Poems
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My grandad was a frequent source of embarrassment to meDue mainly to his preoccupation with science and philosophy When he lived with mom and me I had trouble in my schoolWhen he called the school principal a lousy dumb-ass fool And he nearly got the whole family run out of our townWhen he referred to…
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What gives me most pleasureAs I reflectTry to selectIs there something I treasure? Working out in the gymPretend that I likeRiding that bikeTry to get a bit trim Too old now to guzzleOr chase after lassesCertainly no tennis Planning’s a puzzleForgot how to make passesNo longer a menace
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Pythagoras held himself aloofAs he outlined his famous proofHe ejected me as a worthless goof So I spent some time in Plato’s caveWatching all those shadows waveBut I learned nothing I could save I’d been told about dialogues by SocratesSo I saved my coins to pay the feesBut they turned me away despite my pleas…
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It’s Not the Poem Sometimes poems come from I don’t know where or whyPerhaps descending from some benevolent poet in the sky On one day as my old brain was feeling very flat I thought I might get help from AI’s Chat So I asked my recently acquired AI mateTo write a poem on Alexander the…
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My Chestnuts If I were a Horse Chestnut tree, I’d want to change my name I’d call myself a Lovely Chestnut tree, otherwise I’d be the same We admired those blooms of white over in the park, Still visible as we walked along as it turned dark But my greatest pleasure was what they gave…
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The Cement Plant in Alpena was a grey and ugly massAt the far north of town where most people would not pass There were three shifts so that the labor never ceasedGreat Lakes ships stopped by to feed upon that beast Huge rotating kilns were used to heat the limestoneMy father’s workplace, where lung disease…
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The Cement PlantThe Cement Plant in Alpena was a grey and ugly massAt the far north of town where most people would not passThose who worked that factory did so in three shiftsSo that factory owners could enjoy the workers’ giftsThere were huge hot kilns to heat the limestone and the menThirty years of those…
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Just One of Those DaysToday I really don’t want to be here.Not that I really want to be there.Perhaps I want to be nowhereLike many things, that seems unclearWhat’s wrong for me I just can’t sayThis really isn’t a bad place to beBut perhaps it’s not the place for meAt lease today it seems that…
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Countless times when interviewed I am asked about that note Was it from a horn, a string, or was it from a human throat? I do not reveal such private matters even to a friend And so I’m apt to bring such interviews to a rapid end Some have severely criticized me for that stance…
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Charles Darwin’s seminal concepts concerning animal evolution Proposed the idea of species variation for the solution Over eons a species gradually changes its form in some way With a sort of trial and error to sort out the versions that pay So that hawks with better vision were better able To get their prey below…
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