Stanley Cooper Poems

DRILL BABY DRILL
“Oh-oh say can you see”
Any beach-sand oil free
This pollution debris
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The thawing loss of polar ice
Should suffice
For us to heed Chicken Littles fear
That our end may be very near
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Visit a neighborhood drug store
Or your local Pharmacy
Where they’ll have you spending less for more
‘Cause all side-effects are free
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Our language, borrowed from the British nation
Includes the use of verbal conjugation
But we find it detrimental
The Brits are so judgmental
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Never-mind the why and wherefore”
Bush’s logic I don’t care for
He’s logically quite doltish
I most humb-il-ly submit
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Inadvertent…a hell of a word
As the subject for a poem
It’s a word that’s rarely heard
In a poem, much less a tome
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There are very many ologies
Scientific, with few exceptions
Psych, Bi, and Physi-ology
Worthy of scientists attention
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Before Computers, we dinosaurs
With no e-bay, we shopped in stores

We often sat around and talked
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There’s something about a female
That brings out the best in me
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They came to our shores, crossed most of our borders
Illegally, immorally bearing hate and disorder
They were not at all like us, not of our ethnic
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