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Rated: 18+ · Book · Emotional · #1926559
A new book to house this year's (and future years) NationalPoetryMonth's daily poems.
I'm writing once again this year. This book is my special event place for thirty special poems.

Here for National Poetry Month in 2018, I'm participating but life has not been kind in the last 15 months, so I'm not always in writing mode.





April 18, 2018 at 7:58am
April 18, 2018 at 7:58am
#933023
we, the people, choke on the sweet pills
to gloss over or spruce up c'est la vie

medicine that kidnaps the dailyness
millions of other toy soldiers

who rush upright through Christmas
elbowing, an exercise in sleep apnea

pipe dreams filled with the dazzle
of cheap colored tap water

the parched quest for a human
teddy bear to warm up morning coffee

the chatter of Valentines, a single
forgettable day to celebrate tables

not set for two, the cat eats on the floor
and mirrors growl to “who’s the fairest?”

time runs out like a marathon and
c'est la vie offers a lumpy hospice bed

hoping, even though it's our absence
now someone will say a nice word or two

and won't disrupt the tombstone
engraved with a stupid c’est la vie

wasn't there something outstanding
like fireworks or walking on the moon?



when the bargaining table is tilted
[2018.18.4...a]



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