Sissyphus sits by
having a smoke break amidst
the eternal flames
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MORE FROM THIS POET: A selection of my micropoetry!
- Picking Up the Pieces >
The old society has been destroyed,
we are forging a new world
out the shards of the old.
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- Same Old Us >
no matter how much we change
or are changed by technology,
we will still remain
recognizably human.
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- Where We Used to Be >
And tomorrow should have been
better.
And yesterday’s smashed stones
and silted concrete
tell no tales.
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- Long Lost Young Man Has Returned >
Richard, nine years agone
calls now from a new field,
where he has taken wing.
He has slipped gravity’s bonds
to the tune of three hundred pounds.
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- Primary Candidates >
They don’t even hear
the score of the tragic opera
they sing with aching,
noble, honeyed sadness.
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- False Postives >
Chiaperelli saw the lines
on the surface of Mars
and assumed they were caused
by intelligent life.
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