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Sonnet: How It Feels To Not Log Onto Facebook For 48 Hours

As the stars align in the Summer sky,

As one century turns into the next,

So do we give thanks Bruce Jenner’s a guy

And people still call when, tempted, they might text.

We’re thankful that the world is small and flat,

That European powers rule it all.

Perhaps above all else we’re thankful that

No team would play with a deflated ball.

Yet as we smile, gratef’ly reminiscing

We dream of a future where a black man

Can be elected president, dissing

The establishment, saying “yes we can.”

And so we sleep comfortable in our world

Never suspecting it could be unfurled.

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How Quickly Things Change

Waiting for the bus

In the rain

Next to other people

Who don’t have their bus passes.

Waiting for the bus.

Such a pain!

Other people are talking to me

Mostly out of their asses.

Waiting for the bus,

Not a train.

Other people haven’t gotten the hint that my failure to acknowledge their attempts to converse mean I don’t want to converse.

Such is the transport of the masses.

Then the bus arrives

And my jaw falls limply.

She steps off, so graceful,

So beautifully simply.

I watch her meander

Like a flower in the breeze,

Warm and fragile like stained glass

And as innocent as a sneeze.

I mean to call out to her

So she might look my way

But I find my tongue and brain

Cannot agree on what to say.

I dumbly watch her disappear

And without so much as fuss

I’m standing by myself once more

Just waiting for the bus.

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The US Constitution (As Read By Congress)

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On a sandwich. 

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How To Name A Soap Opera

You know how in a setting

Where people have the same name

They add the last initial to the end

And try to make it sound not-lame?

I wonder if such trends apply

To animals as well,

Like if two sheep are named Adam

But one’s an E and one’s an L.

Let’s take it one step farther

And say there are two Adam E’s.

How do you distinguish them?

At this you dare not to sneeze.

So if you’re confused about which sheep

You’re looking for. One is eating and one’s up a tree

You can identify the sheep you want:

It’s Grazin’ Adam E.

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Camelot, <60 Seconds Before This Poem Becomes Tomorrow's Poem

The table’s round.

The knights are young.

The swords are drawn

And the fu is kung.

The mists descend

Like falling water

While the king mourns

That no one has yet made “Welcome Back Kotter.”

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Being Tired/Me

It’s late and I’m tired.

Around my head animated ducks do dance.

I could go to bed

But realistically there’s really no chance.

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I Propose A New Form Of Government, With Blackjack… And Hookers

“People can’t be trusted

“To govern themselves.”

Thus spake the many to you.

“But we, the incompetent

“Untrustworthy many

“Have the wisdom to pick those who’ll do.”

And so those who can’t govern

Pick from among them

An elite narcissistic few

And that, my dear readers,

Is why we the people

Are quite democratically screwed.

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The Mother-In-Law Speaks

Her skin was white and milky

Like a lump of unchurned butter.

Her hair was soft and silky

Like a smooth something-or-utter.

She lived with seven midgets

With ironic, mood-based names.

She gave me a case of the fidgets

And set my life aflame…

Bitch.

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TV Commercials, In Essence

You’re going to spend

The rest of your life

Drinking water solely

To transform into pee.

Instead get hydrated

The new, better way:

*Insert catchy jingle*

Come get an IV!

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Time Management

I’ve got a flight

Tomorrow at noon.

It boards at 11:00,

An hour too soon.

I need to be

At the gate by 10:00 an’

That means to be safe

I’ll shoot for 9:07.

To get there by 9:00

I should leave around 8:00

So we’ll say 7:30

In case I run late.

I should set my alarm

To give myself time

To fully prepare

So let’s say 6:09.

When you figure in traffic,

Potential assaults,

The phase of the moon,

And seismological faults

I left yesterday

At 11:08

All the while disappointed 

That I’ll probably be late.

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