O Anna Niemus Poems

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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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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Carpe Diem
they said
as they carpe'd Diem.
Like all beings
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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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Have you seen a cockroach's face
as he turns potato chips.. into lace

as he, guru of simplicity
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