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Poems

Loud signals and no sign of rope
As we slide down that slippery slope,
And the Wealthy Deniers
Pay outrageous Liars
To sabotage how we can cope.

The Public's confused, unaware,
And only when the cupboard's bare,
Will action be taken
Ere Earth is forsaken,
It's time for John Q to beware!!

Poem with probability = 0.999370509654

a trader obsessing on speed
invisibly sourcing his greed
is he outed by name?
it's the end of his game
the parasite none of us need.

Poem with probability = 0.998731756838

Boot kissing might not be so rash
It could lead to oodles of cash,
Pucker up did Christie
Made Adelson misty,
Maybe back in the '016 dash.

Adelson in regal array
Like the portrait of Dorian Gray,
Not royal or regal
By SCOTUS made legal,
To sensitive viewer's dismay.

Poem with probability = 0.998572668724

Not if Cuomo can sabotage Bill,
An unrelenting force for ill,
Acolyte for the Rich,
Makes a charter school pitch,
Abetter of Chris Christie's swill.

Poem with probability = 0.996118577506

Our Land was so well Constituted
And our Fore Fathers then well Instituted.
But our Democracy has become so Convoluted
When our Leadership became Prostituted.

Poem with probability = 0.990019737169

Oligarchs can draw blood from a stone,
Covet everything poor folk own,
Oligarchs, zombie style,
Add it all to their pile,
That's America's current tone.

Poem with probability = 0.986739882584

Like Claude Rains, I'm utterly shocked
That fair market dealing is mocked,
How blokes have been itchin'
To rig a thieves kitchen,
Bit late for the door to be locked!

Poem with probability = 0.986722411647

Straphangers waddle.
On a 6 A.M. Commute,
Hey, watch my caboose!

I trouble my way
Through the crowds of old Times Square
Guarding my pockets.

See that Big Apple,
Always shining so brightly?
Open wide, take a bite.

Wiggle, wiggle, shake.
Rustle, rustle and KABOOM!
New York attitude.

Poem with probability = 0.978811946485

table for one, please
saxophone player, outside
the beats drift inside

Poem with probability = 0.976574285933

Hire someone who shows real compassion
Although it is not now in fashion,
Creates without fears,
Works well with his peers,
Whose loss would leave most faces ashen.

Poem with probability = 0.970438440968

Solitude:
The bright greenish tree
grow buds and bloom a flower.
Is it not lonely?

Strangers:
Heads down in our phones
talking through facebook or chats.
Aren't we all strangers?

Kindness:
Helping hands are great
for everyone in between.
even for a stranger.

Poem with probability = 0.964462041399

Only in the noise
Does any of it make sense
When I find my peace

Poem with probability = 0.955712991357

Commute:
On crowded subways
Everyone is an island
Observing en route.

Poem with probability = 0.948529014986

Commute
Title: Train Traffic Ahead

Train is on the bridge
Through the cars, a dreaded cry
"Hey guys! It's Showtime!

Kindness
Title: United States v. Windsor

Legal victory:
No more do we have to say,
"He is just a friend."

Poem with probability = 0.942514757086

Silver rain brings life
New York the brightest red rose
springs the greatest pose

Poem with probability = 0.940112920969

Resplendent green eyes
Meet mine between the faces.
These tracks decide fate.

Poem with probability = 0.930700961398

dreadlock cabbie flies
through frozen downtown streets
no care for red lights

Poem with probability = 0.92933748427

Newspapered masks
Human cargo arrives
Faceless workers

Poem with probability = 0.927679980231

PATH ad to Wall Street:
Palms read by Rita! Fortunes
without the cookies.

Poem with probability = 0.91826322617

Steel pipe of unknowns
Furtive glances and shuffling
The world is waiting.

Poem with probability = 0.901854238723

Fast HONKING machines,
Rushing feet with objectives,
Coffee scented air.

Poem with probability = 0.900569036204

The pushing, shoving
Be on time is livid pursuit
Finally made it.

Poem with probability = 0.895049358951

PATH ad to Wall Street:
"Palms read by Rita!" Fortunes
without the cookies.

Poem with probability = 0.893965766921

She knocked on the glass,
Then came outside and asked me
To zip up her dress.

Poem with probability = 0.889659103103

I am not alone
I breathe this city, my home
Its lights will guide me

Poem with probability = 0.886404659777

Alone together
They sit beside each other
On an old park bench.

Poem with probability = 0.87812855777

Pop put a turtle
On our terrace with a string
Turtle soup come spring

Poem with probability = 0.869841981671

You can stay awake
New York has sunlight at night
when all is just right.

Poem with probability = 0.869789004437

Island:

A Hell of a Town
The Bronx is up and the
Battery's down.

Poem with probability = 0.863383157868

Lonely concrete walls...
But the greens shall set me free!
Thank you, Mister Tree!

Poem with probability = 0.834085663264

New Jersey Queens slog
Over Gotham- paradise
that I once called home

Poem with probability = 0.829930836508

We were not strangers
On September eleven:
Just an illusion.

Poem with probability = 0.818746137937

Too much flight or fight
Second afternoon coffee
Still under Times Square

Poem with probability = 0.818746137937

Runners in short shorts
Hot coffee from a vendor
Dogs wagging their tails

Poem with probability = 0.811839638284

All New York's starlight
gleam with the biggest air flight
tender moments know

Poem with probability = 0.786128427998

Currently seeking:
those who choose to live upstream
of this grind turning.

Poem with probability = 0.784820856918

April comes alive
to the sound of warm spring hugs
without a coats tugs

Poem with probability = 0.780194496751

Long Island Iced Tea
Tall with a dash of cola
Bitters. Williamsburg.

Poem with probability = 0.776200939981

the city never sleeps
with music and dance echoes
sounding feast to ears

Poem with probability = 0.775400917319

our eyes lock on screens
lighted to black out angels
standing as strangers

Poem with probability = 0.741189550605

Symphony of swipes
Carnegie on the platform
Pity, those earbuds.

Poem with probability = 0.735278166644

The sight of buildings,
The chaotic noise of cars,
This is New York City.

Poem with probability = 0.728933393102

One final "goodbye"
Their door closes behind me
And I stand alone...

Poem with probability = 0.706680524337

Uptown Broadway, corn
Sprouting in the median --
So right, so bizarre.

Poem with probability = 0.69492657394

No two are the same
Dull and ashen they disperse
Keeping their distance

Poem with probability = 0.69492657394

No two are the same
Dull and ashen they disperse
Keeping their distance

Poem with probability = 0.684069287811

Astoria born,
Commack high school graduate
Calls Brooklyn his home

Splinters in my feet
Shoulders blistered from the sun
Great day at Coney

Poem with probability = 0.669169775977

Deep inside my coat
I can hardly smell the pee
of the F train's past.

Poem with probability = 0.651796213849

real estate values
the luxury of strangeness
and a decent view

Poem with probability = 0.645668938108

( Opening Day )
Sitting at Citi
Dreaming the beautiful game--
Strangers back in love.

Poem with probability = 0.640717591942

the stranger
holds the door for me
spring breeze

Poem with probability = 0.638913805192

real estate agent:
your mom was a model once?
yes, sweet lady, mine!

Poem with probability = 0.632917938836

(strangers)

Wow! Gold stilettos
on unknown fashionista
at Lincoln Center.

Poem with probability = 0.624118734831

Strangers:

Lower east side boys
Jejune,charisma and booze
Silly distractions.

Poem with probability = 0.619818791998

Cross Park Avenue
The Pan Am building is gone
Dad is too. Seasons change

Poem with probability = 0.618007942247

Window to the World
Manhattan clamoring streets
Between steel canyons

Poem with probability = 0.618007942247

waiting for the bus
he looks up and sees a star
between the buildings

Poem with probability = 0.611985016949

where cobblestones
show through pavement…
city of dreams

Poem with probability = 0.600775321574

In waxing success
Ephemeral ambition
Trumps loyalty

Poem with probability = 0.590805147842

Sixty Dutch guilders
on Wall Street money markets
won’t buy squat today.

Poem with probability = 0.59003127009

Commute:
Sometimes you miss trains.
Enjoy a moment to breathe
‘til the next arrives.

Poem with probability = 0.585985979631

As silent strangers,
Standing rapt, alone as one
Manhattan solstice

Poem with probability = 0.57900646985

On this island known
As Manhattan, the seagulls
Resemble pigeons

Poem with probability = 0.573544058647

white haired woman smiles
as she gives her subway seat
to a sleepy child

just before the train
lumbers into Grand Central
one last cell phone rings

Poem with probability = 0.568462885647

Times square lights kindness
sunlit on every corner
what a great honor.

Poem with probability = 0.566820903936

(Topic strangers)
Stilettos that clack
Dress shirts buttoned too tightly
Queue New York city

Poem with probability = 0.56204492335

Six in the morning
at the Port Authority
The smell of excess

Poem with probability = 0.557406482562

he keeps making room
but no one sits next to him
in the subway car

Poem with probability = 0.549443308418

An icy cold glare
melts into a friendly smile
good day to you too

Poem with probability = 0.539049087902

The clock goes Tick Toc.
No answer from Barack.
As the research gets finer
Canada ships it all to China.

Poem with probability = 0.532328913429

Shoulder to shoulder
We sway as one. Stop as one.
Silence is the price.

Poem with probability = 0.52196763917

Hands too cold to type
Haiku into my phone on
The c train platform

Poem with probability = 0.510080500462

crawling foot by foot
gridlock on the L.I.E.
heat waves distort view

Poem with probability = 0.503039402058

How blue my lips are
from berry pie sweet purple
cooked with criss cross crust

Poem with probability = 0.502634507675

island;

bridges and tunnels
will be most valuable
when we have to leave

Poem with probability = 0.48863182754

Strangers find lovers
Amidst abandoned beauty
The Vale of Cashmere

Poem with probability = 0.487492449323

Sunday solitude
Open bench on the High Line
Hello to Will Shortz

Poem with probability = 0.485258709096

conscious solitude
often great; at times fearful
thank goodness for wine

Poem with probability = 0.485258709096

Ten million heads.
Double that in arms and legs.
Reach out and touch me.

Poem with probability = 0.480677166382

afraid to look up
colorful diversity
shoes of NYC

Poem with probability = 0.479115201888

Richard Nixon....(REPUBLICAN)

"It's not illegal if the President does it."

George Bush.....(REPUBLICAN)

"I want justice,"
"And there's an old poster out West that says,
'Wanted: Dead or Alive."'

Poem with probability = 0.478570203676

I wake up alone
in a fast crowd. I am just
a visitor here.

Poem with probability = 0.472179818789

Short beginner's guide.
Middle light on means it's free,
Not pronounced Hyoo-ston.

Poem with probability = 0.47090577406

Commute:

Like crammed sardine fish
all unrecognizable
with different dreams

Poem with probability = 0.465884119966

Lady Verdigris
willfully standing apart,
patinaed and proud.

(Island)

Poem with probability = 0.454115278489

Mix of rain and snow
as I begin my morning.
Will it ever end?

Poem with probability = 0.443361534477

a glowing baby
flying saucer beams of love
keith haring was here

Poem with probability = 0.44205621058

names carved in granite
water soothes as names are read
crying for babies

lost in cold, dark night
not knowing which way to go
friendly faces tell

Poem with probability = 0.420207358995

Seat's edge in North Face
On packed E, pining for T-
Shirts and sweet seatback

Poem with probability = 0.412428333903

The green air blows here
The Statue of Liberty
Blankets to springs soul

Poem with probability = 0.40610804199

Back from Bronx hospice.
Chianti at Village bar.
Fried zucchini back.

Poem with probability = 0.40610804199

sometimes it seems like
acupuncture with hat pin
this war on the poor

Poem with probability = 0.402926632185

water surrounding
a universe in the world
tethered by bridges

Poem with probability = 0.399972058764

Scrambled egg and toast.
My head, scrambled, just waking.
Scramble for a seat.

Poem with probability = 0.398553009712

Amethyst pink sky
Lady Liberty shining
My lone gaze stares out

Poem with probability = 0.388109797871

for visible moon
i look at her eagerly
around the time square

Poem with probability = 0.387780346859

“Don’t Know”

Pretty well sums up the currant Republican Party and its even more conservative and reactionary outliers...

"I don't know what they have to say,
it makes no difference anyway -
whatever it is, I'm against it!
No matter what it is or who commenced it,
I'm against it!

Your proposition may be good,
but let's have one thing understood -
whatever it is, I'm against it!
And even when you've changed it or condensed it,
I'm against it!"

Professor Wagstaff, “Horsefeathers”, 1932

Poem with probability = 0.375127600423

A Bodega Man
discarded by the discounts
Lush reminisces

Poem with probability = 0.370778692856

Smoldering moments
Time stands still as she passes
Always passing by...

Poem with probability = 0.370065623335

Gilded torch upraised
Clad in verdigris copper
She offers freedom

Poem with probability = 0.36951065889

Commute

toothpaste and coffee
elbows in my side and back
fleeting eye contact

Poem with probability = 0.361359088202

Correction:

Lost in a big crowd
Standing among the many
Feeling all alone

Poem with probability = 0.359051713582

The LIRR
A Friday night in summer
Standing room only

Walking the High Line
6 AM Sunday morning
Not even church bells

Poem with probability = 0.349435411037

ISLAND OF STRANGERS:
first dawn light blinding, alone,
warming through the crowds.

Poem with probability = 0.344606545309

morning rush begins
with disconnected people
scurrying to work

Poem with probability = 0.343181577601

in between mansions
no moon in Madison square
she fills needed gap

Poem with probability = 0.341446005598

Back from Bronx hospice.
Chianti at Village haunt.
Fried zucchini back.

Poem with probability = 0.332600825043

Units all empty
except for me the super
walking empty halls

Poem with probability = 0.330890983456

Lost in a crowd
Standing among the many
Feeling all alone

Poem with probability = 0.321620693265

COUPLE THERAPY

Sitting side-by-side.
In therapy. Still. In spite.
Their last stop, before…

Poem with probability = 0.320362232941

Riding the Six Train
Mat on back to Yoga Class
Namaste New York:)

Poem with probability = 0.315056295572

New Jersey pizza
a crime against humanity
dream of Lombardi's

Poem with probability = 0.314021087128

quiet and so very dark
wait birds now a chattering
sun peeks over rooftops

Poem with probability = 0.312264951257

Glittering darkness
Cabs like moonstones roll to curb
Chelsea ghost alights

Poem with probability = 0.303459039218

6 a.m. in Rome
And the fountains are running
Ice reigns in New York

6 a.m. in Rome
And the fountains are running
I don't need New York

Poem with probability = 0.303151469587

Times hits door. New day!
Hot coffee. Back in
Bed for a delicious few.

Poem with probability = 0.300971362705

Rudeness of legend
dispelled on Fifth Avenue
by kind directions

Poem with probability = 0.300124280107

Sun peeking at dawn,
Spring's kindness over the Hudson:
street's warm as a hug

Poem with probability = 0.295222384488

Made syllable corrections:

The 4 year-old said,
"Next stop is Aus-tra-li-a?!"
No, Astoria.

Poem with probability = 0.294850793613

Buildings block the sun
Encased in concrete canyons
Like lonely cattle...

Poem with probability = 0.291901251828

beneath my cold feet
the hot movement of fast trains
is clearly felt

Poem with probability = 0.288339539709

One World Trade Center
Back lit by a cloudless sky
Tells the world we're here

Poem with probability = 0.281310092514

Oh daddy won't you take me back to Mulenberg county,
Across the green river where Paradise lay.
I'm sorry my son but you're too late in askin,
Mr. Peabodys coal train done hauled it away.

John Prine, Paradise.

Poem with probability = 0.276433132286

She is looking out
From her hospital window
watching pain-free lives.

Poem with probability = 0.271178799338

afraid of strangers,
this pubescent Upstate boy
refused to look up

Poem with probability = 0.26922648737

I'm holding your gaze
From the opposite platform.
The train severs us.

Poem with probability = 0.26922648737

solitude, the cloud,
alone as yesterday's warmth
drifts like a balloon

Poem with probability = 0.26892846709

Coney Island gulls
Boardwalk, burlesque, hot hot dogs
Sunrise, thick red grease

Poem with probability = 0.268410614949

Commute

Going up and down
Crushing candy in a sea
Full of puffy coats

Poem with probability = 0.266011663809

Central Park in spring,
drunk in the horse drawn carriage,
an old man, alone.

Poem with probability = 0.265209840964

Manhattan sirens rushing
To save yet one soul
Who died prematurely first.

Poem with probability = 0.263856975387

Seagulls, escorting
ferries, island to island,
as they did canoes

Poem with probability = 0.259320707501

Cabs dart in and out
I curse and push the pedals
on my wet black bike

Poem with probability = 0.25518748922

Door open, a stench
Car empty, but must resist
Stale air cloaked in piss

Poem with probability = 0.252347727128

Worst noise fills my ears
Subconsciously slaps it off
Eyebags forming fast

Poem with probability = 0.251404797054

Waiting in Starbucks:
It is after nine o’clock.
Is he still coming?

Poem with probability = 0.250203680492

An image of dust
spews past the iron door, silent.
Waits for an eye's blink.

Poem with probability = 0.248366410829

before the rush hour
a young man hanging tinsel
in a subway booth

Poem with probability = 0.248366410829

If you think you can
Find solitude in the crowd
You are not alone

Poem with probability = 0.248366410829

spring avian song
floats through my window -
sweet street harmony

Poem with probability = 0.245987590298

Larry,

Leahy should change the rule
But of course he's no fool
If he now changes the rule
It will stay changed when Republicans rule!
(Real soon!)

Poem with probability = 0.245150595002

Eight million plus souls
call this small island their home,
yet I walk alone.

Poem with probability = 0.245150176164

The warm solitude
Of hidden rooftop gardens
Wraps my soul with light

Poem with probability = 0.244281369024

Tuna fish sandwich,
Left behind on the subway,
Is a scary thing.

Poem with probability = 0.239989913278

F train leaving York,
One sings: Heads underwater
But we’re breathing fine.

Poem with probability = 0.239646939935

New Yorker till dawn.
Cartoon rhinos at Starbucks.
Damn caption contest.

Poem with probability = 0.239646939935

Sparks drop on stairwell
Construction worker: "baby,
You're a firework."

Poem with probability = 0.239172123653

on the walk ways
people drink and dine with smiles
more joy and delight

Poem with probability = 0.234353552158

Isn't it Funny....That when you've got the Money....
There's an Automatic Purchase of Power?
I hold a Sadness for our Condition: there Is a Repulsive Jewish Coalition...
That Contributes to our Country's going Sour.
Elected "Servants" serve Themselves like their Master's little Elves....
Beneath the Surface, there Seems to be so little Truth.
We're not Sure what we're Made For,
When we've got a Congress that's "Paid For"....
As Public Servants, so Many just seem So Uncouth.

Poem with probability = 0.231079424721

in a patch of sun
a homeless man with a cart
stops to read the Times

Poem with probability = 0.23102302797

Kindness is
A language spoken
A bit differently here

Poem with probability = 0.230793643828

Subway whines warm air
Comfort from the skyscraper's
Cool cloak, lonely stroll

Poem with probability = 0.227089217765

You're never alone
In this fabled, huge city
Out there, in the streets.

Poem with probability = 0.227089217765

an approaching sneeze
travels underground on train
huddles between them

Poem with probability = 0.227089217765

Crazy dude knows all
the trainstops- point A to B
Test him? Rather not.