Short Handlers Poems

Joseph Biden, President,
Current White House resident.
His faculties are in decline,
But his handlers say he's doing fine....

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Christmas finds reindeer landing on rooftops

Santa’s kindly added some extra stops

     His sleigh filled with travelers

     Scared of TSA handlers

Scoff as coal through government chimneys drops



*For Francine’s Christmas contest...

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Marked 'Fragile, Handle with Care'
    a preemie wrapped in tender affection
  Tiny fingers, tiny toes; a wisp of a nose
    in the midst of her pale pink complexion

  Gentle and delicate her handlers will be
    knowing one slip can be fatal
  Should not every delivery be treated this way
      ~ pre, neo and post-natal...

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Eskimo Ellie loves training her sled dogs
they are her comfort, her pack.
they keep her warm at night, and appreciate her stories
She lets them sleep inside the igloo, but keeps this a secret
the other dog handlers would not understand
they might think she is soft and silly
her dogs are her family,
where else would she make them sleep?...

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“Do you ever,” she asked,
“write a poem 'bout someone that
you wouldn't show 'em?”

I had to think on that one.

“Not really,” I finally answered.
Her gaze begged for more.

“My poetry's true
while the venom I spew
tends towards the prosaic
and souls sympathetic
to my in-the-moment
human condition.

I'm lucky like that,
havin' snake handlers in my life.”

“When's the last time you danced
on a rainbow?” she asked....

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A giant panda eats leaves and shoots,
several handlers and  keepers
fall to a spray of AK-47 bullets.

"Why?"
moans an elderly Chinese lady,
blood oozing from her torn body -
she had nursed him from a cub.

In a less than perfect Mandarin,
the animal replied:

"Madam, humans do not understand
how to bear an unbearable love.

Being insufferably cute
the matter has always been
a black and white issue for us.

We love to shoots first,
then we leaves."
...

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