Percy Dovetonsils Poems

you
at the Front Porch
slurping your soup
and making blazing
...

The Repigs
have stepped up
their game
and won't relent
...

I sympathized
with Mr Spence,
the driving instructor,
who had dual controls
...

Her beauty sneaks up on you
and is compounded
of knowing wisdom, compassion,
wit,
...

O Tax Cut! Your Tax Cut!

O Tax Cut! your Tax Cut! its fearful trip is done,
The heist has weather'd every rack, the prize you sought is won,
...

First he came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out, or spoke too quietly-
Because I was not an immigrant.

Then he came for the Muslims, and I did not speak out, or at least, did not speak loudly enough—
...

It's midnight
December 31st;
the park down the street
is exploding.
...

I've got
one month
to get rid
of my books
...

Polar bears
are one of our
newest species,
newer than man,
...

This language,
English,
will always be
alien
...