A New Love

Changing Horses

The world with its wars and its homophobes

Is indifferent to me.

The black man's been destroyed.

American infamy.

I put it on the rack

In my poetry.

To lie upon the sand

And look toward the sea.

The immigrant is out.

We'll build a giant fence.

Santa Claus and Macy's -

The Yankee experience.

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A New Love

Every day I love you more

As your heart grows kinder.

The past has swirled into the sea

With barely a reminder.

When you smile, the angels laugh.

And when you laugh, they listen.

To a man without a love,

The moon and stars just glisten.

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An Anti-Christmas Carol

Christmas crap and garish lights

And money spent in billions!

A gentle word sincerely said

Is worth a thousand Christs.

“A million Christmas trees,” she sang,

And that's what Yankees like.

Uniformity. It proves

That everyone is right.

Anyone who disagrees -

Harrison and Milk

And Bertrand Russell – feels the sword

Of Yankees with a dream.

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A Didactic Poem

Poems that come from the heart -

Indifference, grief or elation -

Mean more than the empty mindless dreams

Of Keats' imagination.

Most poems that come from the heart -

And to the bard most dear -

Are seven times as mediocre

As they are sincere.

A poem that is more

Than broken-hearted keening -

Intelligence and fantasy

And love - has all the meaning.

Half knowing, half unknown -

And love upon reflection

Is consciousness with feeling -

As well as deep affection.

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