Long Superintendent Poems

It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps if I got on a plane, I would see Santa...

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Neither Tray or I take any guff from adults, especially adults in authority; it’s a result of having had the belt when you are young, thus learning you cannot trust your care-givers or anyone else.
In...

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In a sense
each person capable of understanding these words
and those who speak diverse languages together
are island nations
splitting in two
by love
or fear
or both.

I have been concerned about the U.S. island of fundamentalist Christians,
formerly part of the...

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My opinion on religion Take 1
I am in the unexpected throes of spring cleaning
Suddenly with no warning 
7 people are unexpectedly arriving in a few minutes for an Easter lunch.
Easter lunch already?
Why didn’t anyone mention...

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During the second century, there were many Christians who were tortured and put to death for being Christian. There was one named Sanctus* who, when tortured, simply answered, "I am a Christian."  By my...

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"Different is not broken"
Imagine,
A hopeless place, a place where 
you're told your never gunna 
matter,
where teachers give you A's 
just to get that pay,
Because our government set it 
up that way,
A place where, Parents ...

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Dream Keys
      by Odin Roark

A NY mantra
Rent the rentable
Move the movable
Key the keyable

Apartments

Four-wall-guardian of yesterday’s youth
Vacuous cellmates of old age loneliness
All part of a cyclic maze
All having a key
Urban life’s...

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The eraser belonged to me; it was saved by my mother and returned along with many other 
childhood items when I became middle aged. I was curious as to why she would save a 
stubby...

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He rode in to Santa Fe one summer day on a broken-down, sweaty nag.
All he owned was the clothes on his back and the Bible in his saddle bag.
He wore a suit of black, an...

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I’ve been working since I was twelve years old,
But my first on-the-books job
Was as a sailor in the US Navy,
Gunners Mate.
Six years and three Westpac deployments.
Fifty months of sea duty
Changed me for good and bad.
Over...

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A dear friend says I'm brave to go it solo in the city…
she has a husband - seven kids - two dogs - and a neurotic cat
        yet...

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Heat slows on in summer,
Trains are rolling slow
Cold slows on in winter,
When it hits twenty five below.
Other crews working in the yard 
Makes getting out extremely hard.
Trainmaster yelling, wondering when we will leave,
I just go...

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"Super credence...!"
Coming from the west,
Known by many;very popular and people's figure, 
Qualified with soft speech,modified with prominent smile,
Dressed with simplicity,but very focal, 
The complexion is matched to brilliance, 
Lifted up in air was the nose;catching...

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Split two razors and a line of coke
Exhale the dimes and swallow the smoke
Nine-twenty-one, eighty-six
Gamble my life like lottery picks
Cry tears of blood and see what your god does
Bringing future problems
To those who so desperately...

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Being faithful to the biggest lies,
spoiled by delusions and corrupted ties.
Shallow shared psychosis belief,
highly specialist identity thief.
Psychiatric syndrome media charm,
everybody has to have it with no harm.
Puppeteers providing the mediocre script,
rewarding richly those who become...

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We met at our ministers cottage,
Became friends and conversationalists.

The cottage was very scenic,
A beautiful glass structure, furnished and comfortable.

They had a beautiful bench outside where you could sit,
I met a handsome friend there.

We had a...

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The “Saga” of the Lonely Cactus 

by Miriam McCue


Introduction:
:
Characters in order of appearance:

Lonely Cactus: He is a  6 foot Saguaro cactus with two arms (kind that looks like a man from 
a distance.) ...

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Fate's Footfalls in the Carrollton Halls

Once a principal had a drug problem.
He lived on the grounds of the school.
Sleeping with blankets on the hard third floor
had been his routine rule.

One night he set his office...

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Next item up for bid, a rare coin of mine
Is one 1894 s silver Liberty dime
Only 24 of these coins were minted that year
That is, in San Francisco, let me be clear
In case anyone here...

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Yes i am the only one, who make love from hate,
Don't look suspiciously, you heard me accurate,
Take all your hate together, put into a crate,
I'll give you half kg love for per kg of weight,

No...

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My principal is one
Of the best four principals
I have ever met, told me she 
Saw her budget, and the counselor
For her school (our school if you include me)
Gets a counselor for 4 days next year,...

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Always on a razor’s edge
In the loony cage
Now opening this window
Now closing that
Now busy at this arrow
Now tackling the aching marrow


For the sweet bones moves the cat
The wolf seeks to shift
From old veins to a...

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Cynthia Kwiecinski and Suzanne Colby
  You've broken every rule of civility
  With the execrable decision you made recently

  You withdrew a job offer from a school superintendent
  for addressing you as...

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Know you are the absolute best,
The new kid has given a test.
You stayed calm cool, and collected,
So completely unaffected,
His childish behavior a test


We are watching you here at the school
Your resistance makes some of us...

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