My father wants to drive. Maybe an old Lincoln, tool around town, Pipe clenched between gums. He wants to stop at a drive-thru, eat a burger if he has a mind to, listen to talk radio with a dog in the back seat. My father wants to accelerate, smoothly merge, blinkers blinking, elbow propped in […]
Cold as a dry cube of ice sticking to my tongue, your eyes freeze me in suspended animation, the last vestige of a misbegotten effort.
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Young titans Stretching, reaching Demanding breakthrough. Never satisfied, Chafing at human bonds. Searching to fulfill one desire: Expression of Their ultimate art, And sharing of innermost dreams.
The river Styx is mighty, life or death on either side, The current’s strong, the journey long, the destination bleak, The punishment of evil lives the boarders must abide They shall not find in any kind the respite they do seek The Frenchman, Jew, the Englishman, the unassuming Greek, Will meet the fate their deeds
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(A Found Poem) Dear Applicant: Please provide the requested information so this office can make a Medicaid eligibility determination for the above claimant currently confined to a skilled nursing home facility. If the requested information is not received within twenty (20) days, the claimant’s Medicaid eligibility will be denied or… Terminated.
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I fought my battles I did my time, I did it well Bitter memories of the hell I lived. Broken dreams and broken men Are all behind me now Many miles I walked alone To stand on one last hill. Now I see the desert, my journey’s end. Add one bloody green jacket, All I
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