Long Supervisors Poems

Herpetologist meets actress (Cameron Diaz).
If he's funny he's me.
South America or Africa (on location).
In a diamond mind.
The protagonists (lovers), the diamonds, the miners and the minders.
By minders we mean watchers, organizers, supervisors.
As all art must:...

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I could not do what you are mandated to do
every day on society's justice bench,
weighing retributive justice 
against restorative healing.

I cannot look with any comfort
at police
and correction officers'
routinely criminalizing vocations,
and courtroom injudicious levying of fines
against...

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Dear self-conscious, enthusiastic, helper girl,

My words of advice to you are to take one day at a time.  For even your worst day, is only 24 hours.  There are so many times you...

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our way to the end of the work day is through
laughter &
as long as we must endure this system’s bull*****absurdity,
where we work for crumbs thrown to us by the 1% of the rich
tossing them to...

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His hand reached out to mine, open, 
Holding it, I smiled, our eyes danced with understanding, 
Form and blush outlined his expectations, 
But I could see that there may be fear inside. 

Mary restated their...

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i am the lord your god & all that is wrong 
in the world has been spawned by a fallen angel of whom
i created so that he would tempt humankind into madness---
if you have a...

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My subject is nothing new.  It's been around since Adam and Eve.  Like the 
snake and the apple.

It's the enabled kid who throws a ball through a window, while the enablers, his parents,...

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I asked Eddy on this and he asked me who told me. I said one of the lads but I don’t want you hurting him. He was fine. I said I knew a bank robber...

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Why was my whole special school life, 
An interpretation of nature and school?
A philosophical contemplation and analysis,
A freeway inquiry into the education tool. 

Because the god concept was lain out,
On the household table, delicately spread,...

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Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved. 
Great lines, something to think about (Edward Thomas) 
Woke up to the rain and the wind beating on my windowpane, 
Yet I thought of getting dressed and...

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Lions in Sheep skins
Is all that is left in the World
No more brotherhood and kins
The world before only need to be told.

From family members to friends,
Supervisors to managers,
Officials to Religious leaders,
Neighbourhood and abroad,
The pure heart...

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in elementary school
they used to give scratch n’ sniff stickers
they used to give not only gold stars,
but all the stars of the 
kid-done-a-good-job
rainbow (my favorite was the
purple)---
and back then, this was beautiful,
much like all the...

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Cave men were brilliant once upon a time
Women not so much as history tells us
Not good for hunting in the past
Here's why
The hunting of berries is a specialized science
Not just a simple sport

Females are too...

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Amazingly, Alice assaulted an antelope
Because Bobby’s beavers became bold,
Considering cantilevered canines
Deliberately devastating donor’s doled.

Evelyn entirely excited electric eels
Failing forlornly from forward fencing,
Gaining ground gathering genuine gold
Her happiness heralded high financing.

I indicated initially incapable innocents
Justifying joyous...

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She supervisors the Salon with aplomb
Looking after her own clients with skill
Yet keeping a watchful eye on all
Trainees are dispatched to various duties
Computers crash but she handles all
Her skills as a hairdresser are renown
Yet her...

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Our mayor and city council know what to do
The county supervisors and talk show hosts too

Budget measure HHH we Angelinos passed
Costing billions, homelessness would end at last

There were 57,000 unhoused in L.A. last year
Now it’s...

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Here's to my family
Here's to my friends
Here's to my acquaintances
  On whose help I depend

Here's to my mom
Here's to my dad
Here's to my relatives
  Whom I met as a lad

Here's to my sisters
Here's...

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We rarely get to see our friends
When they are off at work.
We hear about their colleagues
Or their boss who is a jerk.

But picturing their office
Or wherever they’re employed
Isn’t something we spend time on –
(Not unless...

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I will not say it’s not you, it’s me.
I could not insult you like this.
I want you to know however….

I am not going to be able to write a reference letter.
It’s not that I do...

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Many songs and poems have been written 
about blue Mondays which have bitten
those who work for a living
and have jobs that are unforgiving.

Mondays are hard to face
for those who live a fast pace 
on weekends...

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The carriage arrived at the ball a few minutes fashionably late.
Which was exactly what Fairy Godmother had hoped for.
However, the carriage was empty.
The door opened and no one appeared.
Where is she? F.G. asked the footman.
He...

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The noise level is ridiculous.
Students are turned in their seats; a no no during a pandemic.
Rooster noises waft through.
We don’t know where they come from, due to the masks.

There is a Soprano’s scream, some stomping.
We...

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Apricot Melts Daily Sorrows.
Apricot Dissipates Daily Strains.
Apricot Dulls Daily Physical Pains.
Apricot Deceives All Others.
Apricot Emotionally and Physically Isolates.
Apricot Purges First True Love.
Apricot Forgives A Deceased Father.
Apricot Forgives A Deceased Mother.
Apricot Distances A Living Brother.
Apricot Abandons...

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Only girls in the pink nursery...
(A boy was seen once in a blue corridor.)
This is a small girl's place.
Toys are not unisex, but pink here,
and the supervisors make sure.

At nine, there's a flurry of little...

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