OBSESSION

                                    No matter how we all decried
                                    The animosity that might divide
                                    Their families, they both defied
                                    Our sentences and would deride
                                    Our efforts, and our pleas denied,
                                    Nor ever let good sense decide.

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CAUTION!

                                        You must strive to be firm
                                        With your pet pachyderm
                                        Lest its trunk, like a worm,
                                        In some window will squirm.

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TRASH AND TREASURE

                    My wife’s a hunter-gather it seems,
                    And stuff left by the curb-side for the trash
                    That oughtn’t be crunched up to smithereens
                    And then incinerated to mere ash
                    It is her mission to save from such fate,
                    To salvage and recycle what’s still good,
                    Returning home, car laden, and elate
                    With all these treasures from the neighborhood.

                    The only part that needs to be refined
                    Is what to do with stuff we do not want
                    And finding someone else happily inclined
                    These places of such cast-off stuff to haunt,
                         For it’s too terrible to contemplate
                         A trash compactor as its destined fate.

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ZEUS

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PROTECTIVE COLORATION

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LIFE AFTER LIFE

                       There’s physical and metaphysical:
                       Our mortal bodies and immortal souls
                       Some say, while others say they’re full of bull:
                       Each views things from opposing poles.

                      What evidence is there that we have been
                      Incarnate on this planet previously
                      Except alleged memories that begin
                      In early childhood with felt certainty?

                      If souls have lived before, why should they not
                      Recall those lives with perfect accuracy,
                      Whereas all but few notions are forgot
                      As with most dreams that flee from memory.

                           Reincarnation has a great appeal,
                           Yet it’s more likely fantasy than real.

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LAKE SUE SUNSET







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