Poem – Limits (By Gary Beck)

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Limits   You promised in front of a priest to love, honor, cherish. Then you started gambling,   When you lost you started drinking. The more you lost, the more you drank.   You came home drunk, yelled and cursed at me. I had to help you to bed, but you hit me.   Then you started beating me. I […]

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Poem – DEAR JOHN (By Frank De Canio)

Dear John (the Sophie to Der Rosenkavalier) By Frank De Canio Just like the Marschallin had been resigned to cede her lover to the ingénue to whom his heart would later be inclined, so Marietta’s mistress bade adieu to her so that her “Quinquin” could pursue no younger woman but a different sex than formerly she’d been accustomed to. Perhaps […]

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Poem – HOTAND COLD (By Ray Gallucci)

  HOTAND COLD   Perhaps 100million years To rise from naught, then disappear Above the Hot Spot in the Earth That to Hawaiian Chain gave birth.   The oldest now perhaps just stumps, Once mountains proud, now merely bumps Long passed from magma cauldron where They first broke through the surface there.   The youngest rise majestically For miles above […]

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