Short Passable Poems

inextinguishable
is your appetency
for what you suspire

you feed on this drug
to make life passable
but by the same line
that educes endurance
it will transport
inevitable death


Dec 10. 2019
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they gave it more than a passable go
but my confidence and self-preservation are powerful allies
bullying did not dent
name-calling did not crucify
Flexibility and tenacity are my middle names
I fly into the rafters and caw at my tormenters
Who are vastly disappointed
they could not break me....

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don...nulled as a child
watched...copying
the three stooges...stage play

as a passable...dictionary of
the-sour-ass-ed terms...to communicate
his feelings as...that young child

that got his asssss.......a $100million way to see
what he wanted to see...his assssss.....
the-trump card...and if you don't

he will ...kiss it


stan sand...

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WHAT  DO  THESE  BIRDS  KNOW ?

Darkest day cold morning
Birds a-twitter in the bare tree
Yesterday they were silent at dawning
What do they see that I don’t  see?

Weather is going to have less bite?
Cats have become more tractable?
Just glad to have survived the cold night,
Hoping that today will be passable?

Maybe they know that the days 
Have reached their nadir  and 
It’s  all uphill from now on? I gaze
At the tree and  try to understand....

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