Long Warehoused Poems

The Kakocracy has finally won.
Didn’t you know that?
The rats at the helm 
No longer fear the rat catcher.
He was been bought a long time ago
And is nothing more than an errand boy
Who knows his place.

Birth...

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Travel to Algarve

Eight boxes in a row in the middle of a grimy room, boxes looking
like each other. What’s in the boxes? The stale air of a perfumed boudoir? 
Or the sweet breeze of a...

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a hundred and three days the man was there.
until a woman in a mans robe spoke to him,
she deepened her voice so she couldn't be recognized.
she told him that he had been fooled!
his sons and...

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Now that I've got your attention
Here's what I really intend to mention

One of the most vital resources to uplift our nation
Has been warehoused and stored in suspended animation

The wise men and woman who constitute our...

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Last summer
We drove across the country
Just the wife and me

10,000 miles
31 states
Three months on the road

I now know why people don’t live 
In South Dakota

Hot, dry dusty
Windy as hell

Black Hills are nice
But after seeing Mt....

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life be short
when seen as...

on the inside
where age is...

just a consumer
item bought as...

if year by year of
work and toil is...

life's purchase 
of being as...

something completed
which is...

just a fantasy
of mind as...

an obedience defined
existence that is...

but one...

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I have never 
Actually seen all this,
I just fantasize 
In theme parks and pubs,
During an Alumni picnic,
Or while exiting bookshops.

Dreamland concoctions,
Warehoused in letters 
After mundane names
Inherited from 
A not so erudite father,
I would have the...

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