state debt poem # 2 why stop at the museum, guys?there’s nothing here we really prizelop the lib’ry, what’s left of it –no one reads so why not shove itclose the parks, let geezers taketheir horseshoes to a cheaper stakethose highway rest-stops are a draincan’t tourists pee out in the rain?the zoo must cost us […]
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storypoem # 22
storypoem # 22 it’s hard to write a poem a weekand keep them what is called a poem what’s the definition of apoem anyway john knoepfle ourlocal guru talks till he runs out ofsteam sometimes just drizzles offwhat I often do is tell stories orembroider whatever it is I’mthinking about here is a bit Icame […]
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cowcount poem #1100
cowcount poem #1100 mitch you’re totally wrongwhen you say why do I need1100 cows on my computer my reply is if you need 11 cows it is good to have 1100 to choose fromwe have the singing cow thesuspicious cow the bellicose cowthe contemplative cow we havecows in parades cows reluctantto go in the barn cows […]
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mother poem #11
mother poem #11 for a long time I’ve considered myself “young-old” pretty soonI better start thinking “old-old”if I knew then about old what Inow know I’d have been moreunderstanding more helpful to my“old-old” mother—mom, I’d havecoaxed from you your untold storiesharkened to any fear behind yourwords realized when you rubbedyour wrist it was hurting but […]
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trivia poem #7
trivia poem #7 here’s a trivia question when was pizza invented well I will have to tell you for you’ll never guess it was before 753 BC I was just rereading the aeneid (in translation) and when you get to the part where they land on the shore where rome will be founded sick starved sore […]
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alps poem #1
alps poem #1 I was torn before at the news a hundred fifty lives lost in the alps especially those students and teachers returning from a happy exchange in spain I hoped no one saw it coming till the last second but with this morning’s news I am haunted haunted that one man chose to […]
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veach poem #2
veach poem #2 my good friend becky put together afamily cookbook telling us which onesnot to eat (broccoli casserole) and otherchoice opinions she also made a bookcalled when grandma was a little girllots of growing up stories of herselfher kids my kids others I recommendeveryone do this for their familiespriceless and the whole back of thevolume […]
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bovis poem #3
bovis poem #3 I know you have been on tenterhooks to hear the names of prize bulls well I won’t keep you waiting any longer Green Notch Segis Ginger was pretty good Highland Caesar Lochinvar didn’t live up to his name neither did Tidy Burke Fobes but Dorothil Colantha Lucifer now there was a bull […]
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taxseason poem #3
Farmer Letter to the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census, 1955From my father R.A. Dougan Gentlemen: Enclosed is form MC 20gfilled out to the best of my ability. Inote that there is no provision madefor recording such expense items aspayroll taxes, repairs to plant andmachinery, plant rental, insurance,property tax, depreciation, advertising,telephone, office supplies and accounting,donations, […]
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goats poem #1
goats poem #1 juniper bursts from her stall when the gate is opened leaps nimbly onto the milking bench buries her nose in oats while gillian washes her udder then pulls a stream of milk from eachswollen tit into a cup to be sure it’s okfastens on the syringe of the homemademilking machine (long […]
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swimming lessons poem #1
swimming lessons poem #1 I don’t recall how kids 3 and 4 learnedto swim I do have a found scrap from ellielabeled “courage tests” the list headedby “swim through seaweed” so she wasswimming before writing but I well recallkids 1 and 2 – with demi, age 3, we usedthe book – she knelt on […]
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newyears poem #11
newyears poem #11 you may have stacks of moldering dishes piles ofdisheveled clutter a hamper of odorous garments a carfull of indescribable litter snow to shovel letters to tendbills demanding their duebut when someone reachesout to you in friendship or in need you turn your backon all the gottas oughtas hafftas and take that […]
