I don't endorse 'going with flow'
for of course you never know
if the current will funnel
you down the drain
the tubes or flume
through the tunnel
toward the spume
to where you end up
in the sewer below
so as I'm in no rush to gush
or feel completely flushed
here and now I do avow
for me the bowl on the whole
is a non-starter a definite no-go
steam rises from vents
the streets haze like fog machines
at a rocket concert
The Whip is cracking the leather
Since Trump is under the weather
We can't become, "Great"
Until every State
Is willing to work together
Once was thunderbox in the yard,
Night time trips were really hard,
Scary jaunt to our exterior loo,
It had spiders in there too,
Now there are indoor ablutions,
Praise God for sewer evolution.
As a child I was walking home from school one day;
It was a rainy spray;
A direly day;
We have gotten our report cards;
As kids we were running home;
In and out up and down;
Crossing the streets;
At the corners peak;
Running hard and fast;
Trying not to get wet;
Out of my pocket fell my report card;
I'm crying because I dropped .......
Down a storm drain, gone forever;
Are the written documentation of my first A's and B's;
Report card;
That fell out my pocket
In the rain
fallen lost wet down inside the storm drain;
3/21/19
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Sewer of Good Deeds
Of good deeds always did like being a sewer,
And sometimes will become a whistleblower;
With no doubt;
Work things out;
Our moral values arose and no longer lower.
Jim Horn
Sewer of Sadness
Walking in the dark down a hole I fall
Slipping in the darkness that consumes me
Crashing to the bottom feeling so small
Wet sewerness in constant misery
She showed me the signs I chose not to see
Now in emptiness I long for the chance
to start over again in our romance
Knowing I will never receive this wish
Dreaming of her closeness in one more dance
waking up in defecation with fish
05/13/16
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