Trump said most recently,
Congress must see reality…
Force their spending
Like ours–unending,
Without taxpayer subsidy!
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Republicans want to give up,
Business as usual stuff…
THEIR coffers full–
Why should they pull
For anyone when they’re ensured enough?
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Check what I said earlier*
FEW POLITICIANS are pure…
Blind to our needs
While their guarantees,
Set them up royally for sure!
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–Jonathan Caswell
*See my poem FIRESSTORM MATERIAL–POLITICAL, posted earlier today.
*(From this Header Image Randomized File)
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As by election she’s gone,
Blog administrators move on…
Needed space
For the poet’s face,
And his wife–picnicking on the lawn!
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And which would he rather see–
Clinton or industry…?
His options voiced
And made his choice,
Mrs. Clinton, you are now “free”.
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Have you seen the poet’s new hat,
Fake beard and all of that…?
Come again
Let the images run,
And maybe in time, you’ll see that!
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–Jonathan Caswell
He knows what the guys go through,
He once helped run steam trains too…
One more run–
A little more fun–
Before the season is through!
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For us, little Number Twelve,*
An oh-four-oh “T” to delve…
Into steam
Locomotion…the dream
Of a lifetime…where we dwelt.
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That EVERETT two-six-oh,
Is a proud steamer we know….
Dimunitive survivor
With dainty drivers,
“Just one more run…before the heavy snow?”
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🙂
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–Jonathan Caswell
*Number Twelve, running back and forth on a siding at the Flemingville, NY , station site. I stunk as a fireman shoveling coal…so I ran the little engine under supervision of the “old heads”(experienced railroad men).
Pasta with home-baked beans,
A way to combine proteins…
Producing less gas
The combined repast,
All he needs is to eat more greens!
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He went too fast in food stoking,
Stopping for a fit of choking…
Must better chew
His food or it’s true,
He’ll require some life-saving poking!
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If one is deceased and they ask it,
What made him choke his last fit…
Pasta and beans
Were the fatal means,
With which he was put in a casket!
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–J.E.C.
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IMAGE: http://www.timigustafson.com
Birthday cards received none,
Hardly anyone…
From family or friends
Justified ends,
He’s driven away every one?
(A recurring theme poem.)
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High School folks pushed away
Ignored to this day…
He drove out
Anyone stout
Enough to stay!
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Family’s been ignored,
Conflicts are left unrestored…
Gave up trying
And no use crying
About what went by the board.
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Doesn’t keep good friends long,
Never opening up for long…
Self-inflicted
And indicted
Guilt without association!
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Restored connections who,
Are from his past, very few…
Sees what he’s done–
It’s no fun–
Not much now can he do.(?)
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–j.e.c.
It is a mystery
Just how he gets past me…
When I’m in the rest room
He must outward zoom,
His exit I rarely see!
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Sometimes his office door’s closed,
That he’s gone, I suppose…
Then he appears
Swift for his years,
Man, how his legend grows!
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Appearing out of nowhere,
Employees must use care…
He’s apt to catch
A foolish wretch,
Doing what he shouldn’t dare.
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–Jonathan Caswell
PERMANENT SLAVE CLASS
(An economic opinion)
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Raising the Minimum wage?
The “Progressive’s” constant rage…
You will not progress
Because of largess,
The Liberals have you caged!
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Do you want to do this for life?
Letting those in power knife…
Your improvement
Of yourself–that went–
You’re being kept down for their strife!
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Why is a President proud,
Of increased violent crowds?
While he plays
Golf most days,
Partying often and loud?
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It’s because he basks in power,
Liberal prospects tower…
Deceive you they will
And send you the bill,
And if you question–glower!
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I really wish I could side
On the other political divide…
But conservatives too
Want goodies from you,
Watching their vowed principles slide!
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Opportunities are out there,
Be real–stop beating the air–
Striving break free
Of given slavery,
If you won’t save yourself—who really cares?
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Lucky to get a full-time, TAKE IT,
Work really hard to make it…
Caught at the bottom
Prospects are rotten,
Your human dignity–RETAKE IT!!!
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–Jonathan Caswell
(An opinion piece)
THE CASHIER’S LAMENT
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The third shift cashier at PRICE CHOPPER explained
That soon that would close for stocking shelves the same…
But shoppers could not come in anymore!
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Her really liked his job and difficult for another,
His customers were nice, treating him like a brother…
But his sad news he must tell.
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Seems the corporate entity of PRICE CHOPPER *has changed,
“MARKET 32” is he newly changed name…
And his store won”t open third shift anymore!
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I nearly cried with Michael–his last name I forget,
He’s thinking of protesting–losing his job faster yet…
There’s not much one can do!
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–Jonathan Caswell
PRICE CHOPPER is a grocery store chain originating in Amsterdam, New York State, spreading into New England…where the author is.
WANTED CLOSE COMMUNICATING!
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The problem was both had hurts,
Committed by trousers and skirts…
Commitment to trust
Gathered rust,
Both thought the other curt.
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Walls and grudges build
Despite commitments to yield…
Many a marriage
Is disparaged,
By combat in the field.
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Obvious one doesn’t understand,
The other’s health demands…
One bends over,
The other takes over
And pushes one into badlands.
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The verbose one wonders why
The silent one won’t try
to open
As they’re hoping,
To fill them in bye-and-bye.
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The silent one’s thoughts run sarcastic,
The other one listens to drastic…
And half the time
Is not so inclined,
They both fall into that basket!
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–Jonathan Caswell
SKITTERING–SKITTERING!
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Halloween’s coming,
SKITTERING, SKITTERING!
Creatures running…
SKITTERING, SKITTERING!
Roadways littered
With leaves skittered,
Ghosts are coming…
SKITTERING, SKITTERING!
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–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 