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For all the times
I made you ill at ease,
for all the times
I showed up unannounced,
for all the foolish things
I did to please you,
all those times
you felt your boundaries trounced,
I..."
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Father and sons"
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A blind man told me
what he thought of sight.
“As if you open up a Russian doll
and place each front to back.
If you have light,
the near one's big.
The farthest one is small."
We learn from..."
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I'm not sure you'll get this.
I'm not sure I care.
As if you care!
Who knows!
This is just to tell you that
I broke that dish
You gave me years ago.
I'm sure you know the one.
How..."
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The Domestic Debate
By Reid Baer
The focus group facilitator said
“lie” was too strong a word
and turned the folks
against the user
She convinced me
I was the abuser
in our marriage ..."
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We shoved off.
I took starboard,
you took port and rudder,
I the jib.
The rising sail puffs proudly,
slackens then inhales in sport.
Will we have
shifting gusts or calm or gale?
Above the..."
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Now, I usually just make silly YouTube videos, but I felt compelled to make this poem while my fiancee was out of town."
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The ship boards creak. The rigging sings
And down my cheeks stream mist and spray.
My breath grows fast. My knees feel weak.
As fate speeds me away.
Her eyes, her lips become her face.
The..."
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I stared and thought,
“How small, how strange, how plain."
Details my memory
knew so well and
took so often,
never stopping to retain.
I felt a fool
and yet I had to look.
What I beheld
I..."
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Not just a game
(a test of patience,
skill,
a chance for us
to scratch our heads
and rap our fingers)
It was fun.
Oh what a thrill,
surprised and satisfied,
to hear that snap.
No..."
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