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  1. Yes, I Love Big, Boring Books

    Yes, I Love Big, Boring Books

    I'm a contrarian
    by nature and by heart:
    authoritarian
    of the dumb and the smart.
    So, you say that "Moby-Dick
    goes dully on and on"?
    And Dickens' *yawn* Pickwick
    Papers a marathon
    of tedium and woe?
    For me such dullard cries
    bestow a golden glow
    of heavy levity
    upon those boring books
    of noted gravity.
    Of Kindels, texts or Nooks --
    I am ...

    Updated 05-01-2011 at 08:53 PM by The Comedian

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  2. Song of a New Potty

    So our old pot,
    It rocked a lot:
    When you had to "go",
    It swayed to and fro.
    Both the bowl and basin
    Did much water wastin'.
    A miserable crapper
    With a broken flapper!

    "Enough!" I said.
    So off I sped
    To the big box store.
    Hoses, pipes and more
    They had in great supply.
    And potties! I had to try
    To pick one with the perfect flush.
    But I was in such a rush!
    ...
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  3. Into The Open Sky

    Into the Open Sky

    Our autumn leaves descend --
    Poplar, sugar maple,
    Oak, and black cherry --
    The colored-side face down.

    Pines half-participate --
    They shed (like deer in spring)
    Their summer-gathering
    Interior needles.

    I love them, these old pines:
    Their autumn molting time,
    Their winter sun diets,
    Their shedding summer fluff.

    I rake them this morning--
    The turned leaves ...

    Updated 10-19-2010 at 01:28 PM by The Comedian (Thoughtful reader feedback)

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  4. Transparency

    This poem was written for the Picture Poetry Contest. It is a response to this image:



    Transparency

    The sun behind the stones,
    The people in the crag,
    His hands in his pockets,
    Her hands behind her gown.

    We hide what we can see:
    These people, the earth, and me.

    The sun behind the clouds,
    The rain ...
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  5. Fickle is Fancy

    This poem was originally posted in the Picture Poetry Contest.

    Will you continue to look at me, please?
    Fair skin, dark hair, black circles, white sclera:
    You're a pose of contrasts. Metallic blue
    Feathers reflected under mascara.

    They airbrushed you. Can't you see? No face is
    That white, that unblemished, that de-veined.
    You're a Wal-Mart shrimp frozen from the farm.
    Bloodless and raised in a seine to be seined.
    ...

    Updated 05-07-2010 at 11:58 AM by The Comedian

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