ellis-reyes
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Wretched Beauty
Wretched Beauty / Who were you? / Before the loathsome present.
26
Feb 3
Jumbo Shrimp
Mental health / Is my favorite / Oxymoron
5
Dec 7, 2022
Despair
Despair / It roils beneath the surface / Agitating
18
Jun 7, 2022
Non Mea Culpa
I am not ill / How am I responsible for your illness? / I am free
22
Jan 1, 2022
Formerly Free
When minor acts of defiance / are guilty pleasures, / You are not free
3
Jan 1, 2022
Hope
It’s a glass half full / It’s a light in the distance / It’s the rising sun
21
Jan 1, 2022
Elegy of the Ancient Farmer
Yesterday we bumped along dusty farm roads together / Yesterday the packing shed was a beehive of activity / Yesterday I was the ring bearer in his wedding
12
Jan 1, 2022
A Note From Exile
I cannot go home. / Rather I cannot go where my family lives - that place ceased to be home some time ago. / I was a soldier during the Cold War and my neighbors there have become more like East German loyalists than American citizens.
20
Dec 24, 2021
Driving Thru the 'Stan
In a caravan / Driving a beaten up Humvee / Down the road we go
33
Dec 21, 2021
The Claymore Song
To the tune of 'The Dreidl Song" / (Can't leave out my Jewish Friends) / Claymore, Claymore, Claymore
22
Dec 21, 2021
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