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The poet doesn’t get it

He comes upon me halfway between dark and light and stirs the stew bringing up tasty morsels potato onion carrot celery and rotten stinking beef I can’t understand the putrefaction; I cook with only the finest roots and rotting stinking … Continue reading

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mute

[A casual reading of this piece may suggest that it is politically incorrect; in fact, it is, but not in the way it may at first appear to be. Each stanza is supposed to have four lines, but some of … Continue reading

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lost clock alert

Somebody misplaced the Doomsday Clock. Last seen on a movie screen or was it a curved TV screen? anyway, last seen ticking away in black and white and many shades of gray during the Eisenhower administration If it was made … Continue reading

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