Ima Ryma Poems

I teach a college course on ghosts.
A graduate student, I am,
Not given to a lot of boasts,
But students flock to my program.
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I like to hit below the belt,
Rejuvenate as in his past,
How in his youth, how it had felt.
I am popped to make his now last.
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'Tis the 21st century.
Time will tell in the exact year,
The Earth feels its worst tragedy.
Humanity is gripped in fear.
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Abortion is killing of life
Of a human being conceived,
Whether because of love or strife.
Unnatural crime - tiz believed.
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Billions of human beings live
In habitat of time and space.
Whatever life does take and give,
Each human connects to a place,
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Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's child,
With the numbers made poetry.
By computing, she was beguiled.
Computer programmer was she,
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She went aboard the ship, first class.
While on board she became concerned
That if disaster came to pass,
Too few lifeboats by count she learned.
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'If I did not laugh, I should die, '
Abe Lincoln was said to have said
To his Cabinet as to why
An amusing book he had read
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Young black men in the U.S.A.
Are profiled by society,
Just because they are born that way.
It always was, always will be.
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We, cougars, have found ways to stay
In and amongst where humans be,
Cuz humans have a nasty way
Of acting up so bizarrely.
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