Francie Lynch Poems

When setbacks happen,
I get on with life.
If I didn't make the cut,
I moved on;
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Take your Seven Deadly Sins,
And butcher them with punctuation.

Capitalize on floods, famines and fires.
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Just picked up my umpteenth pair of glasses
(You might know them as eye glasses) .
Progressive, photo-chromatic, temples with wrap around cables.
Same round frames since I was sixteen (first saw them in 'How I Won the War') .
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The Little King,
Who ruled here for thirteen years,
Now reigns in the 'undiscovered country.'
Restrictions keep him in the freezer, for now,
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I don't believe the sky is blue on a sunny day.
I don't believe the water's wet while dripping on my deck.
I don't believe in puppies, even as they nip.
I don't believe in the air I breathe as I call out for help.
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I am part of your smile today.
I might be in the curl of your lip,
In the corner glint of your eyes;
Or the concave of a dimple.
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Many of the world's greatest Leaders throughout our tumultuous history have;
Many ofthe insightful Revolutionaries in stink hole and glory hole countries have;
Many of the oppressed, disenfranchised and cheated also have.
Look to Lenin, Mandela, Gandi, Nehru, Havel, Bhutto, Ceausescu, Charles I, Papadopoulos, Lady Jane Grey, Louis XVI, Marcos, Milosevic, a pile of Mohameds, Mussolini, Nicholas II, Pinochet, Saddam, Marie Antoinette, Pope Clement V, Selassie, Baghdadi, Duvalier, and, let's not forget the author of Mien Kampf, Adolph the Tenderizer.
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These are images that once were
Like tan lines stretching across your shoulder;
Like starlight from some supernova;
Your photos in my albums;
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There's good reason to forget infant memory.
Too many colours, sounds, and faces back then.
My upsets were soothed with a soft hand and a healing kiss.
It wouldn't be fair to compare,
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