Short Square Foot Poems

Square feet are the hit of the day.
     Everyone measures the very same way.
     Each square inch tacks itself on,
     To a square to which only feet belong.
      How many inches in a square foot?
     As many squares as you would care to put!...

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A heaving, grieving mass of humanity 
All afflicted with the same insanity 
To cross the bridge in Brooklyn Heights 
For one square foot they impetuously fight 
What has caused this hopeless plight? 

Love of money and dishonest gain 
Is the root of their discontented disdain 
These days, without further detection, 
Are the last of imperfection. 

(Written when NYC had a transit strike in 1979?)...

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