O Anna Niemus Poems

While billionaire bankers are causing freezing deaths from evictions
neocon utilities are causing
suicide deaths, carbon monoxide deaths, freezing deaths and fire deaths as utilities
are shut off with the full compliance of the Bush regime for which McCain
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Where former foes each other forgive
and become faithful friends
is the most hallowed ground
of all
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The toddler clings to and hides
behind his mother's leg
as a nonswimmer hangs on
to the pillars of a pier
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There are 58,000 names on the Vietnam
War Memorial.... the American poor
sent off to war by the pawns of the rich.
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Because a cow eats corn instead of a human being
does not make the corn 'feed' instead of 'food'.

Is that not rude?
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Thank you Johnny Appleseed
Because of you
the world is more treed.
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We are all creatures of the age into
which we were born.
Eisenhower let millions of Russians
die fighting the Nazis in 1942 and 1943.
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