O Anna Niemus Poems

It pains those who love animals
and Mother Earth to hear prayers
in a Catholic Mass for
'the human family'. Is it time
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The Babe lay in a manger,
a recessed animals' food table
in a stable
surrounded by animals who sought shelter from the cold, Some time later He would be worshipped by Iranian astrologiers called Magi or wise men,
...

She walked out of the marriage
after some years..
and slipped out of the green coat
of jealousy
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Trucking living lobsters often entails
their freezing and smashing, losing claws and tails.
Coprophagous shellfish eat the products
of others' entrails.
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Some drink themselves to sleep
Some eat themselves to dreamy deeps
Some take prescriptions toxic in their effects.
Some read to make their eyes tired
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It was the church which could not
fix its roof, so much of its money was
spent on the homeless, through
which roof hole the light of God
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