Short Abetted Poems

If they stopped giving aid to the unworthy, there would be more available to give to the worthy....

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Arrogance absorbs
an ambition
as asses attack asses:
all are astray,
aghast and alone.

Amidst atrocities
and abhorrence,
an angel aspired amity; 
amaranthine ardor: agony, absent...

Arms appeared
and accorded assistance;
all are abetted,
amidst apprehensions....

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They have given her all her wishes,
All  her wants catered to by the doting parents
Aided and abetted by the doting grandma
And a coterie of accomplices from the  brigade of  aunts.
No need to wait for for  xmas or birthday for that special dress,
No need to  build up the excitement of a trip to the circus,
No need to dream : 
They have spoiled her youth.
They have  in fact already stolen all her dreams.


11  April  2021...

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Those bells, those jubilant, jaunty clangers
Vibrating chimes dancing across meadows
Cavorting through town
Are gone.
Stolen by a rogue poet
Abetted by a teacher
Who played a recording
Of Poe’s….THE BELLS.
Around the fifth replay
I swore off poetry for life,
Rescued only by 
Tintinnabulation therapy.
I still cringe
At the sound of a doorbell.
Not Poe’s fault
My neighbor
Is always looking
To borrow something
I offered to lend him
The bell.
...

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