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How to raise kids you can be truly proud of
I’m sure you want really good kids. Or you love someone else’s kids and want them to be good. Here’s a poem which I hope helps you. HOW TO RAISE KIDS YOU CAN BE TRULY PROUD OF The first step is to try having sex. This won’t work for everybody, however. Some have bodies which…
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Lost – a poem about the crippling power of loneliness
LOST Sitting down to feast on bread baked with aromatic spices with a salad topped with vinegar and oil, a pasta perhaps or lamb roasted to a crisp skin but a center so tender it slides off as you pick up the bone, and the wine oh the wine! it flows and the bottles…
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Love Songs Ain’t Cool
LOVE SONGS AIN’T COOL We staged an Anti-Valentine’s Day poetry reading twenty years ago, with all the seriousness of the jilted and the cool of a grunge beatnik, flannel-draped and too intense for snaps. It was all so black and white, our lives, our words the only true responses: laugh or cry. “I refuse to…
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A Country of Four-Year-Olds
A COUNTRY OF FOUR-YEAR-OLDS I sometimes feelthat the only wayto understand my countryis to be a parent. I live in a landfor which the response“because I can”is a valid argumentand “because I said so”works just as wellto dissuade; where freedom is moreimportant than community,until we get hurt. Today my son is crankybecause his MeeMee and…
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Dry, Clean, Secure
an ode to Wild Goose There is nothing quite like a shower and a fresh pair of underwear.
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Christian Love is Pornographic
AMERICAN CHRISTIAN PORN STARS or Christian Love is Pornographic We appeal to tradition but Sola Scriptura. We appeal to history but not institutions. We appeal to clear readings but not readings which are clear to me. We appeal to Jesus but not his followers. We appeal to creation but not the world. We appeal to…
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Insane Consequences
INSANE CONSEQUENCES When did we justify brutality? A desk flipped with a student still in it, grabbed, hair pulled and thrown against the floor because apparently refusing to listen is enough of a reason to bring violence into the classroom. A shoplifter shot at in the parking lot. A police call to a Target a…
