Foreigner Poems

The world is full of women
who'd tell me I should be ashamed of myself
if they had the chance. Quit dancing.
Get some self-respect
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I like Canadians.
They are so unlike Americans.
They go home at night.
Their cigarettes don't smell bad.
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I love you baby
Deep from the core
Of my humble heart
Life would not be the same
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There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges,
Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies.
I don't mean the kind of apologies people make when they run over you or borrow five dollars or step on your feet,
Because I think that is sort of sweet;
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Foreigners are people somewhere else,
Natives are people at home;
If the place you’re at
Is your habitat,
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Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere
(Horace, Epistles II.i.267)
While you, great patron of mankind, sustain
The balanc'd world, and open all the main;
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Besides this May
We know
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BOOK I

Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide
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I
When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter,"
And proved it--'twas no matter what he sald:
They say his system 'tis in vain to batter,
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By this part of the century few are left who believe
in the animals for they are not there in the carved parts
of them served on plates and the pleas from the slatted trucks
are sounds of shadows that possess no future
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(Non-commissioned Officers in Charge of Prisoners)


When by the labor of my 'ands
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'There sinks the nebulous star we call the Sun,
If that hypothesis of theirs be sound'
Said Ida; 'let us down and rest;' and we
Down from the lean and wrinkled precipices,
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I am unique, an irreplaceable human being.
The first me and the last.
I am God's creature, no one will ever replace me.
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Caesar, the amplifier voice, announces
Crime and reparation. In the barber shop
Recumbent men attend, while absently
The barber doffs the naked face with cream.
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Steep up in Lubitavish townland stands
A ring of great stones like fangs, the shafts of the stones
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If from great nature's or our own abyss
Of thought we could but snatch a certainty,
Perhaps mankind might find the path they miss--
But then 'twould spoil much good philosophy.
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Immeasurable Earth!
Through the loud vast and populacy of Heaven,
Tempested with gold schools of ponderous orbs,
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History of Old Rome by Theodor Mommsen.
Let's begin from its origins.
The mortgages did notexist.
The wife had her husband and did not belong to the State.
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Thus from a mixture of all kinds began,
That het'rogeneous thing, an Englishman:
In eager rapes, and furious lust begot,
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After Joseph Roth

Parce que c'était lui; parce que c'était moi.
Montaigne, De L'amitië
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I am waiting for,
When will my foreigner wife come
From foreign,
Evenings have descended and flown away,
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Kisna,
Where you Kisna,
My Kisna,
Kisna? ,
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A foreigner,
A foreigner girl,
Where are you going,
Going, my love,
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Foreigner Radha,
Foreigner Krishna,
i saw it at ISKCON Mela?
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WHO IS THE FOREIGNER
Poem by Chan Mongol
June 28 of 2020
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My mother never fit in.She was a foreigner that stayed a foreigner.
Always looking out of place between the corn and the hogs.
Dad was a mechanic that belonged.
He plucked a foreign flower, in a foreign land,
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Bright Lover and Avenger
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth
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The ISKCON Temple

ISKCON Temple,
The Temple of Love,
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