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The Starry Cow

One More Cow, One More Sow
Another acre cultivated
By a shining plough
The farmer’s son takes off his hat
Wiping the sweat from his brow

Their productive loans are being called in
Lives changed at the financier’s whim
To survive, they’ll work for life and limb
Yet their malnourished bones are wearing thin

The processor purchases milk below cost
And no buyers for our fields of maize
It looks like all hope is now lost
It seems, rarely these days 
That honest work ever pays

One More Cow, One More Sow
We are coming closer, acre by acre
Until we use our Starry Plough
Let’s grow a harvest from the soil
And struggle living from our toil

Shopping in Stores

Sometimes in a store I browse
And other times I buy.
It all depends on what they’ve got
That might just catch my eye.

And even if I fall in love,
An item might not make it
For if I can’t display it,
There’s no reason I should take it.

Today, 3 times that happened -
Two with posters, one sans frame.
I just don’t have the wall space
So I couldn’t stake my claim.

The last, a set of tumblers,
Painted with assorted eyes,
Turned the concept of “eye glasses”
Into such a fun surprise.

Still, I had to stop and ponder
If the joke was worth the price 
And I came to the conclusion
That the mem’ry would suffice.

Yet I also made 2 purchases-
Some clothing and a gift
Which, along with pumpkin ice cream,
Gave my day a welcome lift.

Peace is a heartbeat from death

The trigger finger,

Button of mass destruction:

Blood-lust from father to
son passed -- children learn
by what parents do, even more than
from what we say

Let us pray:

Dear God, save us from self inflicted
evil today; 

Save us from such sad sorrow going
into the morrow;

Let Your Christ Sacrifice be not for
naught; in Your mercy and fairness
penitently our refuge is sought

The Devil rules when Love forsaken

Every grave a plot where lies a precious
child, victim of another wrongly taught

Though far wiser purchases for mankind

Warrior mentality

Weapons of war is the industry

Most sold 

And naively bought....

Today's Music

The art was most masterful on the dark canvas
Or is it still the most wonderful here on Earth?
I sense the art delves out from the ears of Kansas
Providing me reasons for the faults of my birth

The dark canvas a decade ago spoke pure gold
Now all I see is sheep shopping for one’s shame
Pyrotechnics? Poses? Pouts? Purchases? So old
A dog-eat-dog world gives thy name a fame they won’t blame

Talent alone speaks no fortune, but fear and foes
I see a shooting star and I’d say to myself
I wish such nonsense was never the case. There goes!
There goes my hall of fame. On a rancid rusty shelf.

Nonetheless, those lips that kiss and swear won’t survive
Neither will the words of money run from thy mouth
Let the moment of my truth prevail and arrive
And you’d see someday all this racket would go south



  
Poem for 'Choose a topic sentence' contest
Hosted by Miranda Hawley
Chosen sentence - 'The art was most masterful on the dark canvas'
The chosen sentence is on the very first verse.

Swiper's Revenge

    Swiper goes to the drug store of a nearby town.
Purchases ear muffs, staff, nun chakas, 
and duct tape for Dora's mouth...

Parcel Plastics

Provision-purchases
Prevail
Paper-bags pull-apart
Preferably
Possible process...
Endeavors
Easily executed
Ending these is
Endless
Endeavor...
Seen dead
They resurrect
Restlessly
Leisurely linger like
Spirits of sinners...
Like the flesh of creatures
Creatures cannot
Consume these
Exist eternally
As ecological errands...
Carrying them to
Carry my provisions
Continue
Intentions Immobilize
Impotently!

UNSCREW

I am feeling fraught,
And, stupid too,
I don't know what to do.
I need to open a screw-top bottle,
Which I am about to throttle.

Bottle tops and lids on things
Also, those with tin pull rings.
Exasperate me.

I feel useless when I buy
Parcel that I can't untie
Tags that are too small to see
That should open the cling-wrapped purchases easily.

To button up a shirt or blouse
That used to take seconds
It could take hours.
Time is of the essence,
So it's said

Then there is another saying,
"You are a long time dead"
It must be my thinking that is askew.
As I furiously shake the bottle,
That I can't unscrew!

Different Tastes

We all have very different tastes
In books and art and food,
In where we live and what we do
To lift a sagging mood.

The way we dress, our travel plans
And when we sleep and wake,
Our politics, religion
And the purchases we make.

What’s right for me most likely
Wouldn’t work as well for you,
So each of us must choose our path
And do what we must do.

A million options wait in life
But most we will reject,
Though somehow some might overlap
And we will then connect.

Cash Back

I get more cash back from my credit card purchases, 
than I do from my bank account's annual accumulated interest.

Reliability Is Hard To Come By

Reliability is hard to come by, I hear a sigh
Product insurance is offered when you buy
Manufacturers do build obsolescence in
Sellers know you’ll be coming back again.

Product insurance is offered when you buy
The appliance is not meant to last forever,
Sellers know you’ll be coming back again
A dependency dealers are reluctant to sever.

The appliance is not meant to last forever
Malfunctioning when you need it most,
A dependency dealers are reluctant to sever
Their product is the very best, they boast.

Malfunctioning when you need it most
You are forced to buy a replacement,
Their product is the very best, they boast,
But, now it’s in a box in your basement!

You are forced to buy a replacement
With the same promises and guarantees
But, now it’s in a box in your basement,
Life is a vicious cycle of these certainties.

With the same promises and guarantees
Product insurance is offered when you buy,
Life is a vicious cycle of these certainties,
Reliability is hard to come by, I hear a sigh. 

Written December 11, 2022
[Pantoum form, adapted]

Good Old Time of Inflation In Brazil

We  in Brazil  we were from time
   of instantaneous inflation... !
   Prices varied by minutes...
   We would "steeplechase" inside
   of the markets, chasing
   of the price remarker and its
   machine...!
   We had to run faster
   than everyone to reach to the cashier
   with the price without further readjustment...
   The morning we received
   the salary, we were "rich"...
   30 million cruzeiros in my pocket....
   In the morning we could buy
   2 shopping purchases, 2 pairs of shoes, and 2
   pants and 2 shirts... in the afternoon everything
   half... ! the other day, well
   another day, it was already agony...!

Not-Quite-Happy Returns

A package comes, you open it
And, though it seems to match
The order that you placed, there is
A big or little catch.

It doesn’t fit or isn’t quite
The item you expected
Or maybe there’s a problem
In the way it was inspected.

You print a label, wrap it up
And rapidly return it.
If there’s a lesson there, it isn’t
Hard for you to learn it:

The purchases we make online,
Though easy, cheap and quick,
Unlike the ones in person,
Often do not seem to stick.

A Poem For a Nameless Metaphor

He is lugging a heavy suitcase up a steep hill.
The suitcase is old, the kind that doesn't have wheels.
If he puts it down for a moment,
it slides downhill slipping on thin ice.

At the top of the hill is a town.
It is an old town, a town without wheels,
nothing rolls in and out of that town.

At last
the suitcase stays where it is dropped,
he watches the luggage as he slides backward.

He wonders if, downhill somewhere,
there’s a hotel?
The reception staff will be suspicious;
he has no luggage.

In a distant city
a frail old lady
purchases his suitcase from a thrift shop –
it is empty.

I Caught Covid In Spite of My Vaccinations

New York state is paying 20 cents for gloves that normally cost less than five cents, $7.50 for masks that normally go for 50 cents, $2,795 for infusion pumps that normally cost half that, $248,841 for a portable X-ray machine that typically sells for $30,000 to $80,000.

Who's pocketing all this? An array of producers, importers, wholesalers and speculators. State laws against price gouging usually don't apply to government purchases.

Some of it may be finding its way into this fall's election campaigns. The veteran Republican fundraiser Mike Gula and Republican political operative John Thomas just started a company selling coronavirus testing kits, personal protective equipment and other "hard to find medical supplies to beat the outbreak". They call themselves "the largest global network of Covid-19 medical suppliers".

Asked how he'd found such equipment, Gula explained: "I have relationships with a lot of people."

Thomas added: "In politics - especially if you're at a high enough level - you are one phone call away from anybody in the world."

Next Week In Calais

I don’t know a tweet from a twitter
  Instagram and Tik-Tok? I was a quitter
I receive lots of texts, but do not send any
  My hands get clammy from spending a penny…

Huh? Wudja say? – Yeah, I’m doing OK.
  Went to Oahu last month; next week to Calais
My life’s insured for ten million; my wife can’t complain
  She purchases bitcoin; I invest in blockchain

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