Monthly Archives: November 2020

Our Sweethearts

Posted on November 20, 2020 by sputterpub

My family is mostly male, and yetincludes no evidence of gross assaultor rape, or coarse behavior to forget.What tension we perpetuate’s the faultof neither sex. The girls exhibit morebad moods, more snits and flouncing tendencies.The boys are strong and masculine … Continue reading →

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Booster

Posted on November 19, 2020 by sputterpub

Eight months ago, when house arrest began,I tried to learn to only touch my faceat home alone and clean. My hygiene planinvolved increasing time inside my place,enduring masking when around a manor woman I don’t know, and no embracebeyond my … Continue reading →

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Yay for the Blue Team

Posted on November 18, 2020 by sputterpub

Like any proper toddler, he wants cleardistinctions: black & white and solid lines.Our task as guides is showing him our sphereis not that neat. Existence intertwines,and boundaries are artificial walls.Maturing means we live with shades of gray.Accepting rites, obeying protocols,make … Continue reading →

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‘Lection Lessons

Posted on November 17, 2020 by sputterpub

I felt so humbled as I watched returns,accepting that I hadn’t any clueto how the half who voted for him work.I’ve failed to feel and write someone who spurnsthe facts for magic thinking, and the truefor Puritan simplistic blue-law murk. … Continue reading →

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Irrelevant

Posted on November 16, 2020 by sputterpub

Irrelevant is how he’s been to me,a would-be bully powered on hot air.He’s had four years of free publicitywhile wasting us. Nobody now should careabout the raves, his lies, conspiracy,or any argument for playing fair.Please join me in ignoring him … Continue reading →

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BDTR

Posted on November 15, 2020 by sputterpub

Remember Better Dead Than Red?We used to hear the line a lotwhen we were young and war was not,when Communism pulled aheadand battles waged were Cold instead.Well that was long ago. The Wallis gone. Some thought we’d won it all,but … Continue reading →

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RSS

Posted on November 14, 2020 by sputterpub

I wake on Saturdays away from home,so if I’m to maintain my posting streakof publishing a daily lockdown poem,then Friday’s my occasion, every week,to schedule the meter in advance.But I mistrust the algorithm’s deeds.I long to give my verse at … Continue reading →

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Estranged

Posted on November 13, 2020 by sputterpub

I fail to understand, although I’ve tried,why millions of my countrymen supporta leader with no compass, who can’t guide,who won’t seek any wisdom or resortto knowledge, education, open mind,or building bridges virtual or real.I leave attempted empathy behind –today I … Continue reading →

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Foreknowledge

Posted on November 12, 2020 by sputterpub

“I know what you’re about to say to me.”My father’d interrupt with words like thosewhen we grew heated. Furious I’d be,but almost stopped, amazed at how he choseto interact, predicting wrong, and closethe gate to any chance to understandhis daughter, … Continue reading →

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Shining You On

Posted on November 11, 2020 by sputterpub

When things keep happening that boggle me,between myself and one I dearly love,when doors are slammed and chairs are shoved, and weappear to live on different worlds, aboveall else I want to talk the problem out,but if my interlocutor resists,and … Continue reading →

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