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Monday, 4 September 2017

UXB Frankfurt

Over seventy two years I lay

Buried where you dropped me

With a defective fuse,

Until builders came

To uncover my fragility;

A familiar occurrence

In this land of hidden memories

Still claiming the lives

Of those who risk all

To prevent destruction.

Tomorrow they will move people

From dwellings, the opera house

And even a bank where gold

Reserves are stored

Hoping to make me safe;

Then slowly people will return

To continue living

On this violated soil

That conceals so many

Not yet ready to return

To the old stability.

David lives in Wales (UK) where he was born of Italian roots. He studied at the University of Liverpool and has 4 published collections of his English Language poetry: First Cut (2012), Hiding in Shadows (2014), Not Really a Stranger (2016) and A Terrible Beauty (2016) as well as a collection in Welsh: Eglwys Yng Nghremona (2016).

Sunday, 3 September 2017

Sunday 'Shorts'

Letter to My Cousins

Dear Munchkins, just to keep you posted.

I wore #Target, #Walmart, and #Payless today.

I went on a shopping spree at Acme, got there

in our ten-year-old Chevy with “Keep Ohio Lovely”

and smiling emoji stickers on the rear bumper.

Spent $21.15 on Cheerios, skim milk and two-for-one

packs of chicken parts and ground beef.

In the check-out line ahead of me, a platinum blonde

bragged to her iPhone how she’d been cast

as a African princess. Aw shucks the scene got cut.

Hey, we spent two glorious weeks in August

traveling from Canton to Little Rock

in our new reconditioned RV. Love, Loretta Sue

Louise Linton: What to know about Steve Mnuchin's wife

Nancy is author of nine books of poetry. Many of her poems deal with social justice issues.
She resides in New Jersey, USA, www.nancyscott.net

So Donald Said to Harvey…

“Well, you have may limited rotating concentric powers—so sad—

but, please get this, Mr. Rabbit, I am King through election,

and that gives me the sole power to forgive a man

who wasn’t guilty in the first place because we need to get

rid of those people who aren’t white and with us…

to enhance my standing with others who love me, and make them happy!”

Hurricane Harvey Makes Landfall Near Corpus Christi, Tex.

Trump Pardons Joe Arpaio, Who Became Face of Crackdown on Illegal Immigration

Kay Weeks is a retired historic preservation professional who lives in Oella, Ellicott City, Maryland— she paints and writes and shares.

even more fun if

even more fun if, in the future, these abused youngsters
send old Tory money grubbers down t' pit with only a candle for light and a plastic hat to keep em from harm should the scraping o' the shit shovel bring th' whole cavern crashing
upon em . . .

Tory peer says Brexit is good because young people will be able to work longer hours

Philip's work includes hard copy published by: Poetry Now, Anchor Poets, North West Disabled Writers Group, Das Alchemy, The Ugly Tree; Poetry Scotland, Mid Cheshire Writers Group, Cheshire Carers Centre Newsletter, National Assc for Colitis & Crohn's Disease newsletters, local, regional and a national newspaper.

Electronic Formats: Write Away, Caught In The Net, The Red Pencil, and The Writer's Hood, Transparent Words; Caught In The Net