Slater Poems

The Outlaw Ethel Slater

...This is the story of Ethel Slater
An anarchistic agitator 
She met her end in feigned humility
At a reinforced facility

Ethel, no more golden hearted
Let me tell you how that started
And let ...

escalator got the last word

...are you smarter than a fifth grader?
I cannot even outthink a road grader.
I am not a professor or super market demonstrator.
Are you smarter than a fifth grader?

I doubt I can put cheese on a ...

The Boss Was Not

...…Dunder Mifflin
actions not mortifying
suddenly
the voice of a sportscaster
erupts
with the time of day
giving
the time of day
quarterly

…Mash
not a lover’s quarrel
but
like Burns and H...

'life In Prison For Believing and Spreading the Big Lie and Dismissing the January 6th Committee'

...Nikki Haley, Sean Spicer,
Trey Goudy, Richard Grenell,
Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, 
Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, 
Rick Santorum, Tucker Carlson,
Rupert Murdoch, Kimberly Guilfoyle,
Ed Rollins, Eri...

It's All In a Name

...This is a poem about surnames,
Surnames we could hear any day.
How their name was derived
From how they survived,
Their occupation will give them away.

ARCHER is the first one,
Shooting his a...

July the Last Hurrah

...Summer is ending; we can feel it 
But we pretend we cannot
Slater our corn-on-the-cob with butter
Cutting generous slabs of watermelon
Ignoring the Back-to-School sales flyers stacking up in our ...

Melvin Slater

...Here lies what's left of Melvin Slater,
who tried to ride an alligator.

written 11th April for Jesse's epitaph contest...

Stephanie Slater

...A Games Maker at London’s Paralympics 2012, 
Stephanie used to be a competitor able-bodied, 
In the Great Britain team, mind on the Olympics, 
Even tho’ since 11 her eyes were bad, crummier.

On...

Cyber Shag

...CYBER SHAG
             (A silly poem)

It's good to cyber shag, talk message or chat 
It's ok to flirt, it's harmless to act at times like a ****
It's good to be cool, to joke it's so nice to be hea...

Sacco and Vanzetti

...
Two men were murdered in the Massachusetts town of Braintree.
They were Frederick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli.
Both were employees of the Slater-Morrill Shoe Factory.
The culpable in...

Dark Prose

...Life is a dark cloud,
hovering over humans witch starve cows,
these guard dogs bark loud,
like a scar'd child,
it's hard to smile,
when the worlds on the market,
and were living on her carcase,...

Troubled Life

...>>>>>>>>>>It seemed trouble would find me,
                        no matter where i would go.
                        Watching television at home ,
                        or outside, shoveling s...

Who Am I?

...I don't know who i am....
and why i dream all night
or how I'm going to get out of this situation
and when will my suffering of crying for the world
or the tears for myself i feel soo greedy abou...

Nature

...Nature

sounds and waves
transfix in keys
trees refines fine lines made
faded leaving leaves fall
fragile Merc
roads leading to nowhere
fine hair
water fluidity and stupidity
stamps mad cra...

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