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PayBy the wayIs strictly passe!Overheard by the overworked toiler in the uptown cafeBe above the fray! Exclaimed the banker as he ordered his cheese souffle’Don’t bray!Horses eat hayTheir job is to run While others Sit on the foal’s back For playImagine their day!

Barry Bonds Witchhunt cons Sold out tickets Make owners fond Money bags Pennant flags Baseball’s back On Sports Illustrated mags Homerun chase Time to contemplate Adoring fans Now say Your a National Disgrace Commissioner too Crying the Public Boo-Hoo Used the breaking of Aaron’s record To advertise the brew No more dough Let’s dull theContinue reading “Barry Bonds”

The Sun sets out in the West Finishing up it’s Annual Quest Youthful exuberance basked In its Summer Glow Bees buzzing to and fro Young Love frolicking And playing games Like Catch-One-Catch All Acts like a Parachute Breezy remembrances For a Lifetime As you ease into the Fall

When We Took Walks It Was You Who Ran You Always Thought It Was All My Land You Took Such Joy In Everything I May Be Poor But To You I’m King You’d Risk Your Life To Protect What’s Mine Take All My Scraps and You Would Dine My Love For You Was Easy ToContinue reading “Man’s Best Friend”

They called him Chubby Though he was sleek and fast His verbal jousting Never ran out of gas He played all sports And played them extremely well You’d swear As he kept on taunting you That his head did actually swell! Dearest brother and I Would practice morning noon and nightTo the break of dawnContinue reading “They called him Chubby”

Corruption and Deception Are a flirtatious pair Public or Private Is their nom-de-guerre They dance in cohesion In all seasons Keep your eyes transfixed On the Dancing Bears! As their growth increases With each flamboyant step Up the economic stairs The Ballad of Income Inequality Plays louder! As they divy up the shares The SocialContinue reading “Bare The Dancing Bears”

Temerity is the clarity Of seeing things All the way through Ingenuity and Congruity Come along for the rendezvous With Conscientiousness And Perseverance You have gathered A most formidable crew But it is Temerity With all Sincerity That acts To form the glue Surely as the Singularity Guided universal consciousness The Observer Into view

Read a Book About A General named Custer Thought of Fighting Indians from Night  Until Muster Pompous and Ambitious He was filled with Bluster Little Did He Know In A Dream    His Men Were Seen  By Sitting Bull The Great Indian Cheif Of The Teton Sioux Attacked by Crazy Horse And Slaughtered  At TheContinue reading “General Custer”

  Do not call me a hero And expect me to believe it deep When I come back home After the horrors of War On another shore And I haven’t a place to sleep Not a house A job Nor a bite to eat My broken body And mind Reveals this as deceit So you can goContinue reading “Gratitude To The Warriors”

One quite puzzling predicament Of the U.S. Afghanistan War Why is more heroin Produced there now Than was ever before Since our battalions Arrived on their shore Uncomfortable truths Are not worthy of inspection When National Pride Covers light and reflection Truth and Honesty Are Shunned At the Officer’s Dance Floor As the Weapons MakersContinue reading “REMEMBER THE ILIAD”