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Acme Mar 2020
I'm older than dirt and you are
breathing on land for the first
time. I want to shake my finger
at you and say get off my lawn.
Please understand I stood in
your frames of life seconds ago.
We're born in hubris and die
in sorrowful feeble humility.
I wrote **** poetry at 20.
I hope I write better **** at 70.
The poetry I read from young
poets here is amazing.
Your poems will steer your
generation. Be the conscience.
Acme Mar 2020
It plays out on a stage by the sea.
  Violence, money, *** and drugs
  paint the scene blood red smelling
  of copper and naked angels die again.
  I'm left with your artifacts as proof
  you loved me when I was still pure.
Acme Mar 2020
If we want anyone to give our poem
a glance we need to go crazy.
Batboy Lives in My Attic.
That Time I Killed My Wife.
Boy Discovers His *****!
Open Season on *******!
Bring Parents to Your Room Day.
Sell it.
Acme Mar 2020
We ***** these poems faster than HP can
handle. You need a fire hose to keep up.
We're a chatty bunch with endless sins we
need to confess into your priest hole.
We need to know our penance so we can
wipe our slates and fill them up again.
Acme Mar 2020
A bunch of teacher's pets
move the sun back and forth
and the rest of us suffer from
their hubris and arrogance.
Acme Mar 2020
I brought my little girl into the garden.
She delighted in colorful blooms and
fragrance and my tender love that will
never die. She'll give it to her little girl.
Acme Mar 2020
They caught my stray heart.
   It went into a kennel and was
   put on the auction block where
   women would rescue it and try
   to keep it. It always jumped
   their fences and got away.
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