Short Deducting Poems

Emergence dying

Emerging crying feeding moving lying
Growing crying feeding crawling
Seeing hearing crying feeding trying
Walking talking falling crying trying
Learning reading writing playing trying
Learning thinking writing playing trying
Planning learning finding deducting trying
Scheming planning learning reasoning trying
Realising planning learning earning festering
Contriving trying earning loving yearning
Parenting working living doing dying...

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Oh yes indeed,
 how entitled I am
 to receive Social Security and Medicare;
of course for fifty odd years
 governement saw no problem deducting
 the coverage it now wants to cut;
and the senate and congress still have
 their own entitlement trusts,
 but let's build a wall at any cost
and provide rich and corporation tax cuts
 claiming the economy is robust
 while the poor and middle class are lost.

Republican majorities,
Let me know how it works out....

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“Tom, You Shouldn’t Be Here”
New Years Day 2017
Miracle Man
10/2/2024

At birth God assigned me
an unknown expiration date.
God has seen fit to bless me
with my date coming late.

But an inaudible clock is busy
deducting from my earthly time.
Subtracting each earthly second
God has allotted for my lifetime.

I’ve faced serious hurdles
that Doctors said were my end.
But only God knows the reason
He chose my time to extend.



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