Finish your dinner There are children starving In ____________________ In ____________________ In ____________________ In ____________________ That was mom's refrain Card carrying member Of Depression Era Clean plate club
Pick the country du jour There were hungry people There are hungry people Getting hungrier Very soon Getting hangry And hangrier
Sure aid measures Are stop gap Now we will see When we stop Stopping the gap Around the world And here at home
I was lucky then I am lucky now But as the prospectus states Past performance Is no guarantee Of future performance One of life's fine print Little disclaimers
As flying monkeys march Ordered forward harch Chanting in their stride "All we are, we owe her" Has my mind in a swirl It took a little girl A water bucket hurl Melting wicked witches churl What a world What a world Makes her toes curl
I fully exercise my brood First thing in the mourn Dark and murky coffee brewed Radical free verse bourne Haiku Tanka Senryu cadence Drives morning muse stance dance Since my brood is grown and gone Performed with no one looking on Can execute with awkward impunity Brewed in social media immunity From dark brooding brew confusion A day of perpetually amused infusion
A Scroll Threw Life 