Anthony Pierre

Sep 2020

Norman Crane

Font

Give a man a book,
He'll burn it for a day.
Give a man a typewriter:
His mind will burn forever.

#intellect #books #reading #writing #thinking #burn #fire #typewriter #imagination #creation

Sep 2020

William J Donovan

The Poem

I want to write the poem
you always quote to impress
friends at Hampton parties
and read to your children
so they understand why this
whole mad spinning life is
worth the price of admission.
We might be born in a manger.
We might be Mary Magdalen.
We might be a million peasants.
Nobody will ever remember a
million peasants. We know Christ.

Anthony Pierre Sep 2020

Annotation on a Tree near Salisbury

LXI abrogari passuros aiebant articulum (Repeal article 61)

John was here, 1215

Oh Magna Carta, oh Magna Carta, what hast thou taketh unto thyself, unjustly?

Sep 2020

Shel Silverstein

Weird-Bird

Birds are flyin' south for winter.
Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north,
Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin',
Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth.
He says, "It's not that I like ice
Or freezin' winds and snowy ground.
It's just sometimes it's kind of nice
To be the only bird in town."

Anthony Pierre Sep 2020

Death Row Choir Dream

dream of birds in flight

dream of birds on trees

but rows on rows
of murderous crows singing

these dreams, have not please

The songs on death row are far from sweet

Sep 2020

Qualyxian Quest

some and some

So they know some of my sins
And some of my talents too

I hope the gods go easy on me
Easier than the critics do

I believe in forgiveness
And also cosmic protection

I believe that Biden must win
The upcoming American election

The biologists all believe
In Darwinian natural selection

I do too
But with human care and affection