Xxxix Poems - Poems about Xxxix

The 'Voice-Summer night'* Edvard Munch first love at sight Milly ever on his mind a dalliance of the romantic kind...

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Key, Black to White, Black to White back to front, front to back dancing naked a pale moonlight passions rising over a burning sea you can see madam you can see in the twin mirror of me won now now won one two one two nailed the predictive text of life unpredictability mailed sent off only to be returned sites left to be seen running the streets Pamplona by the sea sipping prosecco warm...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : XXXIX For Aurélien BARRAU, the consummate millenial teacher IF you pull a long perplexed face At the way this World has come to stay Bad Guys always running the human race Good Guys have no recourse but to pray If you pull a long victimized face Hoping somehow the Meek will win...

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Scorched earth flows from Rump’s rumble And feds are furloughed and grumble Although he seems glad For us it’s rather sad While his wall and our cookies crumble Author's note: The world's economic and social ills won't be fixed by a wall, but the US steel companies will benefit. In the "America First" isolationist world, some assume that we...

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If ever I had a country : XXXIX - XLI XXXIX If ever I had a country And if ever by some fluke I were the Minister of Trade and Commerce I'd round up these Protected Species of vicious witches who live off the fat of the tenement purse In cohorts with the " assured " companies and the conniving...

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Unquotable quotes: The How of Democratic Kill – XXXIX, Part One Born in 1868, Alexei Maximovich PESHKOV, better known as MAXIM GORKY and hailed as the chief proponent of Soviet literature, the veritable champion of the proletariat and the downtrodden masses, and who counted among his foremost friends LENIN, STALIN and TROTSKY, was poisoned with camphor...

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