Danny Draper Poems

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71.
I Could Not Sleep

Your room at first
near perfect dark,
you breathe in sleep.
Diffuse light blurs
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72.
Silent Call (For Maurice)

In the hum between beast and machine
At rest on bunk too awake to dream
Whale voices clear and clean
Pinged the wall of the submarine
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73.
It Will Soon Be Summer In Australia

Tacit, the long spent day
dragged gently searing breath's
vacant lilting pulse, drawn
stumbling aching being,
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74.
A Message To Proselytizers

Feebly, I have resisted a desire for public discourse on
Utterances of beliefs held sacred and private, and
Can't reason why I'd ever succumb to your
Kind entreats to enter commune,
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75.
Cat On Hat

I would not wear my old spats
so long as I had cat on hat,
We'd step in puddles water splat
but high and dry is cat on hat,
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76.
Ollimpricks

Five links of a broken chain, whose
Fragments trail from Mount Olympus where
Naked bodies gleamed in olive oil,
Athletic glory, its own reward 
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77.
We Are All Equal

We are all equal.
Universal self-evident truth,
validated without resources.
This inalienable right is not a commodity
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78.
The New Class Losses 

Just like the opulence of Roman fame,
With conquered lives abound' from coast to coast;
Here our unwashed, ingrates shall stand before 
All mighty corporates with blow torch, whose flame
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79.
To My Sarah

Seldom do we have together
As much time as I crave,
Rhyme and reason empty nests
And no sooner looms the grave, but
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80.
Curse Of Empire (Inspired By A Cree Prophecy)

When all the children mature in fear and ignorance
When all essence of nature is expunged and despoiled
When all that was good is unsound and despised
When all solemn trust has been sacrificed to avarice,
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