Wife New York Poems

It’s Christmas Eve, Babe
In the car pound
It shouldn’t be this way
Should not have been found

But I’m the lucky one
I am the thirteenth one
And when I...

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high rise
get high rays
and wetter 
on wet days
closer 
to aeroplanes
in lanes like cars 
soldiers of concrete
steel feet in wars
in pillars 
like Lot’s wife
or muggers
with sharp...

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TRUMP POEMS AND EPIGRAMS II

Quite Con-trary
by Michael R. Burch aka "The Loyal Opposition"

Trumpy, Trumpy,
fat, balding and lumpy,
how does your Rose Garden grow?
“With venom and spleen
and...

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Coming to the city? Bring your gun
So you can shoot at anyone!
Target practice is such fun;
No laws will you be bending.

All those rules you used...

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How bad can it get, don't ask me that question 
I'm on the 97th floor terrified, 
hanging from a window, gasping for breath
You want to...

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Truth Matters

Deplorable. 
That is what I am. 
That is okay with me. 
I work hard, 
Have a family. 
I support my wife, 
and my own...

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Photograph.
             Hasidic Deli Owner
         ...

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Life's margins are too narrow for proofreading: a poor catch of extra commas,  profiles of girls and monograms of insomnia. For literature, an earthly...

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“9/11”


I have seen the Sword of Anguish
As it seared its blinding wrath across the faces of millions.

I have tasted the salt of their tears
Released in...

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I like the way you walk Mademoiselle
You do it like you do and do it well.
This Frenchman though a foreigner admires
that wiggle wen you walk-like...

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That fatefull day nine eleven,
a day that scattered our heavens.
All was at peace then came attacks,
from cowards behind our backs.
Both towers under the test,
from terrorists...

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The taxi driver’s English was from Spain, or Portugal, or Greece, a  hard life

He drove me all over town, telling about his family, or...

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Fabulous Fifties

is what they called it,

we just called it a good time.

It was a great time in history

to be a teenager, to have our

youth, it...

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