These days, the most sought out advanced degree
In Extreme Higher Education is in Plagiarism.
A student can also minor in Overt Racism,
Sexism, Misogyny, Stupidity, and Bigotry.
Help wanted signs will be posted in January,
On every freaking corners in Washington D.C.;
Muslims, Mexicans, Syrians and minorities'
Applications will not be accepted. Senior citizens
Can apply unless they voted in the last two elections.
The reason for the change in rules and policies
Is to NOT 'Make America Great Again'.
Only Europeans and Aryans can apply for political asylum.
The Statue of Liberty will be returned to Marine Le Pen.
More pamphlets will be distributed at the next symposium.
Copyright © November 12,2016 Logerie Hébert, All Rights Reserved
Hebert Logerie is the author of several collections of poetry.
Wonder bread. Really? I do not think so.
Wonder why. But please do not guess, and they will lie any way.
Wonder how many. No idea as I despise all aspects of math.
Wondering your life away? Wonder no more.
Wondering is good for cats. Maybe not so terrific for humans.
When people say "Try to find out because I am wondering,"
I know I am being set up, for why would they not do the asking?
Wonderment. Love this one. Wonderful.Just three extra letters,
but it makes the word 'wonder' so much more than before.
I wonder why this word has to be elongated to be wonderful to me?
Wonder itself does not do anything for me,
Frankly always takes me right back to Wonder Bread.
My children's favorite bread, which is weird to me as I have
in wonderment wondered why in the world they think it is so
wonderful. I never did.
A Weirdness not in dreams
brushes against my waking mind,
impressions delineated not by words,
cloaked not in meaning accessible
to conscious thought,
but lurking in a penumbra,
neither darkness nor light.
I call it the Weirdness,
for what other name can it claim?
It's a thought that is not,
an idea that is not,
a mere suggestion of something,
a smudge against my brain.
What? You have never experienced this,
like a kiss
blown but not caught,
like a smile
smiled but not seen?
Am I the only one?
In an instant it's gone
and, try as I may to find
a word, a thought, an idea
to stick as a label to my Weirdness,
I cannot: what I thought were words
were nothing of the kind,
just the mind making believable
the transient ghost of a thought,
a thought now naught.
People glower; horns get louder -
I wonder why a drive so dour
was ever termed rush hour.
.
Dollars followed by point 99
Are dollars with one more assigned.
Retailers think shoppers math blind.
Business phones in America evolved
With English as option, not default,
Like a blond joke saw phones solved.
In the USA, I cannot afford to die
So place my body atop funeral rates
Until they pass sky for heaven-high.
Halloween is marketed in July,
Followed by Christmas in August –
Greed's gone awry, I won't comply.
Medical care doesn’t care at all,
Should be re-termed medical gall
As many are ill from medical appall.
The law fits fine if one is rich,
Others needing a justice hit
Need a thief’s help to pay for it.
Let me end my sad word hurl
As born in my dramatic world:
Hyperbole debris, reality decreed.
This mind holds rage,
Collecting thoughts,
With keebler elves,
Stealing my cookies.
They sprinkle there chocolate,
Turds in my eyes,
Yet I try to tell them,
This milk is spoilt.
Baking on there pan,
The flower burns so cold,
Smoke turning to leaves,
That branch among the trees.
In autumns' wind,
Spring resembles fall,
There embers staying open,
Rushing there stormy dream.
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