This is what happens when I think of a great line or two while I am out and about, but it takes me too long to get home and/or I do other stuff in the meantime…
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Outlier (a poem)
Monday morning…
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Band names won’t fly under these circumstances (a poem)
Ah, the news…
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22:17 (a poem)
I turned off the TV a few minutes after ten to go to sleep. A few minutes later, I looked at the clock…
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One thousand, four hundred sixty days to go (a poem)
I missed the inauguration. Apparently, there was talk of carnage…
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Redemption poem
Not terribly elegant, but the insight is true—I realized it this afternoon while at Third Place Books…
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Some say in two days the world will come to an end (a poem)
A huge change is coming. Life goes on…
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What is a poem? (a poem)
A writer—especially when that writer is a poet—is often filled with doubt…
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That tribal celebration that always comes before the big battle scene (a poem)
I spent a good chunk of the afternoon trying to write one of those Important Statement poems that appear every once in a while. It was not working, however, coming across at various points as either too earnest, too forced, or both. So I am posting this more honest poem instead, which I wrote while watching Mom and Dad Save the World…
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A resistance poem
Lots of Writers Resist events happening today. What follows is as close as I get to writing a poem on the topic of resistance. I think it is safe to say that I have a slightly different take on the subject…
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