Long Helsinki Poems

Everything bonds so quickly I can hardly find a place the move the trigonometry of the earth has placed everything in a cluster beneath the hidden dirt.

 I can get from Helsinki to Copenhagen in...

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It smells a little like Christmas
Cold and kind of like peaches-don't make fun of that
And it's not even September
And this time I swear if you jump off that
I'm not going to the hospital
My blood stained...

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I noticed her limp immediately
when she sat next to me on the bench
in the park outside of the Prado.
I inquired about her deep brown eyes
behind her octagonal glasses
that looked sad and defeated.
“I was robbed here...

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Behind your earlobe there was a birthmark that had the shape of palestine 
But they taught you in there that it was called israel 
In the hearth of your chest lied a heart full of...

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She descended from a far away land
I was from the backwoods
She was my life and death
I was her lover boy

They taught me simple things
Beware of seductive pretty strangers
How to drive a car very fast and...

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Athens, quite a place, so full of mythology
Buenos Aires, in Argentina, a place I'd love to see

Canberra, is just antipodean class
Dublin, a pint of Guinness in a glass

Edinburgh, the capital of the Scots
Freetown, a city,...

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The holidays are history and winter settles in with
its pain-in-the-rear wind chill; a light covering
of snow finally brightens the mood for a day or two
until it’s washed away by rain. The sump is broken and...

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Just make your selection
Shoot in that direction
Roll the seven or eleven,
then you’ve made the right connection.

Once more,
the point is four.
Just like before.
Hard ways of ten, eight, six, and four.
If you bet them before,
you can bet...

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The Escape 

When Rudolph the red nosed reindeer wanted to
Be normal and join the flock on earth, Santa got depressed
Sat by many of Finland’s lakes contemplating his life
He too was tired of flying through the...

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When entering negotiations with a criminal mastermind
Who just happens to be a dictator, cruel and unkind
   of a country with a long record of opposing freedom
   and crushing opponents to death...

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Down from Helsinki
Late night walks on
The beach of the Gulf
Of Bothnia Sea Me And
My Baby although the
Sky is starless and there
Is a strong breeze from?
Out of the south coming
Quickly we are lost in
The moment we...

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How I love you how I love you 
trump Helsinki I O U 

Taking a knee in front of Putin
The most egregious sin 

Denying US intelligence of voting hack
trump gave Russia deniable slack

Given the facts...

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