Rum n Raisin 15 - World Wide Web
...If you’re a human, a word of advice
Don’t leave computers with cats, rats or mice
If these share your home but you need to be gone
For heavens sake make sure that you’re not logged on.
Some cre...
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Categories:
newsreader, animal, cat, dog, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Veteran Code
...Veterans helping veterans
That’s how the code goes
For there are certain things
Only a fellow veteran knows.
On the local radio news
The newsreader had said
A man was attacked
And been found d...
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Categories:
newsreader, encouraging, mental illness, military,
Form: Rhyme
Covid Stealing Oxygen Slam
...When you break down the
top headline story
Into the simplest of terms
No human being on earth
Even a child could not misinterpret
Or fail to understand
When and what the newsreader
i...
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Categories:
newsreader, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Hope
...I turn on the television
the newsreader in hectoring tones
recites
his sorry litany;
Emergency
Catastrophe
Disaster
Death
so I turn the television off;
notice how loud
the bir...
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Categories:
newsreader, courage, faith, fear, hope,
Form: Blank verse
A Country
...We multiply by a bomb
Then we bear another.
We drag our children into passport documents.
We multiply far from the bedroom
And spit on our wedding day -
never paying attention to the tears.
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Categories:
newsreader, war,
Form: ABC