Short Solvency Poems

between the pages of a rural world there is always us 
clambering for attention with hands mouth and noise 
gesticulating like a proud Italian, we run for every bus 
selling goods with salesmen talk and we never poise 
nor give a chance to silence, God forbid we should...

Copyright © Pixie Dust | Year Posted 2020...

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Color, Gender, Sexual Orientation
The Machine, Corruption, Racial Discrimination
  There the spotlight shone brightly in Chicago's mayoral election
  But campaign over, winner declared -- Let's move the city in a new direction

One of pension funds solvency, of lower taxes and reduced expenses
To accomplish that requires political moxie, mending fences
  Can Mayor Lightfoot do it?  Will she? How?
  It's time to act boldly, Lori, and the time is now...

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I was solvent.
Inside the exterior.
The boy hanging from the ledge.
Cookies burning in the oven.
I was on that distant planet
With one flashing bar
Of battery left.

And in even then,
Absorbed with love.
A flailing brook
Of grammerless
Languageless
Broadside sea spray.
That one quarter left of pina colada.
A dalliance of dozens and dozens
Of dear loved ones.

As I clung there
Like a distant star 
In commune
With a multiverse of stars.
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Worlds great monuments as they stand,
every civilization builds its own.
Pyramids and towers are built so grand,
from the Wall to the Colosseum of Rome.
What drives a mans great desire,
from glass, to steel, to brick.
To build a building, higher and higher
the race seems to get ever more quick.
Unsatisfied and alone,
a want to spend and splurge,
one thinks of madness, he searches to atone.
Cemented ivy, useless solvency,
time passes with recumbency ....

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The government is wising up,
it’s taxing things hard to give up –
booze, cigarettes, and illegal stuff.
But, really, will it be enough?
The religious right now suggests
a long-term way with sure success:
Let government start taxing sin,
a practice everyone engages in;
that, effectively, should end one day
the need for further taxes, they say.
What a windfall that should be
with huge benefits immediately!
Sinners see such a tax as bankruptcy
money lovers an end to their solvency....

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