Ignoring Life

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“Literature is

the most

agreeable way of

ignoring life.”

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~ Fernando Pessoa

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Elfje:            (Cinquain)

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ignoring

no consideration

accidentally on purpose

maybe just old age

forgetting

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Senryu:      5-7-5 ( Haiku with people and their emotions/feelings as a topic)

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been there, have the shirt
enjoyable memories
trips to my fantasy land

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Poem:

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the truth is rarely what it is
the conclusions were always his
my two cents was always an opinion
his attitude was he had dominion

does it matter just because he is older
my yellow spine does make him bolder
his A’s in school made him Mothers favorite
this made me feel like a useless parasite

adding insult to injury he graduates from college
my world was about gaining more carnal knowledge
for every one of his ups I had a down
my career aspiration was to be a clown

my shrink told me I had to kill him off
I ended up getting the whooping cough
I woke up, the dream was really wild
the cruel joke was, I was an only child

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ME and the Boss

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A Web You Weave

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‘A story is

like something you

wind out of yourself.

Like a spider,

it is a web you weave,

and you love your story

like a child.”

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~  Katherine Anne Porter

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Elfje:            (Cinquain)

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expensive

well made

rarer than rare

people, places and things

dear

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Tanka:             5-7-5, 7-7

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over the river
going to visit grandma
and through the forest

respect for family birthright
prideful genealogy
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Poem:

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no, no, your other left

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let us all take a trip to fantasy land
a place where everything is a one night stand
a place where fact and fiction are intermingled
a place where everyone’s vision is wrinkled

we’ll call the place california*
a place filled with tropical fauna and flora
also a place filled with fruits and nuts
everyone taking selfies of their butts

a sanctuary for felons and illegals
and we are not talking about sick eagles
daily fantasies produced by tv and movies
you can’t, won’t, don’t die when shot by an uzi

the whole place is cracked by the San Andreas Fault
every other producer charged with sexual assault
the fifth largest economy in the world
a place where the Mexican flag is unfurled

their representatives are poster children for term limits
their southern border like a sieve inhibits
politically and on the map they are as far left as you can go
they believe the feds have no right to know

we pray that someday their sanity may return
the unity of the nation should be their major concern

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* The name California originates from the Spanish conquistadors,
after Califia, a mythical island paradise described in Las Serges de Esplandian
by Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo ​  (a Spanish romance written about 1510).
It most likely came from the Arabic word khalifa which means steward or leader.

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ME and the Boss

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https://michaelerb.wordpress.com

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https://meandtheboss.wordpress.com

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