Too soon green

The sound of green is soft like moss
and leaves on water
and sunny breeze
or misty rain
or eyelashes
and smiles.
With green we play wandering violins
and butterflies Continue reading

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Act

Our minister prime has a hell of a time
convincing the world he is human
he can sit in his flannels and play the piano
but the guy is sure no Margaret Truman.

And just what the word is on Helena Guergis
that caused him to call in the Mounties
the goods in the land is it’s just slight of hand
designed to Continue reading

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Being Tiger

Golf is a game of rules.
Just as the psychopaths
we sometimes recruit to run our armies
must learn to behave as gentlemen,
so the golfer is presumed
to have the same self-control.
Neither leader should Continue reading

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