Men of Few Words
The active
vocabulary of
the average
American is
500 words.
The average
Aborigine
calls that
verbosity.
Category Archives: poems & short jabs
men of few words
Filed under poems & short jabs
norse warrior
Norse Warrior
The greatest
WWII resistance
fighter in
Norway wound
up an
alcoholic
running a
stationery store.
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the way we were
The Way We Were
A woman
who thirty
years ago
called me
Angel &
I called
Devil Woman
& whose
eardrum I
blew out
in our
first explosive
sexual encounter
passed thru
town recently
with a
seeing-eye
dog looking
for a
place
to crash.
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the war on germs
The War on Germs
The average
human body
packs around
six pounds
of micro
organisms,
bacteria,
stuff essential
to our
survival that
we call
germs &
try to
wash away
with soap
& water.
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when you can write things
When You Can Write Things
There are
things you
can write
when you’re
old that
you can’t
write when
you’re young
but nothing
you can
write when
you’re young
that you
can’t write
when you’re
old.
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