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Each sneeze portends a viral doom,
Each cough, tuberculosis;
You'd better not tell your folks or friends
About your minor nasal quirks,
Or they'll..
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Shame on you, hostess, for making us gorge;
A bird is for stuffing, not dear Uncle George!
We needed red wagons and all of our strength
To cart our..
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Thanks for the turkey, thanks for the pie,
Thanks for the bubbly champers so dry;
Thanks for the cranberry sauce and the taters . . .
Thanks for th..
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It irks me,
It angers me
To hear these tales of
Wanton endangerment,
These cripplings and murders of innocents
By the chest-thumping carnage clas..
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Phantom bus, phantom bus,
Breeding a doubt in all of us.
Will it come or will it falter?
Could God Almighty even alter
The Schrödinger outcom..
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They are the regular regulars,
More so than I.
First, the kid: He's methodical.
With silent assurance and upward heaves
He moves his masses gracef..
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What ails you, dear Emmaline,
Is not Chagas' disease,
Or schistosomiasis,
Or leprosy, or acute necrosis,
Or typhus, or hypoplasia,
Or tetanus, or..
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O lovely devil,
I need not speak of you;
I merely think: "The time has come,"
And you appear!
Your truck with the roll-up door in back
Parks by t..
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"Plaudicite, amici!"
In that phrase I hear the echo of
A trite Zen koan.
Reformulate it thus:
What is the sound
Of no one clapping?
Ah, but in t..
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Should provisions be made
To permit those who wish it
(Of their volition)
To flirt with Death?
Not euthanasia--that option
In some forward-thinki..
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