What is this?
A gift.
A wristband watch.
How convenient.
For someone.
For me?
I wonder…
It’s a kind of a band
(A bit like a slave band)
A bit of a rift,
Between me and me
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If you see;
Get my drift.
It’s kind of sand
In my shoe
Keeping me from other things
And it rings
In my ear
That a land
Where all that stands
Is the least pernicious example
Is but a silly sweet example
Of things to come.
“Hurry to the hippodrome!
Never mind the cost.”
Never mind what’s lost
Never mind what land
We conquer to expand
The land that … sorry….
Didn’t mean to mention that…
The land of the free…
I hope that is an okay phrase,
An acceptable phrase.
Because the thing that worries me
Is not forty-five per se,
Oh,
No.
I know.
No.
What bothers me is this:
That a part of me says, “hiss”
On cue.
And then I say “Boo!”
And either way,
It’s Putin’s day.
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Oh, yes. We are quite the quintessential conquestadoro.
Les hommes mucho macho
Let’s salsify the nacho
Let’s wolf down some state or other.
Sorry, meant to say steak or other…
Slyly, slyly, you may perceive
That I,
Much like our current reality,
Make no sense.
Granted,
But I have no pretensions of being
Chiseled into Mount Rushtoomuchmore
Just because I gave away
The U S A
To those who hanker-danker for oil.
“Oil.”
Isn’t that a lovely word?
I like the sound.
Silky, deep, and dark.
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“Oil.”
I love the stuff.
Titusville, Pennsylvania as I recall
Was the happening place to be.
Nearly, West Virginia and Ohio
Came to blows over it.
But we got over it.
Clear over the rainbow.
All the way to where the sun don’t shine
To where instead monkeyshines
Rule the day,
And check
And slay.
Say!
My watch alarm now is screaming:
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“Way past time to play!
All hands on deck!
You’re making a wreck
Of every day!
Your addictive greed
Grew a wicked weed!
Thoughts flash between sulcus and gyrus
Showing us how to beat the virus,
We must hunker down and work as one
For just this once until it’s done.
Then, we go and green this globe
Let’s use once more that frontal lobe!”
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Start of the Second Book of the Myths of the Veritas
Table of Contents for the Second Book of the Veritas
Table of Contents for Essays on America
Index for a Pattern Language for Teamwork and Collaboration
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