John F. McCullagh Poems

I did not lie, I just misspoke
Contributions, not bribes, help decide my vote.
As of right now, I'm an outcast
because Health care hasn't passed.
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My once rich topsoil clouds the seas

Man’s pesticides are poisoning me
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I know that I'm not perfect
that sometimes I'm much less-
But love can make our future
much better than our past.
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Please hide the newspapers-and turn off the news.

Please, nobody talk. I’ve got the gold medal blues.
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There was a man upon a time-
a man of genius rare-
Who strove to read the mind of God
And breathe the Empyrean air.
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Twenty terms in Congress’ halls-
Our Charlie doesn’t lack for balls!
His pay and pension are the best.
Still he needs feather his own nest.
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The shirt is borrowed, as is the tie
All else is mine to give, no lie.
Like a sweet symbiont song
I am true word and true chord.
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The piled debris had been removed
The smell of death was gone
The first time she appeared to me
one cool September morn
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In the shadow
I live in the shadow
the shadow of the mountain
Vesuvius.
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Look and find our names upon The Wall,
Hargrove, Hall and Marshall were our names.
We were three men that were left behind,
three Marines still owed honorable graves.
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