On The Fast Track

Stepping onto train,
picked leaflet from off the floor
-think future career!

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Suffer The Children #2

Child came up to me,
She held out her hand and spoke
-her eyes though, her eyes....

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Suffer The Children

Child stares out from page,
Sad eyes of the world's starving
-no child left behind?

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Child's Last Day

You looked up at me,
Holding that big paper bag
-bursting with treasures:
the blue blanket you napped on
and all the artwork you made.

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The Bottom Line

Execs get bailouts,
Company outsources jobs
-then toast their success.

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Slow Going

Looked at g.p.s.
Jam at intersection
-no way but through it.

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One Single Impression: Intersections

Last Frontier

Last day tommorrow,
No more pressure for deadlines,
-sail into sunset.

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Paradise Lost

For fifty long years,
El jefé built paradise
-many escaped on rafts.

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No Way Out

While xeroxing docs,
She felt boss behind her
-no way to exit.

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Evil Eye

From newspaper page,
Accused felon glowers out
-appears in nightmares.

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For The Love Of Life

News Item: abortion provider shot while in church (Boston Globe 6/21/09, p.2)

Bang! psalm reading ends,
Doctor murdered in a church
-life lover's pistol.

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Cruel Cuts

Staffer cuts paper,
From wholes, to halves, to quarters
-upstairs, boss cuts jobs.

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