Odd Days

A holiday looms
An extra day off
For some people
But not as many as should be
And never enough
And some are content with the way things are
While others are certainly not
And have started their celebrations early

I, too, use a shovel, but not for that, as might well be understood.
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Who can blame them
Really
As would not do the same
Had they not thought of it in time?

But that I do not blame them
Does note mean I am not struggling
Making sure my work gets done
And some of theirs
When they are not here

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I Try to Keep in Mind

The people coming up now are doing the best they can with what they have
And if they react differently than I did
Their situation is different than mine was
And they did not start where I did
Where they could see what I saw
And bask in a light that has been dimmed or switched off

It’s a different look.
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The people who went before were doing the best they could with what they had
And if they reacted differently than I do
Their situation was different than mine was
And they did not start where I did
Where they could see what I saw
Looking through windows that had not been built yet

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Early Salvos

Some theaters have already opened their campaigns
Begun training their personnel
Laying in provisions
Knowing an assault will come soon enough
Hoping to be ready for it

Resolution is coming.
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Others hope to delay the inevitable
Put off until tomorrow
Or until the days after
What will most certainly come
Even though they know
The order of the seasons has been
All upended and overthrown
Preempted by the war we have been told
For decades now
Is ever ongoing

They are not wrong
Strangely enough
There is a war
And it has been in progress
But those who are waging it
Are not those accused of doing so
The WMDs are not where they were said to be
Once again
Nor should it be a surprise
Given who keeps making the claims

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Just Suck It Up

Just suck it up
Put one foot in front of the other
Press on ahead
And choose to be happy
They say
Among many other things
What’ve you got to be sad about
Don’t you know they’re starving over there
How would you like to live like they do
If you can even call it living
You’ve got a house and a car and a job
You’ve got friends and a family
You’ve got your health
So stop complaining
And smile a little
Nobody wants to see you looking like that

You’d be prettier / more handsome if…
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There’s not a lot of straw left to suck on
And a lot of irony in telling someone to suck when
You want them to think they’ve got it good

One foot falls in front of the other
Yes
But you can’t choose what’s not on the menu in most places
And the ingredients have to be in stock no matter what you order
If you want to be well served

That things are hard for other people in other places
Is not a good thing
No
But that they have it bad doesn’t mean you have it good
Despite what you do have
Because you see what you don’t have
And know you’re likely to need it soon

Nor yet should you have to smile
Because your frown might show somebody something
They don’t want to see
Because it reminds them that
Their own grin is nailed in place
Hammered home by other tools
And they don’t want to be the only ones
Hit in the face

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Try and Scrape This

In my opinion
Great men have always stood on the shoulders of giants
Since the beginning of time
It is my belief that
The dictionary defines the term as
It was a dark and stormy night
Everybody understands that
Sometimes things are the way they are because
There are three things to remember here
Coming from an underprivileged background
In this essay, I will prove
All of these people were wrong

Bane and boon in one?
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In conclusion
Cartago delenda est
And they all lived happily ever after
And there will need to be nothing else said about the topic

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References

Flipping through the book again–
I’ve read it before
So many times before–
Deepening the stain on the fore edge
Widening the aging stripe that shows where
My thumb has peeled the leaves back
Searching for something seen once and dimly remembered
So that I can correct the citation

Yes.
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I know I saw it
Somewhere
One phrase on which I can hang the whole thing
I know it’s in there
I just have to find it

Maybe
If I turn just one more page

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Still Running

Legs pumping again
Feet flapping down flatly to the pavement
Radiating back the heat it took in
Under the staring sun

I don’t make it look so nice as that.
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Someday the race will end
But it is not now
Though pushing forward jiggling pillars
Exhausts

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Some Few Questions and Answers

Many ask
What’s the point
Why bury meaning between the lines
And cover it with soil and shit
When simply saying what you mean
Is so much better
Faster
Easier
And it’s not like anyone gives a damn
Anyway

Sure. Why not?
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So much may be true
Of course
It does seem that people don’t much care
Turn away from what might make them work a little
Because they work hard all day
Anyway
And it’s nice not to have to work so hard
At every damned thing

But
And there is a but
There’s always a but
What is on the surface washes away
While the ore and oil and other things
Devoutly desired and deemed fit for use
Must be dug out from deep within
And the faces of mountains weather away in time
With only the strongest stone standing to face the staring sun

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Another Riddle, Perhaps?

Someone’s pants are growing tight
Even though they’re eating right
And exercising every night

Decidedly not the pants in question
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It’s not because they eat too much
Nor that they need a surgeon’s touch
Nor from a chair’s comfortable clutch

Their hatband binds in just that way
Their pants constrain more every day
The swelling, see, does not delay

What, then, can cause this kind of thing
Of which no few singers sing
And which too many seek to bring
Upon themselves?

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The Work of One Early Afternoon

Sprawled out on the couch
Belt undone and pants unbuttoned in
Summer sunlight sneaking in between the curtains
Where the cat had moved them sticking its head out to look at
Birds hopping across the rocks until they grew too hot
And flittering into the browning branches
One hand fallen on the heart
Breathing in and out in quiet peace

I don’t look nearly so good.
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There is a peace in a quiet time
After the tacos have been eaten and
Cups of coffee drunk
Washing away the cares of the world for a while
Baptism performed by no clergy
But ministry of self to self
Following no order of worship but
Soothing the soul no less for that

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