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COLLECTED POEMS, VOLUME FOUR   STORIES

 

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A

A Better Life Awaits

A Canary in a Coal Mine

A Government Song

A Hearty Menu

A Lawyer's Lesson

A Litany of Finger Pointing

A Litany of Symptoms

A Messenger from God

A Scientific Hit

A Sing-Song Song to Sing

A Sunshiny Thought

A Tiny Lie

A Unicorn Named Ira

A Vase of Carnations

A Working Class Classified
Advice to the Pessimist

After-dinner Mint

Albert Gore

All God's Chillun Got Credit Cards

All the news is screaming

All Things in Moderation

America the Bountiful

American Cads

An ant hill knows

Answers

Art

At the trough

 

B
Ballad of the Love Child

Beethoven ripped

Bird Songs (three poems)

Black Markets

Bureaucracy

Bright Boys

Bulls

Bursting Bubbles

Busted

Buy the lie and kill the truth

By Rivers of Thought

 

C

Career Politicians' Questions

Chains

Chased Away

Cherished Cultural Myths

Chicago Poem

Chicago Poem II

Chicago Poem III

Chocolate trees

Choice

Chump Change

Chump Change - variations on Mulberry Bush

Cigarette Smoke

Clever Death, Stupid Death

Comes the day
Conjugating Hitler

Consensus

Continents do not float

Corruption

Criminal Truth

Crisis

Critics

 

D
Darwin's God

Death Knell for the Maids

Debt

Deficits

Disjunct

Dissent

Diversity

 

E

Earth Hour Follies

Easy comes hard

Either One or the Other

Equality

Everything's about my colored skin

Excessive Demand

Extremely Green

 

F

Farmers and Alarmers

Fat, fat government

First
Foolish men were ruling
For Your Common Good

Freddie and Fannie and Barney and Frank

Free

Free Money
Friend Or Foe

From Ivied Walls and Towers
Full Circle

Fund Raising

 

G

George the Bush

Gimme
Glory

God ain't white
Government Speaks

Grace Before Meals

Green Job

 

H

He plunks his money down

Heavenly Days

Hillarious
History Lesson

Hook, line and sinker

Hot and Blue

Hot House

Hot House Ballads (four poems)

Hotel Stupidity

How much is that politician's favor?

Human Nature

Hurt Feelings

Hymn for Today

 

I

I am god, and I'm in charge

I don't care

I mean to help

I Need Another Credit Card

I Shall Believe the Socialist

I shall not join the party

I will tinker as I please

Icarus meets the sun

Ideology

If life is worth the living

I'll use my freedom

I'm sorry

I'm very fond of Cummings' words

In a Church Parking Lot

In a kindly manner

In the workers' paradise

Income Inequality

It Doesn't Help
It Is Not Fair

It was a cross

It's only a matter of....

It's too hot, and it's too cold

 

J

Johnny B Blue and Suzy Q

Jumbled

Just Because

 

K

Kicks

Killer kills killer

Kurfürstenstraße 115/116

 

L

Lazy Bones

Leave me be

Left and Right

Lemmings

Let's have some quail, by George

Let's All Sacrifice

Let's borrow

Let's take that leaking lifeboat

Life
Light the Lamps

Like a Duck to Water

Little is enough
Little Man

Little Questions

Love

Love is cool or love is hot

Love Songs for Dorothy

Love you, too!

 

M

Meetings

Merry-go-round

Metaphor

Missus Pee

Modern Art
Modern Times and Charity

Moral Relativism

Musicological Marx

Musicology

My way or the highway

 

N

Never, Ever Call It Greed

Never forget

No Body Blues

No God is the god for me
No matter

No More Nonsense

No moss growing on this rock

No One Likes "I Told You So"

No Place

None of your damn business
Nonsense

nuttin like a goal

 

O

O golly

O shitty, little cities in the dell

Odd, is it not?

Ode to the Indiana Teachers Union

Oh it's always someone else's fault

Old Age Blues

Old Radicals

Oh, to Walk a While in Hitler's Shoes
On a Candidate's Platform

Oops

Opaque Transparency
Orwell's Pigs

 

P

Passive? Quiz him!

Past Tense Verbs

Peace at all costs
Pig
Poetry

Politicians at any price
Politics

Politics is where the pig

Poli-words

Ponzi states

Pork Philosopher

Powerless Powers

Prayer
Prayer for the Common Good

President Cool

Pretty damn smart

Progressive Conceit
Psalm 16

 

Q

Questions In Answer to a Silly Question

 

R

Raise those taxes!

Ratio

Revising History

Revolutionary Economics

Rhetorical Tides

Right and Wrong

Rob a Peter to Pay a Paul

Romance Novel

Room A-460

 

S

Sarah and Sandy and Sally and Sue

Scare Tactics

Science has limits

Seek peace and pay its cost

Senator Crooked and Congressman Hoax

Shearing and Fleecing

Sheer Ignorance

Si mundus vult decipi

Silly You

Sketcherie

Social Tensions
Soldiers

Some Days Are Diamonds

Some people will

Sometimes
Songs for the Victims of AIDS (five poems)

Stab the straw man

Steal Away

Sticks and Stones

Surrealism Lessons

Sweet Sung Praises

 

T
Take Me Back to the Ball Game

Tale of the Makers and the Takers

Tell it to the ice caps

Tell Me

The big bad wolf of nations

The bill for good intentions

The Bureaucrat's Memo

The colors of man

The counters of coin

The Dishwashers' Song

The Doomsday Clock

The Double Standard Song
The End Game of Conformity

The end of the world

The Fruit of the Money Tree

The Hockey-Stick Man

The Kindly Radical

The Modern Politician

The Modern, Super Rich

The New Man

The Once Great British Bulldog
The One God, Praise

The People's Bill

The Privileges of Intellectuals

The Quilt

The religion of peace

The Scourge of the Planet

The Seller of a Bill of Goods

The Sharp Shooter

The Social Democrat's Song

The Social Justice Game

The straw that breaks the camel's back
The Truth

The Voice Box

The Wisest of Men

The World Is Coming To An End

Things I Like

Three Abortion Carols

Three Little Democrats

Three Songs for Roger

Throw Away the Mold
To Reap Without Sewing

Tolerance

Tomorrow comes
Too

Topsy Turvy

Totalitarian

Trolley Car

Troubles

Two-Party Politics

 

U
Up on the little guy

 

W
Waltz of the Promiscuous

We All Believe

We Get Nothing

We really love our notion

Welfare Queen

We've got nothin' to do

We've got to fight these battles

What About It?

When a radical comes to power

White is black

Who Am I?

Whoppers, lies and fabrications

Why

Witness

Worries

Wrong is right

 

Y

Yawn

Yesterday

You May But

 

STORIES  by title

 

A Short History of Mayor Potholes

An Allegory of Meals

Celebrate Diversity?

Donkey Skins and Elephant Hides

Kellogg-Briand - 1928

Seeds

Simply Not Good Enough

The Queen of Upper Downerstuff

The Slop Pails and the Pig

The Story of Innocent Bloat

The Story of Mother Mirror

Today's Story of Waste