Tom J. Mariani Poems

I took off my glasses
that I might see
I took off my shoes
that I might be
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What does one do
If one finds oneself
Suffering the symptoms
Of being a poet?
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What was it about October
That made us think
Spring would not be coming back?
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Had the grandkids overnight
Dinner baths and do homework
Before TV - - - their Mom said
Before TV
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Oh
No
Sop
Go
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We wanted to watch
Them sing and dance
Yet no one would hire them
Out of SF's Chinatown
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copyright 04-21-08
for single-parent urban Moms
Happy Mother's Day
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I keep seeing people who should be dead
They're not be in the morgue yet
I don't see why
What is keeping them moving breathing
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'So what's there
That's not right here?

What's this about
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