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First, Bull. Run!

September 25, 2022 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

In the distance, sharp,

the crack of rifle fire

echo high above farm ford

the peace thereof polluted.

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Buffaloed

May 31, 2022 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Here we go again:

one more white supremacist,

hopped up on Tucker Carlson,

popping off in nurtured rage!

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Pet Lessons

April 15, 2022April 14, 2022 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Felines seldom play

Ambiguous, teasing games

Consequently Canines learn

It doesn’t pay to chase them.

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UN-AMERICAN? EXCUSE ME?

July 25, 2021July 25, 2021 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Though we disagree

About this country’s problems

And about the solutions

We both remain patriots!

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Among Us

February 2, 2021 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

There is lots of room

in which all of us may dwell

here between God and Satan…

even our politicians.

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Close Encounters of the Cluster-B Kind

January 25, 2021 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Darlin’, how I wish

you’d treat your costume jewelry

like they were all precious gems;

not the other way around!

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Preemptive Requiem

December 25, 2020 / agarrabrant / 1 Comment

Should I die today,

I trust that you’ll imagine

All the things I’d have to say.

Except, perhaps, I love you.

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Open Mouth Insert Foot

August 5, 2020 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

There are times, my friends,

it’s better to be silent

than to just shoot from the hip,

saying any old damned thing

that springs to a senile mind!

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He and His Glasses Case!

May 30, 2020 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Look! Possessive Squirrel!

Dragging his bed place to place.

Material contagion.

Oh God, what hath humans wrought?

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A Tangle But No Tumult

October 24, 2019 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Basking in the balm

of this fire sale we lit,

ashamed at my schadenfreude,

yet still gleeful, all the same.

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Pie In The Sky

September 20, 2019September 19, 2019 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

If you want the moon,

Then bloody ask for the moon!

Demanding sun and stars too,

Nets you naught but resentment!

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Internal Locus Lost

December 31, 2018 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

What Narcissism!

Forgetting how to control

both temper and car,

he lays heavy on his horn

trying, vainly, to control

actions of other drivers.

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A Matins Prayer

December 19, 2018 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Must there be drama

to christen every morning?

Can’t we vow and endeavor

to enjoy a silent dawn?

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Dawning Awareness

December 7, 2018 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

By sunrise first rays

Treetop branchlets a glisten

While upon the forest floor

We remain deep in shadow

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