Harlan Simantel Poems

i like the simple things
life has to offer.
ordinary pleasures
that I don't have to spend for.
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I like neatness,
order,
simplicity.
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God is my 'Shrink'
i tell him all i think
feelings too
from my interior zoo
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thru successive centuries
technology improves
while war and crime
depressingly continues
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Viagra is a remedy for those
with a certain flaccid defection.
If you're a guy and need a rise
You'll enjoy a long-term erection.
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a gift of skill,
a calling,
a passion,
is life's quiet thrill
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we poets are generally a serious lot
our rhymes and lines erupt from deep thought
recalling life's battles we've scrapped and fought
often feel trapped by life, or hopelessly caught
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i'm fond of any smart or amusing quote
what some clever wit wrote
the nugget lights up my brain
and for a moment i'm wiser again
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i knew wisdom
but didn't do wisdom
thought smart, did dumb
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