Saiom Shriver Poems

JBO said she would not
fly that particular airline because
the culture was so authoritarian
an assistant pilot would rather
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Do agnostics
like acrostics?
Do theists focus
on the One?
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Once termites bored
a hole in the holly
on the hill
Now a gnawing holocaust
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Scattering pinecones
in the wildwood whirl
...crunchy food
for the squirrels
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CALIFORNIA
30,000 baby chicks
were sent through a San Diego
factory farm chipper
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With words so brief
he described the grief
of the monstrous way
cows become beef
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She picked up only vacant seashells
at the shores of the Seychelles.
For chambered nautili hollow
were minnows' castles in the shallows
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More and more
in holy Budapest
they see
like the Buddha
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As perfume
pours from
petaled peony blooms
so fragrance still
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Tens of thousands crucified... Christians fed to lions...
slavery...gladiators killing each other for public amusement
emperors deifying themselves...a culture of hedonism..
animal sacrifice.. the eating of peacock tongues..
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