Short Cubbies Poems

A seven-game world series
Chicago, down three to one
Given up on my cubbies

Seemed an improbable feat
But they refused a defeat
Cubs did what cubs had to do
Cubs in seven, four to three

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her mean-spiritedness detonates
unsmiling green eyes that narrow
and expose the crannies and
cubbies of her harsh mouth
amplifying sounds
of rage in her
honey tones,
sickly
sweet...

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Ah, dear Mrs. Nancy Pelosi,
Trying her best, with feckless,
Congressional cubbies.
Doing their best to make her
life anything but rosy.

Pick up that gavel and swat 
their obnoxious butts off!
Don't let them drag you and
your party through their dumb,
showhorse stuff!

Ostracize and censure them,
right now!
Before they blow up the DNC.
And worse..the entire country!
Ker-Pow!


July 12, 2019
2pm PST...

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The rubber rain boots occupy
The cubbies, standing tall,
With ladybugs or butterflies
Or Superman on call.

The grown-up wellies line up, too,
In boring black or green.
I guess there's not a market for
A product in-between.

I haven't owned such rubber boots
To help my feet stay dry 
Since I was just a child
And today I realized why...

'Cause I'd prefer mine colorful
And sadly, I surmise 
They don't make ladybug-style boots
To fit my grown-up size....

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The shoes are stashed in cubbies,
The jackets hung on hooks.
The kids are having quite a blast -
At least that's how it looks.

The trampoline is busy
As toddlers bounce and jump
While rubber bumpers ring the gym
So no one gets a bump.

There's music from the speakers,
A breeze from all the fans
And balance beams, all with a part
In Friday morning's plans.

When caring for the grandkids, 
I think of days gone by 
When I would take their father
To the same class at the "Y."...

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