Dog No Choice Poems

There was a time when helping people was an easy thing to do,
The right thing to do,
Now we ponder to do or not to do,
And...

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This is the 2nd THIRD of my 3-part poem - see Mark Stellinga on Poetry Soup for the other 2 THIRDS - couldn't be helped.



“What...

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Here's the deal, folks...

   This is, as indicated, the 3rd THIRD of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this...

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They chased me down and took me up. 
I was stunned by a ray for it was the sixties, was it not?
The Fifty Foot Woman...

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Montgomery County Pennsylvania housing choice voucher...
eligibility predicated upon mandatory fingerprinting

Courtesy anticipatory anxiety
breeds palmar hyperhidrosis
(i.e. hands adrip
with profuse perspiration)
honest to dog truthfully
most inconvenient malady

holds Earthling (yours...

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crushed at rock bottom he gathered the fragments of descent

slow motion agony that started at a plateau of deluded deceit

free falling sadness spiraling out of...

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Level
Four minutes to do what you want
What ya gonna do?
Listen to a pop song
Get half a ********
Smoke a cigarette
Drive round the block
Read two pages...

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stethoscope ends
emerged from ears,
lady vet’s task
then grimly done—
take your time here,
offered her aide
while tears seeped up
as faithful dog,
grown feebly-old,
lay still, inert,
after last breath:
	sad, lonely choice,
		my...

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Have you ever noticed this trend? 
It might be a drought or a war, 
Blows quick to strike and slow to mend, 
And even if...

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"You've got six months, nine at the most.
If you opt for chemo, we could stretch it some.
Maybe a couple of years, 
but first six months...

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We live in a world of treacherous pathways
We live in a world of doubt, fear and pain
A world of great riches and unspeakable poverty
But life...

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