Steven Shoemaker

Remember last year how
Easy it was to shear
Some inches off your rear?
Or spend less than you make?
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She cleans the floor.
(I clean the ceiling.)
She washes dishes.
(I clean my plate.)
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We walk the rows of silent trees,
some smell of resin, some of lime
or lemon- six varieties.
Young families rush, we take our time,
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The Donkey

The coats the folks are throwing down
sure make it hard for me to walk
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She was impressed I knew a bit
about music and spoke of art
that I had seen in galleries.
I took a class, Art History,
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Invitations once came in the post,
Now emails & voicemails are lost
Amid FaceBook & Twitter,
In Texts & e-clutter:
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The year was 1965,
and Mrs. J was 65,
and she had never learned to drive.
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How does the tendril sense
a post is near? How does
it know to wrap clockwise?
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