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Like it or not, we ought admit
The Ukraine is more Russia's bit,
Their neighbor not ours,
The European powers
Unlike us, are not in a snit.

Republicans are crying out,
Ready for a nuclear bout?
Disaster creators
These Obama haters
Would rush in where cool heads have doubt!

Poem with probability = 0.999735664546

SEASONABLE UNREASONABLE

Spring has sprung

And though it's young,

Winds are blasting,

Branches outcasting.

Good thing there's no

Face-slapping snow,

Says weather wizard--

That'd be a blizzard!

Poem with probability = 0.997323961503

The real "takers" do it grand style
They've boondoggled for quite a while,
Private planes and yachts
For folks that have lots,
Draw subsidies with greedy guile!

Poem with probability = 0.997311363732

Credentials do not seem to matter,
The Koch Brothers purse is much fatter,
Min Wage, Women's rights,
Should dull Repub lights,
Despite all the false TV patter!

Poem with probability = 0.99535328594

He knows not of what he speaks,
The logic doth reek,
For the Right to Bear Arms,
Doesn't require we give alms,
To leftist notions you seek.

Poem with probability = 0.985721685147

Is Cuomo a real Democrat,
He keeps that bit under his hat,
A buddy of Christie
It makes his eyes misty
To tax rich folk? Rather stand pat!

Poem with probability = 0.983532797093

Too big to fail, too big to jail,
Such Banks I would like to impale,
Robber barons rampant
Dark dealing non lambent,
All looters of little folks' kale!

Poem with probability = 0.973638131415

With Tennessee and dancing around love lost, an old wordplay title comes to mind

“Tennessee Vaults” - an update,
Tune of TENNESSEE WALTZ

I was glancing with my darling
Through the Tennessee Vaults
Found a story about campus lust
And I showed it to some scholars
They found it authentic
I think I am going to bust

So we sealed up the rights,
For the Tennessee Vaults
Have stories he’d thought he had tossed
Will this story give some insight
For which we’ve been praying
The bountiful Tennessee Vaults

Poem with probability = 0.96936649735

A tip of the hat to Joe Nocera at the Times!
I'm sure you have made a difference.
Will wonders never cease!

Maybe now college presidents will demand
they get paid as much as coaches.
And the academic faculty.

Baseball has to pay for minor leagues.
Football and basketball, no.
They have colleges.

Rest in deserved feisty peace, Pete Seeger.
The union still makes us strong.
Together, progress!

Poem with probability = 0.951365079998

warm Central Park bench
robins picking ripe berries
back to New York Times

Poem with probability = 0.937343407611

B e
R uthless;
E liminate
V ague
I deas,
T hen
Y earn.

Poem with probability = 0.935389791306

6 am:
garbage men and rats
on long-shadowed avenues
in the east village

kindness:
you didn't have to
let me have your taxi cab
but i'm glad you did

strangers:
millions of strangers
yet i see THAT guy every
time i wear sweatpants

Poem with probability = 0.882344676

Tourists for High Line
Invaded my quiet nabe.
Wish they'd all go home.

Poem with probability = 0.835944996238

Road slick with spring rain--
the cab's lights make wet shadows
where the strangers walk

The pretty stranger
stretches in the heat wave, bare
feet under water

One lamppost the moon,
two lovers in wintertime--
ten lampposts the stars

Statue's unlit torch,
the pale moon keeps company
by burning whitely

The Tribute in Light--
two lovers stand apart to
see it on their own

The bank's gaudy lights--
one man walks past in shadow,
under umbrella

Poem with probability = 0.746637566532

Couldn't agree more.
Hyper processed junk, sugar sugar sugar.
Dyes
Excessive preservatives
Even my last holdouts ... artificial sweeteners.....
All hell on wheels with side effects galore....
Slowly slowly, we will wake up.

Poem with probability = 0.722874633937

Tripped on subway stairs
My pocketbook flies into
the grateful thief's hands.

Poem with probability = 0.718399187766

Solitude:
Scrounging for solace
I find it in the shower
For two grand a month

Poem with probability = 0.692857415185

Starbucks' window seat
midtown faces hurry past
no one glances in

Poem with probability = 0.680307348227

I'd have given all in my purse
To be spared that verse

Poem with probability = 0.66678954613

Kindness:
Don’t be embarrassed
not having a doorman says
nothing about you

Poem with probability = 0.652401224735

Nate Silver is no longer sterling?
The hair that I have left is curling,
Trading on 538
Is to trifle with fate,
My once faith in Nate is now whirling!

Poem with probability = 0.632095326033

Among multitudes
deepest solitude abounds,
walking on Broadway

Poem with probability = 0.612707498266

We were on the roof.
The BQE was so long:
straight into the sun

Poem with probability = 0.60664025898

Commute:

Getting to New York
is almost impossible
N.J. Transit Sucks

Poem with probability = 0.602534302848

(Commute)

Personal space venn
diagrams, rush hour human
origami game.

Poem with probability = 0.599503735269

Is this where we submit? Here goes:

O, New York, New York!

I see you, New York,
from far, far away—and know
your blood as my own.
Bill Denham
Portland, Oregon
via Berkeley, CA

Poem with probability = 0.597614754388

Took the AA train
Looking for Columbia
Made a big mistake

Poem with probability = 0.583512115408

Island:
Too much living in
Manhattan makes me want to
move to some island

Poem with probability = 0.580268825796

strangers:

oh no! i just saw
a gigantic freaking rat.
what do i do now?

Poem with probability = 0.56889655564

Will the Brooklyn Nets

Become the Moscow Nyets?

Poem with probability = 0.561807223727

I just can't believe
You jumped on a moving train
Please don't harm that man

Poem with probability = 0.556505292484

Never knew your name
But I helped you get home once
You were desperate

Poem with probability = 0.548656655423

New York is much more,
But City Room Editors
Are quite demanding.

Poem with probability = 0.541587812961

Tidelands in a stream,
Drowning in the hostile race.
Signs of our nature.

Poem with probability = 0.541460037562

Strangers:
Stares are exchanged yet
We share anonymity
Instead of coffee

Poem with probability = 0.530189568211

alone in a crowd
blurry-eyed, enroute to my
cube in the city

Poem with probability = 0.521689209449

I find solitude
among a crowd of strangers
Looking for my ME

Poem with probability = 0.512750991714

Crosstown bus
slower than a man
with a cane

Poem with probability = 0.509990721771

time for us to breathe
smell life returning smell him
sun smoke me you them

Poem with probability = 0.502495519371

Solitude:
Back seat of a cab
Only place in Manhattan
To hear myself think

Poem with probability = 0.496505332525

Where do I go now?
Catch a cab or walk it out?
Subway faster when in doubt

Poem with probability = 0.494376416147

Surrounded by lights
Alone but not quite feels nice
This city gives me life

Poem with probability = 0.482276983156

Blue hyacinth sways
Among daffodils yellow
Sweet strangers return

Poem with probability = 0.464661329638

With needle in hand
And in subway solitude
I embroider words

Poem with probability = 0.460568975906

Sunrise on water
Towers, quiet thump heralds,
Bundled New York Times.

Poem with probability = 0.446300999885

New York loneliness,
Just a myth, strangers will always
Help out or share smiles.

Poem with probability = 0.43985072168

A boy, a glance
Of Reader's Digest.
Life in NY was found.

Poem with probability = 0.431607314181

Spring bud, awaken.
Out of millions, yet thou
alone breathe thy Space.

(Solitude)

Poem with probability = 0.431034625043

Planted in bedrock
One hundred thousand buildings
How do they not sink?

Poem with probability = 0.423968050211

No one is strange here
Weirdo is no term of art
Gloria in exchelsis.

Poem with probability = 0.395036805272

Saudis place big orders for out military equipment.
The first and foremost duty of the president is to
safeguard the interest of military-industrial complex.
Every time the president visits a developing country
like India,Indoensia, Turkey, he tries to sell them
military equipment. He wears two hats- president
of USA and a salesman for MIC.

Poem with probability = 0.391081234708

Hearts burst gratefully
Abundant thoughtfulnesses
Giving, helping, love

Poem with probability = 0.374738758052

Far from Manhattan
wildflowers are in bloom
awaiting the spring.

Poem with probability = 0.370832525681

The thousands of suits
Parading down Park Avenue
Tell me it's Monday.

Poem with probability = 0.35977147051

Cross West Side Highway.
Walk in Hudson River Park.
Have the best commute.

Poem with probability = 0.334280625001

Crumpled states of sleep
First misty light on Hudson
The hamster wheel turns

Poem with probability = 0.332050251355

Commute:
The express pulled up
across the platform but I
stayed local with you

Poem with probability = 0.328659263123

Hog Island you're there
The storm came and left brother
Barnum all alone

Poem with probability = 0.322027733014

subway speeding past
I one-eighty, resurface
and hail a taxi

Poem with probability = 0.315678135403

morning chill at 6;
Chinatown bodega warmth
onion bagel crunch

Poem with probability = 0.31389175098

Kindness:

Ernie Gross made up
"the generosity bell".
--I miss my grandpa.

Poem with probability = 0.304447501089

1. Taking the subway
to Long Island City Flea
for some tea and milk

2. Morning commute is
easy with tea and milk in
my hand to sip on

Poem with probability = 0.296637326561

The cars never stop
Always migrating both ways
Can't they see ahead?

Poem with probability = 0.264502316753

Brooklyn Heights tourists
looking lost on way to bridge
Brooklyn Bridge this way

Poem with probability = 0.254141249076

What do we humans expect?
We have multiplied to over 7 billion and are destroying the ecosystem.
There is no government to blame, there is only ourselves to blame

After Sandy we did nothing
After Newtown we did nothing
and after this we will do nothing

when Greenland melts and the 22 foot wave of water is on it's way, we will say
Hey! why didn't somebody do something!"

Poem with probability = 0.252347727128

tourists walk slowly
admire the city's buildings
great, I'm late for work.

Poem with probability = 0.235489957621

My dog walks alone
He's always been a thinker
Do I have a lisp?

Poem with probability = 0.232219485873

Wind, cloud, city lights
Empty lots, not a green stalk
Still--the lovely rain

Poem with probability = 0.231079424721

Six in the morning
before the hustle and grind
New York's reset time

Poem with probability = 0.217755519243

On board Metro North
Used to mean getting to work
Now all bets are off

Poem with probability = 0.211684320454

The loneliest death
Is passing out on the tracks
Near dawn, like Gary.