Long Rescheduled Poems

May  2051

Dear diary I think I'll try for a part
Time job which I just know beyond
Anything I'm gonna hate! So I'll work
It out um. Without a doubt. I just
Don't wanna sit at home to...

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I
When we first met I thought you were the one.
We were close together during that trip to the mountain. 
Every activity we were together.
By the bonfire we sat together
To me you were young and pretty...

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(alternately titled: Whew...
so glad I chose absentee/ mail-in ballot),
and agitate (poetically)
November presidential election
brings requisite equality.

Unforeseen (unprecedented)
stiff competition with protesters
crowdsourced within major
Pennsylvania metropolitan areas
necessitating president

to confront inconvenient truth
he (whom even
Voldemort would not name)
must trumpet forth progressive
unilateral...

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caught or accused; arrested
handcuffed, fingerprinted, mugshot
processed through, bunk or cot
cell, cellmate(s), population 
will there be a bond or nah?
anticipation for hearing: fearing
postponed rescheduled new date
appointed public defender
no communication, no information
questions about the charge(s)
finally, court date...

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Date:  August    2051

Hi  diary. I have a upcoming appointment with my Landlord!
Oh my gosh! I have waited in want
For a home that can satisfy my
Need for luxury. And  diary....
Luxury....

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Friends,
Trumpians,
EcoFeminists

We gather here
to no longer hear divisions
across a win/lose 
zero-sum aisle
so we can see revisions
within a win/win
nonzero-exponential
future free of buried guile.

Green flowing fullness
no longer mourned
for lost love of deep theistic
preculturing wealth
buried in steep 
sacred indigenous
metaphoric...

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The tails we tell ourselves To make ourselves feel warmth. restart with goodnight then we've changed. We believe the lies we tell ourselves Need those tails to tell ourselves hugs. Kisses jumps before you sleep....

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rushing one morning I missed the bus 
and found out the next day that It was in an accident
there were some fatalities
It was not my time

the airplane trip that I was scheduled to take
was moved...

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I can see them.
Even after almost being impaled.
Still. 
I could die without even knowing. 
Instead, I don’t.

I saw them outside today. 
Hot tea does that to you.
Makes everything burning hot. 
Recoiling. 
As if they’re coming...

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The Business of Autumn 
David J Walker

1.	The season of dry clouds and Canada Geese
        Arrived over the weekend

2.	The weatherman says the freeze was 
    ...

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A poem for Lillie on her christening day

Spurs game rescheduled in an unkind way 
It's important and we’d love to watch them play 
 
Need to put it into perspective though and say 
We can...

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Happily never ever after,
Said the frog to the princess,
"We have only til' midnight until this fairytale is over"
With a glide of a wand, the godmother reversed back all memories
Of stories made up of tall tales,...

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Because of the weather, the game was rained out.
Baseball is something many of us can’t do without.
It’s the only sport we get to see throughout the summer.
When the game is postponed, it usually is a...

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