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 Oct 2013 Basko
Daniel Magner
Government shutdown
means no food stamps
stamping my foot
in hunger
I'm cold
lonely
and miss my
brother
Daniel Magner 2013
 Oct 2013 Basko
Nebulous the Poet
He was making old people.

Angry old people walking around in spite.

The train sits on the bridge, the bridge wonders.

It’s like a simple gust of wind.

It will rest on dead trains.

A stone retaining wall supporting a builder of empires.

The ghosts turn in their graves.

The air ever so slightly biting your cheeks.

A beautiful thing passes; it will never look the same.

A mirror shatters.
For this poem, I took a section of my free-writing and broke it up in to single sentences. I then ONLY deleted words and phrases I did not want to come up with this poem. My creative writing teacher had me do this. And it was awesome.
 Oct 2013 Basko
Nizar Qabbani
My lover asks me:
"What is the difference between me and the sky?"
The difference, my love,
Is that when you laugh,
I forget about the sky.
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