https://poets.org/national-poetry-month/poem-your-pocket-day I started doing this in 2012 and it's always fun (for me, anyway)
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When I was a kid in the 1970s When there were two types of gas a… Regular and Unleaded. The Unleaded kind cost more, So most people used Regular inste…
Assholes in traffic A Chicago fact of life They need to drive, too
An eerie silence has descended over the places where constant activity once reigned. Construction will no longer occur now that undocumented workers
We love and we laugh On this earthly voyage, Circling around the sun For an unknown period of time. The only thing we truly know
Our sense of comfort in existing s… Cannot be denied, and yet There’s always something more out… Just beyond our comfort zones. Do we dare to seek it out?
Their dad was taking them to Disn… Because he loved them so much And wanted to make them happy. But when that morning arrived And the plane was waiting for them…
Billowing clouds swirl below While a pale yellow sunlight fringes the horizon. The fury of last night’s storms Upended our travel plans
Some grade school student dropped… Fortunately, the useful life of th… I’m a long way past grammar school… So I picked up the discarded penc… Many thanks to you, unknown grade…
It’s Julie’s birthday The beginning of her next Trip around the sun May this day be exciting and the start of something great
The next time you’re gardening upon your lovely terrace make sure to keep a lookout for the Phyllophaga Harris. More commonly known as a Junebug
Whenever you have a loving family who share their lives with each ot… you’re very fortunate, indeed. Thanks to El Rey del Taco, the U… and all the people who worked with…
In the enduring schism between “Dog People” and “Cat Pe… (since hardly anyone can be both, and people who get along without p… are not really at issue here)
Come and listen to my story about… The Oscars got turned upside down I’d like to tell you a story, sit… About how I slapped Chris Rock t… In a Bel Air mansion I was TV r…
Red America Visiting you this weekend Could never live here
Here lies Rob Harris He once drank a lot of beer Then he gave it up