Quotation: Contradiction in Terms

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“Consumer culture is a contradiction in terms.”

~ Tibor Kalman

Your Attention Please!

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Recorded Reading: https://www.dropbox.com/s/w50mu2cni7eccva/your%20attention%20please.wav?dl=0

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Your Attention Please!

Look over here!

Don’t look over there —
That’s
The competition!

worthy

(Written with the poet’s dear friend Paul Vincent Cannon in mind)

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worthy

too often it is
the most worthy
among us who
field constant ac-
causations of
inadequacy

Sonnet: How Fortunate

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Recorded Reading: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zwbfng445qg9hb1/how%20fortunate.wav?dl=0

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How Fortunate

Happy is he or she has known despair!
The ordinary takes on it a rosy glow
Which those who’ve breathed in soft and fragrant air
For all their lucky lives but seldom know

Make ’em Laugh

(The poet has a clownier side)

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Recorded Reading: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bsmdwpro89gusc6/make%20%27em%20laugh.wav?dl=0

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Make ’em Laugh

Make ’em laugh!
She’s on the staff
Of the Make ‘Em Laugh Society

Sowing These Seeds

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Recorded Reading: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7k43u2g7cp0wkir/sowing%20these%20seeds.txt?dl=0

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Sowing These Seeds

Here you go!
Here is my essence!
You can have it for free

Walking Up On You

(Know any of these?)

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Recorded Reading: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ueq9grt0zbvhw1d/walking%20up%20on%20you.wav?dl=0

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Walking Up On You

I’ll let you improve my life
But I’ll hate you while you do ~
Don’t want credit afterward
Accruing to you!

playin’ ain’ playin’

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Recorded Reading: https://www.dropbox.com/s/46rnfmnkyoz36f2/playin%27%20ain%27%20playin%27.wav?dl=0

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playin’ ain’ playin’

what’m i doin?
playin’
oh, that’s right, i
ain’

ain’ playin’
that’s what um doin’
yeah

Comparatively Few

(Karma’s a bitch)

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Recorded Reading: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xggn3d8n2h7c1qm/comparatively%20few.wav?dl=0

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Comparatively Few

All those times you had the laugh
At others’ expense
Thinking you had effortlessly
Breeched every defense

Quotation: Where’s Home? ~ Dalai Lama

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“Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.”

~ Dalai Lama