WAS THAT THE WIND????
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Howling outside, amid Spring-time sun,
Sounds like a winter windy blast
Whipping ’round the building with Spring-time here at last,
Strikes an awful note that it’s not done!
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Hearing this howl is like a sudden warning
New England weather changes frequently…
Our second spring cold snap to cover up the flowers,
Warmer weather’s due eventually!!!!
–Jonathan Caswell
WHY ARE FASHION BLOGGERS SO YOUNG?
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Young women it seems to me’
Blog fashion plentifully,
Is most fashion sold
Aimed not at the old,
What’s the answer to this mystery?
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Older models fill the pages
Of magazines for wages…
Is it that the young
Find it more fun,
To model for their own ages?
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Whatever, I’m glad they are there,
E’en though I don’t have their hair (!)…
New fashions may
Come my wife’s way,
Which shows her that I care!
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–Jonathan Caswell
PAIN-STABBED PIGGIES
Up at this hour to foil
Pain with aromatic oil…
In between piggies
Sharp ones and biggies,
Throbbing but not from toil.
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Putting it on in the dark,
I feel it drip down to park…
On the other leg,
I sure would beg
It to stay where put, though in the dark.
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As pain slowly fades away
Took insulin early today…
At four AM
I’ll say an amen
If this pain goes away!
–Jonathan Caswell
HE’S MAKING IT PERSONAL
(Political and religious opinion piece)
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Today’s “ISRAEL NOW NEWS”
Reported our President’s views…
Unhidden by slant
We hear his rant
Denying survival rights to Jews.
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His “white boy”–namely Biden,
Put on notice the Jews he was riding…
To look to Israel
To find survival,
No longer by America’s deciding.
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Presidents flipping birds
To Israeli leader’s words…
Immaturity
And absurdity
Like little boys flipping dog turds!
–Jonathan Caswell
CREATIVE COMBINATIONS
(From A dream?)
One against three or two,
How does one know what to do…
A fevered pitch
Drops a stitch,
One less working–boo-hoo!
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Several combine as one,
Knowing by heart what’s done…
Sounds like a breeze,
Becomes a tight squeeze
When the word race is won.
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Not sure what to do?
Will set things up for you!
Summon a meme,
Float that trireme*
Just when you’re feeling blue!
–Jonathan Caswell
* A trireme…afloat!
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BY HIS FINGERNAILS
(If he has any left.)
His long ordeal seems done,
The battle with amputation almost won…
But occurence
Of ending insurance,
Worries his future to come.
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Received a continuance letter
Which helped him feel somewhat better…
Answers come slow
By snail-mail you know,
But his social worker–he’s glad to have met her.
–Jonathan Caswell
RESPONSE TO AN ANGRY YOUNG BLACK MAN
This white poet grieves
With an angry young man who sees…
Little attention
Given to mentioned
Leaders in Black histories.
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The media seems to ignore
Contributions made before…
Making short shrift
Of history’s gift,
Black leaders who came to the fore.
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This poet studied college
Historic Blacks, the knowledge…
Of whom valued
Knowledge renewed,
Yearly could be acknowledged.
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But what can one man do,
News media wants the new…
Our Black President,
White House resident,
The only Black leader to view?
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Are there other Black leaders out there,
Currently for whom we could care…
Who charge to the fore,
Making more
Progress that Blacks may share?
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Glories all from the past,
Those great leaders will last…
These great minds–
Do we inherit in kind–
Other folks of similar cast?
–Jonathan Caswell
DEFLATION-GATE
Was this year’s Superbowl fair
‘Cause some footballs lacked air…
I hadn’t known
Each team had their own,
Was some form of sabotage there?
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I’d known temperature affects
Air pressure applied to specs…*
News channel surveys
Found little notice made,
Between football suspects.
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To say this made advantageous
Patriot play is outrageous…
Even Brady inferred
Full pressure preferred,
But team play, anyway, was efficacious!
–Jonathan Caswell
PAPERWORK YETI
Avoiding an avalanche
That would make a yeti blanche…
Piles booby-trapped
Frustration uncapped,
Let’s go for some apple betty!
–Jonathan Caswell
THE GREAT AMERICAN “IF”
You’ve seen them on TV,
Sales pitches made legally…
“IF” this were true
We’ll sell this to you
In spite of reality.
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Antennas for digital broadcasts,
Outside of cable–in the past?
I heard they’re scrambled
Yet the guy’s ambled
Up, selling his antennas fast!
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It’s that old legendary
Yankee trader: be wary…
Nutmegs from trees
So buy these, please,
(Only wood–that offer is scary)!
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Are these antennas any good?
The simulated picture would…
Suggest that it’s so
But I don’t know,
If the signals are scrambled…what would?
–Jonathan Caswell
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