- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Simpleton's Law
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Sun stained skeletons
Captain shopping cart ships
Upon dangerous desert tides.
While barnacle-backed dune jacks
Scan hostile horizons
From frantic, fire filled eyes.
These penny-ante pirates -
Who know a nickel’s interest -
Will drown you for a dime,
Or cut your throat for clams
When who-haves and have-nots
Cross bows above the brine.
It's the nature of the numbers,
Matching matey versus mighty.
Where the war on We (the people)
Counters cutlass with canon,
Windjammer with warship;
A nation’s notion of equal.
While ragged rafts of refugees
Adrift upon an umber ocean
Watch sailors sink in quicksand seas
Their fingered fins flail, then slip
Below, to fathomless rifts
Where wails of sorrow cease…
Mortals commit misdeeds
From the depths of desperation.
Can you call it a crime?
While excuse calms conscience
We recite law to its letter,
“What’s yours is yours. What’s mine is mine.”
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