jerry hughes Poems

What's that little blue flower
you've got in your lapel?
A forget me not.
Has somebody forgotten you?
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I have a few friends and I love them.
I've lived long enough to see many of
them die, and I miss them sorely.
They are getting fewer, so I don't read
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They sit in board rooms, or is it bored rooms?
Planning wasteful obsolescence for a consumer
driven global market.
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You are a child born in the womb
of my imagination.
Conceived within myself, shrouded
in words and nurtured like no other.
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Dig a hole, fill it it.
Dig it again, and fill it in.
Jasus, what's the point?
There isn't any point.
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'If thou must love me, let it be for naught
except for love's sake alone.'
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
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'win some lose some'

He was lean and mean,
like the rawhide whip he'd
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Panacea for the worlds ills.

Chicken soup in America.
'Mr President, the twin-towers
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I knew a lad who grew up believing
his name was 'naughty boy.'
Thirty years later he came home,
shot his wife and three children,
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