David McLansky Poems

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321.
Riff On Pradip Chattopadhyay's Cat, And Mouse, And Man

Do not expell
This lazy cat,
That's grown so sleek,
That's grown so fat;
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322.

Riff on Pradip Chattopadhyay Of Mice, and Men, and Cats

You can’t expect
To take my balls
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323.
To Sweet Valerie

I count it pleasing that you are coy
What woman’s art you do employ
That in my heat you do demur,
That of your love, I must infer;
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324.
Zhang Xin And The Chinese General

The brave are measured
By what they can lose,
A billionaire in Jimmy Choos
Calmy says the state’s corrupt,
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325.
A Riff On Indranil Bhaduri’s Poem “savior'

Zombies flailing in the sky
Floating in the twisting gyre
Glaring with a devouring eye
Stumbling as they hungry rise;
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326.
In Barron's Bookstore, A Riff On Iris Blue's English Sonnet

When eye meets eye in naked recognition
Suspecting that two hearts may beat as one
There lingers yet a momenst hesitation
Oh, questing vision, nervously this is done;
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327.
On Viewing A Friends Lingering Death

As I die
God grant to me
The semblance
Of some dignity:
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328.
When I Look Back

When I look back on my early days
And contemplate my wild, wild ways:
The hands upon my shoulder laid
Were brushed aside, I wouldn't play;
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329.
Little Girl’s First Train Ride

Between the rough and angry slats,
I press my eyes, bulging fat;
Crushed by weight, stuffed in the pen,
(Oh, the whining of the small children!)
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330.
In Memory Of Kay Borth

Kay passed away last night
The neighbor on the hill
Gone is her cheerful light
Her gleeful overspill;
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