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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010Oh, come down and visit our factory farm! It’s better by far than the zoo. We’ve farm animals like you never dreamed, And modern technology, too! See thousands of egg hens packed twelve to a cage, So cozy they can’t spread a wing. To keep them from pecking each other to death, We’ve burned off [...]
A Pretty Pair of Published Poems
Friday, February 12th, 2010Sometimes I can be dense. Despite a long personal history of online activity—starting with BBSs during the 80s, way too many hours on GEnie during its heyday, and Web surfing from the first wave—I’ve had a reluctance to submit creative works for publication online. After all, I’ve made a career (since 1984) in print publishing. [...]
“Wednesday”
Thursday, January 7th, 2010(a 50-word story) Passing the seventh floor, he mooned a board meeting. She chided him, “Show some decorum.” He laughed. No, he hooted, exhilarated. “You’re not taking this seriously,” she said. “God will judge you in the end.” He considered: If he’d had a “do-over,” he’d have chosen someone else to jump with. //
For Jenny, a Toast on 33 Years
Friday, November 6th, 2009This—for those who told us we would fail, Who said we’d never last. How they must feel Today. Another year now stands in file Of witnesses against them. And we foal One more to prance our fields, a happy fool! This, to them who never held a leaf Together—but for money spent a life. This, [...]
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