School Rat Poems

Assumed best in all people under sun,
Generous with love, the Fish never done.
Every true smile was his only desire;
Never thought to be target of fire.

Truth...

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Rat-a-tat-tat, hear the guns on the street,
children are shooting children in their school.
And yet, gun control bills end in defeat,
corporate America is no fool.

Money matters...

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The things that the school jokester would do 
There’s times he almost turned the air blue
He would moon when in class:
Which was not a class...

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My transportive 
awesome Muse
speaks of a hiking trail
for an aging snail.

My communicative
wondrous music
is dancing choreography
for an ageless bee
coming.


I ask if I might speak
with the Editor...

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Bubble the rat knew all of the words,
Of all the songs that you’ve ever heard,
He would sing in church below the nave,
And would accompany grieving...

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I crossed the yard
two-thirds awake,
intent upon 
that coffee break:

young teacher hunk,
one tall, cool stud
(before the Night,
before the Flood,

before the Flight
of all that’s good,
before the Blight
brought...

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Parents control what their kids are taught
It's not a matter of them wanting to or not
Go to school and get a job
That's how people pay...

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O squalling baby fat and red,
Laying on your nursery bed,
Clamber down onto the floor,
Crawl or toddle out the door.
Go to school. Graduate.
Take another for your...

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