tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35413697179805549702024-02-07T18:56:43.948-08:002017 Inaugural PoemStuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-13198354139644452522017-01-19T16:03:00.001-08:002017-01-19T16:03:46.992-08:00TAMARA FAIRCHILD (Iqaluit, Nunavut)<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">You were right about the end, my love. You called it. I should never have doubted that<span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">our neighbour’s worst impulses would finally impale reason and compassion with pitchforks.<span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Uncle Sam was always a bit of a bully, and never my favourite, but he was still sort of family. <span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">For years he was a roadside attractcident drawing us in despite ourselves. He was Vegas, neon<span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">unreality, a guy with too many guns talking a big game & dropping by with deplorable friends, a<span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">crazy, small town, big city patriot, with some beautiful dreams and a fatal attraction to nut jobs.<span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Knowing where it ends changes the past like learning your teacher was a child molester.<span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">If I could do it again, I wouldn’t laugh. I wouldn’t blithely toss off the ugly as a foil for my superiority.<span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Now, I regret my irony, my naïve belief that progress is permanent. I regret my complacency as truth<span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">gave way to truthiness, then accelerated into post-truth until we stared slack-jawed in disbelief. <span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Democracy was stolen by a clown from a nightmare so bad we haven’t even imagined it yet.<span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">I’m afraid. America isn’t too big to fail. It’s under attack by a cheeto godzilla, as yuge as it is stupid, <span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">crushing everything good with greed and directionless spite. Can we lucid dream our way out of <span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">kakistocracy? Time will tell if this government by a parade of the worst people will be fascist<span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">warmongers, a kleptocratic dictatorship, another vile variety of corruption and decaying pus or<span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">all of the above. While tiny hands tweet death rays with weaponized Twitter, republican Jesus is</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US">dropping bombs on the poorest and weakest. This is the American Dream. This is me waking up.</span></span></span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-56904272308840938372017-01-17T10:06:00.001-08:002017-01-17T10:06:10.185-08:00JENNIFER BAKER (Ottawa)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-74461376146236123122017-01-15T07:23:00.001-08:002017-01-15T07:23:15.926-08:00NATALIE HANNA (Ottawa)
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">now she says in tinned telephone
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>girl, have i not cause for pride? but i am begging</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">killjoy genus, species feminist</span></div>
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</span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-46530657510187018662016-12-29T20:12:00.000-08:002016-12-29T20:12:00.040-08:00JASON HEROUX (Kingston, Ontario)<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>LOUDSPEAKER</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b> </b><br /><br />You’re a device always channeling one electrical signal<br /><br />over another into a sound loud enough to be heard<br /><br />uptown you came to get down jump around get some<br /><br />feeling we’re all devices powered by impulses we don’t<br /><br />understand what we’re saying or hearing you don’t<br /><br />care what we’re thinking say what you like do you<br /><br />know if anyone is listening loudspeaker your voice<br /><br />is up for grabs play what you want the future is under<br /><br />new management we don’t know why new snow keeps<br /><br />getting stuck in old snow waiting for friends to come<br /><br />dig it up with their shovels or why a dying battery loves<br /><br />its toy even though it won’t play or why the moon loves<br /><br />channeling its lonesomeness through our bones who<br /><br />knows if riot dogs are barking I LOVE YOU at the crowd<br /><br />whoever wants to be happy must do it now if someone<br /><br />alerts us to leave the premises tell them we came to get<br /><br />down we came to get down not to give up jump around.</span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-47970459611620561262016-12-19T03:03:00.003-08:002016-12-19T18:03:25.563-08:00LAURA FARINA (Vancouver)<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Believe Me</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ogled organic farmer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Uninhibited ukelele player</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Fondled forest ranger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Up-for-it upholsterer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Curvy chiropractor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kittenish kitchen manager</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Inviting inventor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Nubile neurosurgeon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Groped gas leak inspector</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Impregnated impressionist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Coquettish CEO</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kneeling karate instructor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="m_-8071180119691958089yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481727327901_44502" style="font-size: 12pt;">Our fury for your deceits, our frail</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="m_-8071180119691958089yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481727327901_44505" style="font-size: 12pt;">Unity rendered dumb and disunited.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="m_-8071180119691958089yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481727327901_44510" style="font-size: 12pt;">For your gilt-rusted rage, you martialed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="m_-8071180119691958089yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481727327901_44533" style="font-size: 12pt;">Deliver no promise but spite</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="m_-8071180119691958089yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481727327901_44536" style="font-size: 12pt;">Its remaining decency, hound</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="m_-8071180119691958089yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481727327901_44539" style="font-size: 12pt;">Civility into a sad corner, and will</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="m_-8071180119691958089yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481727327901_44542" style="font-size: 12pt;">Kick good with bad faith. Still,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="m_-8071180119691958089yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481727327901_44545" style="font-size: 12pt;">We learn anew from anger’s focus</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="m_-8071180119691958089yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481727327901_44548" style="font-size: 12pt;">Are goaded by your ‘Great’ brag, you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="m_-8071180119691958089yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481727327901_44551" style="font-size: 12pt;">Dare us this better rage.</span></span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-23581673813993330462016-12-16T03:28:00.000-08:002016-12-19T06:37:45.659-08:00VIVIAN VAVASSIS (Ottawa)
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">You never know when
democracy will choke</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">out a glottal-stopped
death rattle</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">under elliptical bows of
grandeur,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">fences and steel
that stand monolithic</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">under guile, the guise of
greatness.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">Can you hear the semantics
cast in </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">knee-jerk frenzy</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">invoking the hysteria of
red states?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">Neville never saw the
signs</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">glad-handing in clueless
clucks</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">despite the world
realigning </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">in desperate coordinates.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">Churchill
read ciphers like constellations</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">knowing fragility threads
muscle and spirit.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">We never saw it coming!
Only you kind of knew he'd</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">ape it, an orange
marshmallow man teetering over DC</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">dancing a bigly toppling
jig.</span></div>
Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-15347167767478489182016-12-11T14:07:00.000-08:002016-12-11T14:07:13.821-08:00CANNONBALL STATMAN (Brooklyn, NY)<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You realize why no one voted for you in New York, right?<br />
Or do you? You overgrown mutant<br />
Uterus from the 2nd dimension. I watched<br />
Fifty billion marathon runners pickling disfigured syringes<br />
Under their arms as they stood paralyzed awaiting the<br />
Crow of the cock at the feet of a century<br />
Killing six baker’s dozen seagulls from a bored shadow universe<br />
Into our distorted star system where<br />
Nuance is no substitute for the sensation of blood,<br />
Grits, and your<br />
Dicksucking cabinet of homophobic hypocrites.<br />
I am not impressed.<br />
Could you at least not<br />
Kill Chuck Berry, Paul McCartney, John Cale, and<br />
Wim Wenders?<br />
And while you’re at it, could you accomplish one redeemable, even<br />
Decent thing in the next four years?</span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-13637082016922859832016-12-11T08:31:00.001-08:002016-12-11T08:31:34.300-08:00AMANDA EARL (Ottawa)<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You wanted a celebrity president:<br />Okay then, losers. Very interesting.<br />Understand, you voted for me.<br /><br />Furthermore, America is a disaster.<br />Unhappy? Hard to imagine.<br />Capitalism’s the only way. Believe me.<br />Killjoys will be locked up.<br />Immigrants? Not a problem.<br />No Muslims allowed.<br />Guns? I love them bigly.<br /><br />Don’t say trickledown won’t work.<br />I exploit workers; they understand.<br />Caring didn’t make me rich. Let the poor eat<br />Krispy Kremes. They’re morons.<br />What about healthcare? Excuse me?<br />Absolutely not. Unless you pay bigly.<br />Dear white broads: thanks for the votes.</span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-80639759989908003772016-12-10T22:45:00.000-08:002016-12-11T05:49:38.674-08:00MARK GRENON (Montreal)<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Braggadocioficationism</b><br /><br />You’ve slathered the world in apoplexy,<br />ornery oratory, braggadocio,<br />ultimatums commandeering Greenbackers in a future i.o.u. snafu.<br />Firing the falconer won’t conceal the falcon knockoff<br />under the falsetto flaggers, nor will POTUS-prompted Twitter jujitsu,<br />Captain Carotene, curtail the Great Invisible Wall of your climacteric.<br />Kowtowers, bluenecks, rednecks, thinking they’re gonna get some payback,<br />idolize you, mirroring the spectre of your red-hatted alibi,<br />not knowing the trajectory of your MAGA campaign<br />(gimmickry, hyperbranding, xenotrolling) <br />deaf to the arc of its rancor, is that the electorate’s to be betrayed.<br />Indignant, an ism unto yourself, darksuited, anti-<br />cogito, constantly clickbaited, ultraphallic<br />Kickback King, how did you lowjack,<br />without a clue in hell, the body politic, disavow,<br />aargh, the zeitgeist of some better America<br />dying to be born out of this jailbird jeremiad?</span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-44247479727231544772016-12-10T13:40:00.002-08:002016-12-10T13:40:30.707-08:00NINA JANE DRYSTEK (Ottawa)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yesterday was better, yes we will change things, he suggested.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On the line he places billionaires vested in themselves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Under covers, coil and recoil, I watched rants and numbers </span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Flutter across invisible signals.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ugliness rears its head in (front of) us all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cars are called by a phone app called Uber.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kids hear better than the rest of us, identify difference.</span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ice melts are shifting the jet stream. But</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">No we are not responsible for any of this.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Give me another whiskey. License bad</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Decisions. Everything is off kilter.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If only we could stake it all on satire.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Consider counting down the days with good news. This</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kris Kringle kills my buzz. I can’t</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Watch <i>Home Alone 2</i> without cringing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Arnold will have to carry me through, along with</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
Donald Duck as Scrooge.</span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-42602845556830034112016-12-10T13:35:00.004-08:002016-12-10T13:35:34.306-08:00JIM SMITH (Toronto)<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yurtfuls of flaming democrats<br />owls highspeed collision with building<br />unspeakably amped infants in the dating pen<br /><br />fat jiggles state borders<br />urine reservoirs full of pale supremacists<br />catlike aneurysms void guts <br />kicks just keep getting harder to find<br />inside your endless suit<br />nazis cuddle<br />groping underage objects<br /><br />direct Ivanka to the surgical procedure<br />in which she is remade in your likeness<br />collect her biologic waste<br /><i>kinder, ich liebe nicht dich</i><br />where shall we meet<br />against all reason, when<br />death wants us coming in hot?</span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-15461020096428983022016-12-10T08:16:00.003-08:002016-12-10T08:16:43.111-08:00A. G. PASQUELLA (Toronto)
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yonder lies The
Pyramid</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">on top of
another pyramid</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">under an ocean
of ash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Freedom tasted
terrible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Uncle Sam didn’t
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cookie Monster
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">knife still
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ill-met, my
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Nurses in
bikinis</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">gasp as
Leviathan rises from the deep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Demons blow
dandelions.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Igloos melt; we
mortgage the puddles.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cookie Monster
dies in exile. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kermit-skin
coats crackle in the bonfire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Weathermen
weep; The Pyramid burns</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">as Leviathan </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">dumbs out the
lights.</span></div>
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</span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-225805501592214422016-12-10T08:04:00.003-08:002016-12-10T08:04:51.006-08:00MARILYN ROSE (Cobourg, Ont.)
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yet even as I<br />
Overcome the perhaps<br />
Unwarranted<br />
Fear. After all there are hummers at the feeder, chilly desert dreaming<br /> of
blooming</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
Useless gnashing…bi<br />
Cuspid against canine…other more<br />
Knowing voices soothe<br />
Invoking the inherent reason in<br />
“Not to worry” as a way of<br />
Going forward.</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
Donald sucked<br />
In his fetid breath and spewed forth more inciting rhetoric<br />
Calling spades spades.</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
Keep on the wide straight roads north out of this desert, the<br />
Water of Lake Ontario<br />
Ahead, providing my escape, the<br />
Dollar worth only 75 cents. How lovely.</span></span></div>
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</span></span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-23699627485566147712016-12-10T07:59:00.001-08:002016-12-10T07:59:30.098-08:00JOAN GUENTHER (Toronto)
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>this president-elect
(since you ask)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Y-chromosome</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">of course this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">ultra-rich</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">fascistic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">ugly orange </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">capitalist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">keloid (that’s scar tissue
bub) this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">ignis fatuus marsh gas or
idiot’s delusion this ignorant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">night-soil head or
dung-head or fecal matter head manure head or stool</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> garrotes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">democracy this indecent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">ill-fated </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">cockroach infestation this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">kiss-of-death this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">warlock this wattled
wall-street washrag this waddling warty weak-minded</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span>weasel this</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> weirdo this butt wen this wormy waste of space this</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">avaricious atrocity this
appalling anus of a duplicitous</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">dog this debauchee this
deviant this dissipated drip disease or death rattle this</span></div>
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dreary deranged dark and dirty dog </span></div>
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</span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-63050232369364365922016-12-10T07:52:00.002-08:002016-12-10T08:48:47.848-08:00NATHAN DUECK (Cranbrook, BC)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Lesson for Someday </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">…You’d probably expect that such an event would
start another dark period in our history.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Of course, if that were the case, the title for
this lesson would be much grimmer than “The Last Blip on the Path to Progress.”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Under that sort of regime, it would’ve been easy
for people to lose hope, since</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Fear and despair combined with oppression and
ignorance are breeding grounds for – Yes?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">…Unfortunately, the mechanisms to prevent his
inauguration lacked enough strength to succeed without causing more chaos.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Change is slow in the absence of dramatic events,
as we’ve already seen, but thankfully this particular election proved
sufficient to – Yes? That’s fine, go ahead.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">…Kill him? No, we weren’t that barbaric! You were
paying attention to our previous lessons, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I’d like to get to my point: yes, the twenty-first
century was a time of great uncertainty, but</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">No, the voices of reason weren’t extinguished. No, most
people didn’t fall for the easy distractions, the glib lies, and the hate-filled
rhetoric.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gone was faith in the establishment, perhaps, but
not faith in humanity…</span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Don’t think I missed you rolling your eyes.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It’s easy to sit here in this room and think,
“Clearly it all worked out because we’re still here” and “Clearly things couldn’t
have been that bad, and the old man is just using his gravitas again.”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clearly</i> you’ve forgotten one of the key points about our
history: in the moment, no one knows how things will turn out.</span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Knowing the future has always been beyond our
grasp, and the world back then was much more chaotic than it is now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When we saw those election results roll in, many of
us almost lost hope, at least at first.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And then enough of us spoke up to remind the others
of one of the most important lessons that carried us forward to today:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Do not ever lose hope. Not for an instant.</span></div>
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</span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-25122078771091620562016-12-09T09:42:00.000-08:002016-12-09T09:42:13.029-08:00DARYL JUNG (Iowa, USA)<b>Death by Drumpf</b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yo!
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">O Canada! From</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Under rocks vile Yankees crawl,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Foul with folly, no soul at all.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Undeterred by rhyme or reason</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Consuming rage assails the season,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Keeping fools so blind and dumb.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the White House -- hateful scum.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Not a glint of truth may glisten.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Goddamn rednecks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Direct this show.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Instead of dope we got bad blow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Can I sail aboard this wreck--</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kicked in the head</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">With racist dreck?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Amerikkka, I've had enough of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Death by Drumpf.</span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-49827625692610800982016-12-09T06:23:00.002-08:002016-12-09T06:23:23.239-08:00BRENDA SCHMIDT (Creighton, Sask.)<style>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Yoga, you note, is what real leaders
do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">On boardroom tables</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Uplifting the masses with asses</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Firmly pointed at glass ceilings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Underhanded simply meaning </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Confining the edge with a grip</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Kinky types get off on, so you
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Instead of just sitting there, do the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Nodding and tweeting up a snowstorm </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Governing the climate of each well-</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Dressed cheek accordingly knowing the
chair,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Inert when empty, ergonomic, and
fully adjustable, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Can practically roll from Washington
all the way to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Kansas or Montana with a simple push.
Note: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Will crooked Canada, wherever that
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">All those freeloading snow geese </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Down to do the dead pose in America’s
open pit?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-85747868964509205012016-12-09T06:16:00.004-08:002016-12-09T07:58:20.131-08:00J.M. FRANCHETEAU (Harrow, Ont.)<style>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Augur</b></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yuge and baffling the task before you.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On every principal’s wall, in every post office,</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Under the portrait of Obama, less</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Faded than the surrounding paint, </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unseen, a white space awaits another white face.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Consider Charlemagne, King of Franks, and his<br />
Kingdom that could not outlast his power:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a thousand years, how will your</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Name ring out?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Great again, or a shovelful of worms,</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dented coins of the realm,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Insult hidden in every mention.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Consider your billions in people now, our billions.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Keep quiet a sec: listen to the breaths. This </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We who carry you like a wound includes you;</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And you must include all of us,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dark figures massing at the borders of night.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-85418895615452497432016-12-09T05:36:00.001-08:002016-12-09T05:36:28.027-08:00CHRISTOPHE DAVID BOUCHARD (Bellagio, Las Vegas)<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yankee say, “Go home, fellas, nothing to see here,”<br />Over the braying Bernardistas chanting in Central Park<br />Under a moon alarmingly close to our timorous,<br />Fragile planetoid chockablock with untapped carbon.<br /><br />Unless you hug a polar bear, you can’t imagine the savagery<br />Constant evisceration of the topsoil impinges on<br />Kindred spirits who host other religions in their most<br />Intimate moments, desert hearts inscribed in left-leaning texts.<br /><br />Now, it’s not a question of authority. You have it,<br />Great satchel-jowl sunset-tinged plutocrat, behold!<br />Down to the last dime and demagogue, you go, Sam!<br />Intimacy isn’t something you cultivate. No, you<br /><br />Commercialize it — make it part of the go-home message.<br />Kentucky has its jars too, Tennessee, auburn and succulent.<br />We drink, on your behalf, Manhattans in Manhattan.<br />Absent absinthe and arak, we tumble through this charred swill<br /><br />Down for the last drop too soon to be witnessed. Come with.<br /><br /></span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-84919416782998286812016-12-08T14:20:00.002-08:002016-12-08T14:20:47.543-08:00WARD MAXWELL (Toronto)
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">POTUS Acrostic <br />
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;"><br />
Yea verily <br />
Oh great Orangeness <br />
Uge — you are bigly in all dimensions and things <br />
<br />
Fulminate <br />
Urge us with urgency <br />
Chinese climate change will not stop you <br />
Kick those illegal imbeciles out! <br />
Insure our insurance, say no to Obamacare <br />
Nourish us with branded nourishment <br />
Grow us good <br />
<br />
Disgusting Rosie O’Donnell — total loser <br />
Ignore her, she’s fat <br />
Clowns have failed us <br />
Keep America Great Again<br />
Work tirelessly for nothing because you are very very rich already <br />
Anoint the chosen <br />
Dish out the death penalty to perverts and biased media elites</span></div>
Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-9633119554428052572016-12-08T14:12:00.000-08:002016-12-08T14:12:11.101-08:00LINDA CROSFIELD (Ootischenia, BC)
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">Only the Best
Words Are Good Enough for You</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">You say you’ll
make America terrific; you said so</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">over and over
again. Surely by now you </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">understand how
quickly parties end, how</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">first love
dies, how fires flare and burn, ferocious,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">until nothing
is familiar anymore?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">Chris Hadfield
knew his path when he was nine,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">knew he had to
be an astronaut. When was your first</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">inkling you’d
be the brat who grew up</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">not to be
lauded for floating in space,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">guitar in hand,
singing Bowie, but for </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">dragging a
once-proud nation into a swamp?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">I don’t know
who will speak for us, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">croon away our
worries, soothe our sorrows while you, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">king of kraken,
squire of sordid, overseer of odious,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">write off the
cautious progress we fought so hard for,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">apologia,
politesse and reason being just a few more things you’ll</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia;">drown like
kittens in the trough of your miasma.</span></div>
Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-31324332095131621832016-12-08T12:14:00.001-08:002016-12-09T06:09:10.544-08:00DAVID JAMES BROCK (Toronto)
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Study the universe and reveal the reason optimists<br />stopped
searching, or S.T.U.A.R.T.R.O.S.S.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Yet we look for it with map and torch in every corner:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">our search takes us to new beds, old bars. We look</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">under patriotic rocks and see pill bugs scavenging,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">feeding on their own shit for the copper. So we go</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">underwater, to hot vents where the secrets mount, where</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">copepods thrive in impossible dark. We chase our big</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">kills. Endangered species. Meat. The brag of the
hunt. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s not a freedom we miss, but a loss of comfort</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">near our rarest carcasses. All joy is faux. No</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Gods ever presided. We’re out of little guys to kick.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Don't say we didn't look. We whirled. Old logic</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">implied we'd get what we worked for. That was super</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">childish. We congregated, repeated <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We’ll be okay.</i> We</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">kid ourselves with pep rallies. We leave each other </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">wounded. It was gobbledygook that a common good</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">annuls specific evil. The fables are a typo. Rocks reject
us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Deep, so deep, a squat lobster smiles in its cozy
blindness.</span></span></div>
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</span>Stuart Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541369717980554970.post-59785634462352187502016-12-08T11:11:00.003-08:002016-12-08T12:09:55.679-08:00JACOB McARTHUR MOONEY (Toronto)<style>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Yes. I
understand now that I have misread everything.<br />
Or I have been misread.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Unless
the clutter-stock, the <i>Mad</i> magazines and<br /><i>Forbes</i> annuals and the notes I wrote myself in passing,<br />
Underlined at every passage where I felt the <br />
Civic resolve weaken, unless these were the documents that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Knew me,
all along,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I have
been lied to a little and it looks like I liked it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11.0pt;">New-men, <br />
Going forward,<br />
Don’t condescend to me. <br />
I know my votes were counted. I counted them myself.<br />
Can you crayon an America that doesn’t flex for ruin?<br />
Kingdoms don’t perpetuate their kings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Whatever
will become of us,<br />
At least I’ll remember the dates.<br />
Don’t remind me. I know it will be January always.</span></div>
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