99

Poetry's wages?
usually squash,
yet production is free,
so it's usually a wash.

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66

Anybody who sends
work from the country
for profits and cheap labor
is a terrorist.

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Theoretically

Theoretically I like you, lovely Democracy,
but guess your 'we' merely another 'I'.

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Edna

Tweaking the nose of native
Puritanism
Edna said 'take that'
and 'Dominus probiscum'.

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35

More practical than time,
Art can be changed, time cannot:
Time, I leave you behind

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43

'So many souls, ' she confessed,
'In fifty years the world will be
a ball of flesh.'

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Riddle 2

What do you call
poems that eschew
the merely personal?

Poems for mature audiences.

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82

Here, Truth is construed
an equal dispersion of goods-
itself a form of profit-taking.

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45

'Let him go, ' she said,
no cash, too bright, tho' he's cute
I grant you, he's cute.'

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72

Would you live a long and happy life?
cultivate joy and forgiveness
and don't watch TV.

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