Environmental Concerns
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Ponder the old pestles and mortars
used at times in apothecaries,
older drug emporium quarters.
Some of the porous surface was shared
by grinding both mortar and pestle
ending up in medicine...
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Categories:
microwavable, 11th grade, pollution,
Form: Tristich
Talking Points
...Her world is a paranoid marketplace.
Fear is the zeitgeist and panic her shame.
She’d married her psyche to a dog whistle pimp
Who’d promised her he’d drain the swamp.
And sure enough, he did.
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Categories:
microwavable, allegory, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
I'M Just As Bizzare As the Rest of Them
...Why am I so quirky when it comes to my daily routine?
for I always thought these things could go unforeseen.
Last night I pulled out a microwavable meal of cuisine,
looked at the time...
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Categories:
microwavable, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Salt and Pepper Shakers
...There's this break room—
Where I work, of course—
That holds three microwaves,
one refrigerator, a stove,
and two vending machines.
All cannot be younger than
Five years at the earliest.
This ...
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Categories:
microwavable, culture, environment,
Form: Lyric
Sitting In Bed
...Sitting in bed.
It’s time for sleep, shower first.
Three baskets of clean clothes, bedside.
Cats' nocturnal sport rumbling across the wood floor, mother pouncing daughter, chasing rubber balls.
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Categories:
microwavable, good night, life, my
Form: Free verse
Grandma
...Grandma,
You are the wise one of the family. You are the
giver and doer, and true believer. You shape us,
as we grow. You are there for the good and bad, and
all the in betweens. You play parts, th...
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Categories:
microwavable, beautiful, giving, granddaughter, grandparents,
Form: Free verse