The Rites of Business
...When one hits pay-dirt
How far can this go
The thrill in success is habit forming
Success becoming currency of the day’s blo'
Materialism playing a heavy hand as judgment
With minions waitin...
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Categories:
mergers, betrayal, business, corruption, culture,
Form: Rhyme
The CIA
...I wore no uniform—
just silence and suits.
A ghost in global rooms,
a whisper behind the curtain.
I was a civilian,
but my job was war.
They called it "analysis,"
but what I did was study so...
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Categories:
mergers, abuse, betrayal, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Hold the Phone
...Hold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend!
I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean, it’s ...
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Categories:
mergers, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money,
Form: Free verse
Pretty Microscopic Mergers
...damona, look at where we are
you seem to know
have you been here before
the way that your eyes are lighting up, i think i have my answer
i just laugh as the waves crash saying hello to us
i than...
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Categories:
mergers, appreciation, growth, peace,
Form: Free verse
One Thing That Love Is
...Everything here is true
Just as stated
because it's already happened
or - it has yet to occur -
but it's very soon to occur
and I have such strong feeling
that the future will be as I see it
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Categories:
mergers, dog, love, memory, sad,
Form: Free verse
Microscopic Windfall
...Perhaps I’m facing pogonophobes?
Apparently wore the wrong face.
Age-hardened wiry wisps forge
post-pubescent platemail -
protect strangers
from my truest fleshy pores, protect me
from the x...
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Categories:
mergers, business, people, sick, society,
Form: Free verse
The Price
...Listlessly he feeds the pigeons,
strutting proudly in the park;
kicking at an empty coke can,
gravity has left its mark.
Nattily attired he's one of
many other CEOs
high atop the corpor...
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Categories:
mergers, business,
Form: Quatrain
The Tenure Star
...It all started when I took a typing test
I did 95 words per minute and made two errors
The requirement was 50 or more words
Human Resources was impressed and set up the Department interview
It wa...
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Categories:
mergers, career, celebration, clothes, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Imagery
...Picture images
World in mad swirl
We all fall down
Present in the past
Looking back gaze
Past in the present
Distorted portraits
Twirling in the blur
Misty moments unearthed
Hars...
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Categories:
mergers, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Price
...Listlessly he feeds the pigeons,
strutting proudly in the park;
kicking at an empty coke can,
gravity has left its mark.
Nattily attired he's one of
many other CEOs
high atop the corporate lad...
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Categories:
mergers, business,
Form: Quatrain
I.M.A.O
...In free fall I play to your liquid destiny,
Burn with uncontrolled desire in wet ecstasy,
Seek to quell the wind as you mist and cling to me,
Like dew drops in mergers my body swings with thee.
...
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Categories:
mergers, lifelonging, body,
Form: Free verse
The Price
...The Price
Listlessly he feeds the pigeons,
strutting proudly in the park;
kicking at an empty coke can,
gravity has left its mark.
Nattily attired he's one of
many other CEOs
high...
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Categories:
mergers, loss
Form: Rhyme
The Dual Moon
...The moon walks up trees on the dark beach,
Sand in grey, water shoo my foot prints away.
I feel my nakedness as waves roll my neck
In the coolness of warmth my body glows.
The silhouette jump p...
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Categories:
mergers, lovebody, moon,
Form: Free verse