men
Wishing to taste salts of audacious seas 
Wetting of aroused dreams and curiosities 
Pondering a poor man’s hope
Knowing...

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