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 Not the news the way you know it, but a jaundiced view, through the eyes of a poet . . .                                                           Dan Speers, Citizen Poet 


 

                    

 Grandfather's face spoke history,

  

 Grandmother's portrayed mystery. 

 

 

       Palin writes her notes on her hands,

       Should wipe her thoughts before she stands.

  

 

 

 
          Daniel E. Speers is the author of all poetry on this site. Other than short quotes for reviews, permission and/or licensing is required for use. Website and all contents Copyright 2009-2010 by Daniel E. Speers

  

          One tolerates atrocities,

          By believing absurdities.

 

          Even today's majority,

          Was yesterday's minority.

 

Cowardly politicians hide

Behind any populist tide.

Finger to the wind does abide

Whom they see as the winning side.

 

Walking tall into the den,

    Went the President

Bearded the lions who sought to vent,

    And set a precedent.

 

Barack Obama and Scott Brown have roots,

In Haverhill, MA, where with many offshoots

From Archie to Macy's to poets and boots.

http://www.newenglandancestors.org


 

       Sad the Haitian remedy,

       Lies solely in catastrophe.

 

FOX ignores the Haitian earthquake;

Burying lives, grave fortunes make.

 

--FOX News scum refused to run Hope for Haiti Now,

instead airing the lies of O'Relly and Hannity.

 

For Sale Cheap: Supreme Court corpse

No Soul. That sold to U.S corps.

--Supreme Court lifts political campaign limits for corporations.


 

 Scott Brown is a family values man

Honors his daughters as only Lot can.

 

--Offers daughters as virgins to the mob: Genesis 19:8

 

Scott Brown is nude for all to see

RepubliCon hypocrisy.

  

Scott Brown in a nude centerfold in Cosmopolitan June 1882; Imagine the RepubliCon outrage if a woman candidate posed nude. http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrity/news/scott-brown-nude-in-cosmo


Time to Shun this Hateful Man 

 

Lush Lamebrain complains that Haitian aid is wasted,

It's Obama's "spread-the-wealth" plot he lambasted,

Ignoring a country torn and devestated,

As we should ignore him, his words and his hatred.

 

--Rush "Lush Lamebrain" Limbaugh tells his Doo-doo heads not to donate

aid to Haitians on the grounds that it is Liberal plot to redistribute wealth.


 

I hate to say I told you so

But what they show they really show

X-Scanners

  

Airport scanners show all just fine,     

Give new meaning to "butt in line."

 

  Skip underwear with underwire,

  Unless a hand pat you desire.  

 

 You may as well grin and bare it,      

 Your X-scan is going to share it.

 

   Male or female, X-scans will out

  Even those with the slightest doubt.

 

        X-scanners show us what you've got,     

       As well as what that you have not.

  

   The latest body scan fashion: 

 Are your bra and panties matching?

 

       Profiles reveal the inner you.

       Scanners display the under you.

 

   A full body scan is what they want done?

 Might fly naked; it's safer and more fun.

 

       X-scans show patriotic hue,     

       Red butt, white groin and p-p blue.

 

 

 

The Further Adventures

of the Wasilla Hillbillies

 

Sarah laid bare . . .  Todd barely keeps his ego fed . . .

Levi can't keep his Levis on . . . Facebook face off . . .

Up from the town came a bubbling crude

Hillbillies, that is.


 Sarah Palin makes

      John McCain boner,

Says she'll campaign . . .

   in North and South

   Arizona.


 

        Those who want freedom of speech ought 

        To first attempt freedom of thought.

 

 

GLEN BECK's PAGE

 

Jon Stewart's Take on Taking Back Beck

 

 

What the Dreck? Glen Beck Fires Back

As You Might Suspect, He's on the Attack

 

Believe It or Not!! Glenn Beck Responds -- and you won't believe what this nut case had to say about Dan's poems. If you liked Jon Stewart, you'll love this page:

 

 

 

Ad sales down, Glen Beck in arrears;

This explains where his face appears.

 

You've heard him cry, how he exhorts,

It comes from where he pulls reports.

His magic underwear distorts

Every word Glen Beck reports.

             Glen Beck, the Grinch, says we must kill

             Medicare. --Bye, bye, dealth panel.

 

FAUX News host and future Mormon God Glen Beck on his radio program

this week called Medicare a "government-run health care plan"  and

demanded that it be abolished.                  090912


 

Rush Limbaugh's Rant

Lush Lamebrain claims

     "blind hatred" got him banned.

That the hatred was his,

     he didn't understand.

Letterman Exposed

What Letterman was dipping in

Explains at last Dave's dippy grin.

Chatty Joe Biden

Biden oft has nothing to say

But then he says it anyway.

 

Joe Wilson's raison d'etre

"I won't be muzzled,"  Wilson swore,

He's right, of course. Muzzles are for

             --the other end of the horse. 

 This is the epigram I sent to the South Carolina newspaper, The State. Wilson has a video on his web site vowing not to apologize. He is a hero to the Lush Lamebrain Doo-Doo Heads'

Joe Wilson's real chicanery

Lies in his fake sincerity.

 Joe was moved to tears at a news conference upon his return to South Carolina. Oddly, he blamed his downfall on ACORN. That, of course, is nuts.

 

     Sandford and Wilson both got ripped

     When pants and lips these fools unzipped.

 

The foibles of these South Carolina politicians would be truly funny but for the fact that their state ranks so far behind in health care for women, children, and the poor of all races.

Hour after hour, twelve people die.

Health insurance they could not buy.

The land of the free ain't is why.

--Statistic based on a Harvard Research Study  


Franken Wins. Bill-O Loses.

 

Everytime we hear the name

Of Bill-O, Bill O'Reilly,

We will forever link his name

To Franken's Stuart Smiley.

 

See it all at:

 

Minnesota Madness


Lines I Couldn't Resist:

 

     Republicans face the specter

    Of losing face by losing Specter.

"If you get sick, you best die quick."

This, Grayson claims, is the Cons' shtick.

"If you get sick, you need to die."

Lines I Did Resist:

   Sen. John Kyl of Arizona

  Got in bed with Rep. John Boehner.

  The Stimulous Plan made them pout

  So they pulled a Palin and pulled out.

 --of politics and bedfellows


   Listening to many Republicans trying to insert the "ic" factor in describing the Democratic Party, I have to wonder that they don't seem to understand that most of literate America comes down strong on the correct usage of Democratic as an adjective and that by trying to intend a slur actually is more indicative of their own ignorance:

When you say "Democrat Party"

Intead of "Democratic,"

We know you're either ignorant

Or a right-wing fanatic.


 

  Wacky News   

 

The Honolulu City Council is considering a $500 fine or six months in jail for bus riders who have offensive odors.

What is it so bad that people do

To stink up buses in Honolulu?

If not the motor, must be the voter

Paying the new fine for body odor.

 


Security guards hired through Wackenhut Services, a company founded by Dick Nixon's old pal, George, have been holding lewd parties with hookers and booze.

Who are these manic, wacky nuts

Guarding our Afghan embassy?

Oh, I see. They're all Wackenhuts

--Florida-type security

 RESEARCH ITEM: Chester County, PA, is the home of the American

Mushroom Institute--and the Chester County Republican Party, which

boasts of native son's Joseph Lewis' print shop. It produced the first

campaign biography of candidate and future President Abraham Lincoln.

 


Being a liberal, you see,

I understand all that can be

'Cept those who don't understand me.

 

           Democracy allows, for unity,

           Ignorance equal opportunity.

 


 

     To show you are strong,

          bring your faults to light

    'Cause  you're always wrong,

           if you're always right.

 


The Puritans. The Taliban.

Can you explain morals in

Government to me again?


To win the race, you must stand fast

To the maxim: You must run fast.


He came in an empty sedan

Said things no one could understand

Managed to shake every hand

Took from our pockets all but sand

Left promising to come again

Some said it was a preacher man

Or at the least, a magician.

But given the apparition

I suspect a politician,

Or else, a mortician.

 


       These Teabaggers who chose their name

       Should hang their heads and bags in shame.

 

Is 'Teabagger' an epithet? -- Jay Nordlinger of

National Review Online, argues in an op-ed entitled

 "Rise of an Epithet," that the name may be

detrimental to the cause.

 


            Lieberman is no friend of man,

            He is the party of one

            The sole Party of Liberman.

 

              Joe Lieberman, party floater, 

              Loves donors more than the voter.


 

Why Can't These Fools Keep Their Mouth's Shut?

 

 

      Pat Robertson spews a venom,     

      Himself, the demented demon.

 

         Lush Lamebrain and his Doo-doo heads

     Grow their own hate just like inbreds.

 

-On the day after the earthquake in Haiti.

 


Spicy Quips from the Garden Sage:

 

    Distrust leaders who build trust for themselves

    By making voters distrust someone else.

 

      Punxsutawney Phil does go on

      Say's, NO, winter will not be gone!

     That rat must be RepubliCon.

 

Yesterday's Epigrams:

 

    All I know for a certainty,

    Is I'm one possibility.

 


Tiger's Wood

 

CALL IT COINCIDENCE, CALL IT FATE BUT THE KINDLE EDITION OF MY NEWEST BOOK WAS PUBLISHED ON DECEMBER 30, TIGER WOOD'S BIRTHDAY.

 

Citizen Poet's Take on . . .

 

Tiger Woods: Ten Ways to Play the Lie

 

  www.essential10.com/node/109

 

 

It's rich with humor, with lots of fun and inside information on golf and the men who knock little balls around. Even if you don't play golf, you'll read this book to find out why men cheat.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

 

      The Tiger Woods gossip status:

      The Pros now claiming hiatus.

 

       Tiger Woods had no parrot it is true,

        But now they say he had a Cockatoo.

-On news that TW may be bisexual.

 

        Wow, here comes Tiger Woods again,

        But with a man, a Mulligan.

 

        Is Tiger Woods a sex addict

        Or is this a buy/bi conflict?

 

        "Feel" is Tiger's secret to golf

        But his is done with his clothes off.

    

         For Tiger Woods, a mistress

         Is what seems to be a Miss,

         Between him and his mattress.

 

        They say Tiger Woods played a round,

        A nineteenth hole was what he found.

 

        On Tiger Woods we can rely,

        Even Pros can have a bad lie.

 

        Tigers Woods has played in foursomes,

        Five-, six- and wow, a lot moresomes.

 

Tiger Woods, famed for his hits and misses,

We know the hits that came from his Mrs.,

But the count on misses still amasses.

        

     Jamie's pix show Tiger Woods would

     What they show is Tiger Woods' wood.

Jamie Junger, one of Tiger Woods' mistresses, claims she

took photos of Tiger passed out naked on her couch.

She says affair lasted two years. She is 26.


Past Daily Epigrams:

 

    It is the small disappointments,

    That fuel the biggest arguments.

 

Ask yourself when chatting face to face,

Would you tell the truth in their place?

 

    That which causes ecstasy,

    Instead of pain is quantity.

 

     What my dog adds in his daily caper,

     Is more of the same to the newspaper.

 

To improve the world and all that's in it,

 Start with yourself before you begin it.

 

     Mediocrity meets the test

     Of always being at its best.

 

The bone of contention one hears about

Lies between the quarrelers' ears no doubt..

 

Populations are the most dense

From the neck up, some of us sense.

 

Joint checking is a husband-wife composite.

She writes the checks, I make the deposits.

-- from Rattle of the Sexes  by Dan Speers

 

     Any way to set an alarm,

     For when I'm ready for the morn?

 

     Staying poor is an easy niche,

     Just live your life as if you're rich.

 

     As every new parent is learning still,

     The stork's a bird with a very big bill.

 

 When leaders fall, don't pause to scoff;

 Take up where the footprints leave off.

 

We should not overlook the irony

That politicians and shows on TV

Are both selected by Democracy.  

--Did someone say, "Majority rules?" 

Or, "The lowest common denominator is 'fools.'"

 

The mind that is the most easily bought

Is that which mistakes opinion for thought.

 

Living within a roman à clef ,

The purpose of life reads as life itself.

 

One should not display all one owns;

It's trees filled with fruit that draws stones.

 --Based on a French proverb

 

One must work hard to overcome duress;

Even harder to overcome success.

 

        It's easy to say what you think;

        Just open your mouth, insert drink.

  

       Ignorance is not half the bliss

       Ignoring the ignorant is.

 

Nothing in the world is entirely strange,

Given what time and whiskey can arrange.

 

        Except for a tiny bit of ourselves,

       The universe is everything else.

 

       To a naturist, nudity

       Is seeing less the more you see.

 

       By this short dash our lives are known,

       Found between dates on a tombstone.

 

       Here's a fun fact that's often omitted,

       Life itself is sexually transmitted.

      

       Your eyes reflect your inner core,

       But your mouth reveals even more.

 

       Rose bouquets are always applauded,

       If the prick with them can be avoided.

 -- from Rattle of the Sexes by Dan Speers

 

Whenever a man says he needs some space,

Chances are, it's at someone else's place.

  

      I get drunk after just one drink,

      It's the eleventh one, I think.

 

      Dancing is imitating vertically,

      What is much more fun horizontally.

 

      Making enemies is a simple thing.

      Express an opinion -- on anything.

 

      All we need for ignorance to survive,

      Is to simply keep traditions alive.

 

I am certain my cats think and reason,

They think nothing of committing treason.

 

      I think birthdays, if you please,

      Should leave aging to wine and cheese.

 

      Clothing does not a nudist scare,

      Next to nothing is all they wear.

 

      Bisexuals have no need to be shy,

      They like girls as much as the next guy.

 

     It's easy for men their age to admit,

     What's really hard is for men to act it.

 

      No harm to your reputation is done,

      Without it's you who provides the weapon.

 

      Through thick and thin, our marriage vow.

      Backwards, it's been: Thin, then. Thick, now.

 

      Those who rely on abstinence,

      Are often parents nine months hence.

 

      No matter what ten-week diet I choose,

      Ten weeks is about all I ever lose.    

 

      Keeping up pretenses is such a bore,

      It doesn't seem natural anymore.

 

        Fast food is what defines our  fate,

        Life is now hurry up and weight.   

      

Why are those pleasures most pleasurable

Always those pleasures most regrettable?

 

Self-criticism just will never do --

Your friends do it so much better than you.

 

       Folks are saying I look so young.

       Damn. When older did I become?

 

       Celebrated a birthday Wilde

       And though beguyled, no charges filed.

--on Oscar Wilde's birthday.

 

 

 


Please don't mention my name

DREADICATIONS 

Speers' points aimed

at the truly weird

 

           The latest FOX News statistic:

           Twelve out of ten Liberal picks

           Will turn nation Communistic.

           Other four are Gay sadistic.

After FOX News' Fuzzy Math

 

 

             FOX lies are well documented

            What ails FOX is Ailes demented.

 --Sharpened Speers

Fueled by FOX  - Fooled by FOX

 


Zany Liz Cheney

Launches "Keep America Safe"

Fighting Mad - Defends Dad

Weighing Run for President

 

                       Loopy Liz and old Dithering Dick.

                       One a pinhead, the other a prick.

 

                       Cheney says torture probe unfair,

                       Perhaps we stick the probe elsewhere.

~~~~~

Meghan McCain

Straight-Talking Dad Has Out-Spoken Daughter

Calls Joe-the-Plumber a DumbAss

Taunts Malkin, Coulter and Ingraham

    


 

Gov. Sanford's Lament

 

NEWS ITEM - May 25, 2009 - Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina admitted an affair with a Latin lover from Argentina. The governor had originally clalimed to be hiking the Appalachian Trail, including on a Sunday that happened to be Nude Hiking Day. The press conference went something like this . . .

 

 Don't Cry for Me, Appalachia

 

        Sandford said God will make him whole

        Though he put himself in the hole.


 

Conspiring John -  Sen. John Ensign carried on an affair with a staffer who was married to another staffer, and who was the mother of another staffer, and attempted to cover up his daliance by having his supporters hire the cuckold.

 

     I'm a Hamptons' fan, the senator said,

     Some work on my staff, and some I embed.

 


Poetry Archives

 

September School Dust-Up

 

It is clear that whatever the Presdient prosposes, the right wing, tinfoil wearing politicians, pundits, and ditto-headed sheep willl oppose. These people are too myoptic to understand how they

are marginalizing themselves and their party.

Parents may say the President

Has classroom dogma to present,

But it's not about what children hear,

It's his skin color that they fear.

 

For those who do not undestand the reference in the poem below, see USSR, May Day.  It's code for something red.

Obama gave his speech today.

We'll see the coup come next May Day.

An August Vacation

While Obama takes vacation

From tasks that tax acuity,

His foes bestow dedication

To tasks that tax vacuity. 

An August Tribute

A bar so high, another door. 

Confirmation. Affirmation. 

Welcome, Sonia Sotomayor.

                                             --Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in

                                                as 111th Supreme Court justice

                                                in the nation's history Aug. 9.

 

 July's Polical Pivot

 

WASHINGTON-It took almost eight months from election day, but theMinnesota Supreme Court ordered Al Franken certified as the state's next US senator. He took office after July 4 and in time to participate in the hearings and approval of Sonia Sotomayor as the 111th Supreme Court justice.

 

 

June's Poem of the Month

      The Spiral Staircase 

 

May's Poem of the Month

      Begin Again the Same Again

 

April's Poem of the Month

 

 It's so good, we're holding it over: A new federal tax imposed April 1 increased the price of cigarettes dramatically and reminded me of my own battles with tobacco before I was able to break the habit a number of years ago. This poem is my story:

  

     The Last Cigarette

 

 

It Was in the News

April Highlights

 

April 1: Budget, Smudgit, Fudgit

             April Fool's Day

             Have They No Cents?

  

April 2: Michelle Meets the Queen

 

Michelle Meets the Queen

    A transient moment by history unseen,

       Two women of stature, enduring years between,

       One, once a commoner, the other a queen

       Investing a moment with perpetual grace

     A hug from a gesture, a ritual new face

       Transcendent of boundary, ascendant of race

     A commoner, a queen, an uncommon embrace.

 

April 7: Obama at the Front 

 


 

Requiem for a Star

 

In nature's perfect universe

Parallel lines remain discrete,

Yet Michael Jackson found the verse

Where black and white could long last meet.

 "Requiem for a Start" published 2009 at MJFC,

Michael Jackson Fan Club, www.mjfanclub.net


   

    

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BREAKING NEWS!!

Dan revealed the underwear bomb in his book, Master Spies Die Laughing, page 55.

 

The NSA has a copy of my book. Why the hell didn't they read it?

 

Everything is in the book--the liquid trigger, the detonator, the PETN. Had the authorities listened to me, they might have prevented the attempted Christmas Day bombing.

 

Read It for Yourself!

But the panty bomb is only the tip of what's really undercover.

Get the book. Read it and take heed.

Dan's latest book reveals tomorrow's news today.

 

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From Cutting Satire

to Flights of Fancy

Sharpened 

Speers 

 a new kind of poetry

Antonyms

and

Apigrams 

 

Why do some folks take such joy

In always seeking to annoy?

a tribute to Ted Kennedy . . . 
       The Pride of Massachusetts      
--a poem about this family, this tribe,
this pride of lions . . .  and 


Boxes Lie Waiting

 

Dan's mystery "Boxes Lie Waiting" cited by Amazon.com, Publishers Weekly and Penquin Groups USA in Amazon.com's Breakthrought Novel contest. Learn all about the citation, discover the bizarre coincidence of the discovery of a real body exactly where Dan said it would be found, read the free excerpt HERE and sign up for free notification of publication date.

 

  In a bizarre coincidence, on the same day the local newspaper ran a story about Boxes Lie Waitng, which begins with the discovery of a body at Winnekenni Castle, the unbelievable happened. Police discover a body at Winnekenni Castle. And Dan gets a call. 


 

Get Your Copy Now! 

 

Sunday at Buttonwoods

 

Every other Sunday, a regional author is invited for a reading and book signing at the Buttonwoods Museum in hisoric Haverhill, Massachusetts. Sunday at Buttonwoods is a 24-page collection of original poems and comments that Dan selected for the innaugural event. Only $14.45 ea. Paperback.

 

Free shipping from now to December 19.

Each chapbook includes author autograph and a print of the poem "A Hot Summer Night in Haverhill" that Dan wrote and presented to the City of Haverhill upon his selection as Artist of the Month, May, 2009.

  "An nostalgic, poetic portriat of cutture, history and society in old and new New England as seen through the eyes of internationally acclaimed poet, Dan Speers, painter of words." --Yankee Clipper



Fun Sites I Really Like

 

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The Jittery Goat

 

Political Issues & Not

 

Daniel Kurtzman's Political Humor

 

  



War Poetry

Coming soon--Dan's first full-length book of poetry:

Weapons of Mass Delusion.

By popular demand (I have gotten more hate mail from the fanatics over this poem than any other poem I have ever written), it will include:

 

      Dead Certain

 

  The War Trilogy

    Viet Nam

     The 2nd Iraq War

     Afghanistan

 

 

From Master Spies Die Laughing

the novel, comes the ballad

  One Thousand Brave Young Soldiers 

 

 

Award-Winning Poems

    

 

  Does Anyone Know I'm Here?

          First Place World Wide

           Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest  

 

   So Very Cold Outside

          Finalist

           Margie, The American Journal of Poetry, vol. 5 

 

 


Featured Poems

A Taste of Dirt

What Would He Do?

Everybody Loves Babies

 

Tribute to Robert Frost

          December


 

  Sijo Poetry Contest

 

Earlier this summer, the Boston Globe ran an excellent story about the rivival of a poetry form known as Sijo.I tried my hand at writing it. See Sijo Link. You may want to try your hand at writing Sijo as well. The contest closed July 3, but you still might like to read some of the samples. Sijo is a Korean styling simiar to haiku. The pattern is three lines consisting of four shorter phrases, each phrase with a designated number of syllables:

 

Lines 1 and 2:    3  /  4  / 3 or 4  / 4

Line 3:               3 /  5  /    4      / 3 

  

Here is my sijo: 

 

Word from on High
          Late one night, God came calling,
               whiskey talking from a bottle.
          A new night, a new bottle.
               "Hey, God," I said to the empty.
          "Hey, yourself," the bottle replied.
               "Did you not hear that I lied?"

 


 Poetry Types - Old versus New

 

If you are interested in , or perhaps obsessed with, the various styles and types of poetry, you should visit the ShadowPoetry site. There are excellent descriptions of traditional poetry types both well-known and obscure, as well as an extensive list of Invented Poetry Types, activity that not only spanned the centuries but also is practiced by modern-day poets. Also, take a look at my own invented poetry type, the Apigram.


 

Yes! Neil Diamond was here! Neil Diamond almost didn't make it to the Fourth of July concert with the Boston Pops and the annual fireworks festival. No true patriot (by which I mean a Pat's fan, of course) will doubt the truth of this poem. 

 

Twit If by Land, Tweet If by Sea ... Neil Diamond's midnight flight plight and his fight to get to a Boston site late at night. 

 


  

It is fascinating how some

Numbers can add up to some sum.

 

                ~~~~~~~~~~

 

Seems for most who ask my advice,

Words of approval will suffice


Our health when good is trivial

When bad, what's trivial is vital.


 

     More advice from Farmer Hicks:

          It's time to cull the non-layers

     And replace them all with young chicks.

Farmer Hicks says . . .

     despite what's wrought by man,

Heredity is nature's back-up plan.

One cock is sufficient

     per each ten hens;

But then, it isn't the eggs he's laying.

 

We pick the beans

     and eat what we can,

But, of course, what we can't we can.

--from The Poor Farmer Hicks Almanac

as ReliablyRecorded by Dan Speers


     I said to my wife, my dear, our budget

     We need to go over. --No need to fret,

     She said. We've already gone over it.

 

     Playing hard to get was his sense

    Of what to her was just indifference.

 

     Don't take rebuffs personally,
     G
irls who say 'No' may proper be,
     But gay may be just as likely.

                                                                                          

 -- from Rattle of the Sexes
    
by Dan Speers


The greater the uncertainty,

The more dogmatic the certainty.

 

 

I'm told virtue is its own reward

Easy when rich, but when poor, hard. 

Imagine being able,

     To imagine

The unimaginable.

 

I say we must spare no expense;

Study reincarnation since,

After all, we only live once.

 

Life after death is not a benefit,

If other people are enjoying it.

 

Beware that what you get for free,

Is likely worthless--or costly.

 

Many a fine guest I have known,

But best were those who stayed at home.

 

No need to heed your enemies' critique,

Whatever they say, your friends will repeat.

 

Religion is that which makes you believe, 

That God works through 

                  the vaccine you receive.

     It is freedom's religious obsession

     To freely choose its own oppression.

 

      To justify the good they spurn,

      The righteous to religion turn.

 

Why are the principles for which men die

Easier to fight for than to live by?

 

In memory of Ted Kennedy and all he represented, Watch this.


 Does war

     make you mad

     when the mad

Make war?


Today, I, you, tomorrow will be,

Just as you, tomorrow will be me.

  An August Lament

I stand on the edge of sea

Looking olut. But all I can see

Is the sea. Looking back at me.

     --from Inconsonants, Possibly Welsh


 

 

 

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Single Stream Recycling

Haverhill's introducing

Single stream recycling

 

Here's a jingle, to make it clear

What's trash, what's not, and what goes where

 

Haverhill, MA, is introducing single stream recycling. Gargage goes into one container and all recyclables into another. No need to separate out jars, cans, paper or plastic. Just put with the newspapers that you have been putting out. Sorting is done automatically by specialized equipment.

 

This Recycling Jingle is not official, nor is it connected to or affiliated with the city in any way. It is simply a rhyme I created in response to all of the questions I got from going door to explain the program and help residents identify what is classified garbage and what is recyclable.

 

I have a few refrigerator magnets and calendar stickers left for Haverhill residents. They are free and they are first come, first serve. Send your request by email to dan@citizenpoet.com and I'll tell you how to get yours.

 

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