Sample Poems
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2011You know the river is moving, though upstream or down isn’t obvious. You aren’t thinking about that anyway, just watching the wavelets break on shore, listening to their slap, the brush of wind through foliage. Even when a boat buzzes past, you wave without thinking, as a matter of course.
Literary Limericks #2: Moby Dick
Monday, January 17th, 2011This story’s about all things nautical and a captain whose faith has grown prodigal. Although Ahab’s a terror— the crew doomed by his error— Ishmael’s philosiphotical.
Factory Farm
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 [...]
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