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What words can be written for a kid that’s been bitten by a cause that’s no cause at all for a kid in his prime that’s got hooked on a line like a fish that’s just begging to fall they give him a gun shiny boots bayonet lots of bullets big knife and a song then they teack him to kill to surrender his will and the kid’s not a kid very long soon he kills for the thrill his eyes give you the chill when he sings of the glories of war while the rich stay at home their mouth bubbling foam as the billions roll into their store they sell bullets and bombs big and small firearms to the kids defending their creed and the kids never know as they try to stay low that the creed they’ve defending is greed.
Ross Tarantino Jack of all trades, master of a few |
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Baffling Triolet
Instructions for a triolet French for little trio be concise in what you say instructions for a triolet maintain two rhyme; do not stray eight lines, refrained, with metered flow instructions for a triolet French for little trio
I wonder why a triolet is French for little three I looked it up; it doesn’t isn’t called an octany eight lines per stanza; no, not three I wonder why a triolet is French for little three
J R Turek Author of short stories and novels. Moderator of the Farmingdale Writing Group, member of the L.I. Literary Guild
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SUGAR MOUNTAIN the Bronx in October is a steep grove brewing redcrested woodpeckers. i know a man who lives there in an apartment made of brick. his door is very near a yellow sycamore. when he looks in any direction he sees a great forest of leaves. sometimes the wind picks at his collar. sometimes the river lights up his hair. over his left shoulder he carries a small canvas mail pouch which came all the way from the civil war. sometimes when it is morning and it is autumn and he is silver and alone and so very sad he reaches into his medicine cabinet and he pulls out sugar mountain.
George Wallace Former Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, many books published, many publishing credits, member of LIPC |
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Anthropomorphism
“Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it to not have any at all?”
Voltaire
Or why does Marie Rache cut up carrots, apples- bit-sized pieces, “treats” for her Morgan? She takes the spotted apples for herself and Commander has the freshest fruit. Behaviorists assert the animal does not know, does not appreciate. If you assert your animal does know, does appreciate, behaviorists charge you with “committing anthropomorphism.” Marie is incessantly “committing anthropomorphism.” Why doesn’t she ride Commander more? Instead she gives an hour brushing her Morgan. He stand untied, no halter. She fills the water trough, cleans the stable. She watches him, chestnut with white blaze on his face, graze the pasture. She holds out her hand, he trots over, nudges his warm nose in her palm.
Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr. Retired teacher, environmental activist, poetry workshop leader at Taproot and continuing education, programming volunteer at Cedarmere
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