Sorry Patriotic Poems

At five feet, five and a hundred and ten
The Marines said, “sorry, too small of a man.”
Yet he became greatest of World War men,
The Army’s...

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He was old and haggard, in the year nineteen twenty something
A tall lanky old man, with a worn out hat and a rusty ring
His squint...

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as the Towers die away 
alone on a beach where thunderheads Roll 
where I stood far from
shards of glass fire, horror, disaster
they televised only elemental...

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Huge Dreaming Body 			

This huge dreaming body, spanning two
continents, clothed in rags of prairie grasses, 
cloaked in folded ranges, chained in mega malls,
this huge body...

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Not too many decades out of college
I finally landed my first full-time job,
as a White House speech writer.

I know,
you would expect
I would not start at...

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Thou, O king, hast made a decree, 
that every man that shall hear the
sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, 
and all kinds...

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I finished high school four months prior to my 18th birthday. By this time, my country was heavily engaged in the Vietnam war.  I...

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Dear Toni,

I saw you on The Daily Show
the other day
having your way
with Trevor,
or was it the other way around?
Not sure.

I'm also not sure where we...

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Here is a lesson, a tortuous tale for your next-of-kin,
About a political hack we'll call the Bigly Pumpkin.
It's a bit like star wars, he is...

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On that dark night ,
When the whole country calmly slept,
In the silence of those cold winters,
Those brave men slowly crept ,
Loaded with ammunition,
With only one...

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When I was born in 1949, Harry Truman was the President of The United States.  Of course I do not personally remember him. ...

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You have my soul, but you have your fate
Whatever your words, I’m willing to take
You have my word; I’ll give you my breath
It’s like a...

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As sin and perversion often 
become integrated…
So many lives and families 
are being “disintegrated.”

Many are being driven by sin’s temptation force…
It’s no wonder much of...

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If you ever heard of this story
If you ever felt the presence of a stranger 
If his words were soft and kind
And you could see...

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Globally, miners jubilantly jump for joy
Smiles on the faces of every girl and boy
The grins of a newly opened Xmas toy
Thatcher’s dead.

Trade unionists bounce along...

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