Short Abstemious Poems

In Russia do not drink is infraction
if not vodka it causes rejection
whoever is abstemious is screwed
 must live cloistered and booed...

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Abstemious!
Be cooking.
Don’t eat from gastronomic hotels.
Insist jambalaya.
Kindly live maximally nutritious, opt pawpaw.
Quench.
Revitalize strength to undertake vital works XL,
Yields;  zeal....

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After I graduated as teacher: East London High
Because I boarded at an ashram in Durban
Check of my first salary, went to it as thanks

NOTE: The Swami - "not good in Christ terms" - but the most abstemious & disciplined man I knew, blessed my gratitude. His name, Swami Sahajananda, or formerly Srinivas Naidoo of Estcourt, said I would always have Grace. I have never gone hungry, or very cold, 42 years on....

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The Ending
 
This old tramp ship
Rusty and tired
Her engine often stopped
It was a struggle 
To start it again
The sun rejected
This ship sailed
In a fog of despair
The crew were 
Residue
Of harbour debris
For the officer the last 
Chance Saloon 
Misfits who struggled
To stay abstemious
Some failed
Disappeared 
In the night.
Off the coast of Peru
She died 
Sank slowly 
Beneath the ocean
With her 
Tax avoidance
Flag flying...

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If I die

There comes a time
Time of death
No escape
But
If I die
Let it not be of AIDS

I knew i lived a lie
Of many friends
Whom i nicknamed friends
But were walkers
Professional sex addicts
Sex ametuers
But
If i die
Let it not be of AIDS

Of who i was
Of whom i became
And of what i leave
Let it be hailed
Of how abstemious i lived
Of how cautious i loved
Of how irrational i smiled
To them
But 
If i die
Let it not be of AIDS...

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At a night in this autumn,
I sat abstemious under a pine
A place where usually belong to me in this university

When my arms and legs felt as numb as electric shocks
I could not help going back to my little office

Under the lamp
I saw many pimples in my arms and legs!
Clearly that they were made by the unnamed mosquitoes!

Oh, those poor little mosquitoes
They were left lonely in the Beijing campus
For such a long summer vacation
They must be hungry extremely!...

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