Short Respectability Poems

Price for respectability
never means to spend money like water

While the wife of a poor country’s president
was outside at a shop that sells luxury items,
the shop window broke and cut her purse
and tons of bloody dollars slide out like a rocket...

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neglected
        once lamented
now graffiti
          scrawled:
faded respectability
of
   yesteryear and
outdated
            taste:
now.  
     litter-strewn,
dusty
        cold & musty
sepia like
in the late
       Autumn 
                   sun...

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EARLY MASS IN ORDINARY TIME

Gray helmet hair, carefully 
Curled, dangling earrings, 
Designer suit, ear of salamander, 
Eye of newt.  White haired 
Soulmate, shoulders strong,  
More is More, importance seen 
In every pore: Respectability 
highly prized, but my Sunday 
Plea to The Powers That Be: 
Deliver Me from Respectable, 
     so unacceptable....

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Let is flow like runny honey your sweet creativity,
                 Let is shine all sublime your original artistry.
        For you have your place with such grace and respectability,
        Do your thing so it may bring you peace and sheer stability.









~ For 'Liberum Divisa 5 Poetry Contest', Sponsor: Gregory R Barden~
  Taken from 'Inspiration for writers'...

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A brave believing victim of the Shoah said, 'God slept'.

                       Is it not true that God and Humanity were allies as the 

                       United Nations Forces defeating Fascism - for ever?


                       
                       Only the other day out of respectability I heard an anti-

                       Semitic remark. Alas, this old evil is not yet dead and buried....

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