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A Workingman’s Wage
A Workingman’s Wage, By Terry Scott Niebeling Yes, I make a workingman’s wage-enough to keep working, enough to pay and play. Enough to keep thinking. Enough to keep food on the table. Enough to...
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All or Nothing (Changes)
Where there is time to complain there is time to change. Afraid of difference like a cat the severe storm. What we have learned we’ve adorn. Sit and pace the floors, searching for answers. Asking...
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Abandon Your Meaningless Job
After a tiresome toil, for two years I’ve slaved. Becoming nothing, Bow to a vacant audience from an unforgiving stage. What an age. What has been done? What has been taken away? What can be...
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Measure of Man
Hands spun on a dot Reflecting a scene before The peanut butter sandwich inside Or its crumbs on the floor The wise-crack comment That no one seems to get ever The sheer weight of stupidity In a mass...
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Minor Details
Eyes in front, Focusing on some high-rise Ant Farm Minor details… No coffee; none for sale. Thoughts on our time When contemporaries write on depression And how they want to write, Immodestly mentioned...
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Days between Books
Time is of the essence We have now and others don’t The mail comes in Heavy, in boxes Full of books People count on efficiency Moments matter This is now Time never ends, but when it does Patrons to...
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Empty Space Saturday
This place desolate, bleak, empty- skeletons stood upright to prove a structural form. Watching the paint on the walls grow old, hearing thud: heart-beating, below skin. Times, follow the second...
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Lovely Location
i love where i’m at a dog licks paws in back a chair below offers comfort, my seat i am moderately relaxed i love where i’m at no one tells me what to do no one yells at me or you non-profit is the...
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I’ll Call in Sick for You*
Are you at work? Are you really sick? If it is so, I’ll help you with this. You don’t feel well, You feel pretty bad, I’ll call your business, The results are back. May I speak to the boss? Is ______...
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At the Back of Hodson Hall
At the enormous back windows of Hodson Hall, looking east towards Falcon Heights’ standing homes, over an expanse of grooved fields—carefully worked, a person can gleam breaking light caught on cement...
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Pro Tips for Planning your Perfect Life
“If you can’t please yourself, who can?” -Ma In the morning I start planning, by the time I am done it is mid-afternoon. I find that I have all things figured out, in finding that happiness is without....
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you look like you got some sun
One of my favorite phrases to hear on Monday is, “Oh, you got a bit of sun over the weekend…” The idea of going outside and sitting in the sun without buildings, without work, without people, without...
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Adjusted Advantage
The world can seem so small when assessed from the confines of a one bedroom apartment. A space tight, sticky, stuffy, and near unbearably drab. For a person to go outside and look, to see all there is...
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How I write poetry
Could they hear me at the desk oozing prose onto the page, clipping hard at the keys for grammar, few words and blank space, giving my all just for free writing? Had they known my walk through the...
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City Vantage
In varied ways The city’s buildings stand; Tall as they are, up with birds And clouds, Holding those lives Seething, going, and watching There inside. Mazes put up for institutions, Humans go about...
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I love coming early
Good morning Midwest, there is joy to be found in objectively taking the peeking sunrise, even behind overcast clouds. It happens so early in fact that you can taste the shine of the drinking fountains...
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talk of reason
peering out of an open screen window, there are wet cars and pavement, there are trees and stairways, and what does it mean? she says over the phone everything happens for a reason, and today is sort...
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Simple Satisfaction
Once I thought I would try something new. It garnered no notice and nothing happened. I felt good because I was doing what I loved. It didn’t matter about recognition in the end.
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Mapping Life (Broken Case)
Broken case, & we ask for a fix. Set life, & we want this framework society whole, for we stay. I imagine the world as a walk through a snow-covered dale. (Alone, yet we are acutely...
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Mapping Life (Broken Case)
Broken case, & we ask for a fix. Set life, & we want this framework society whole, for we stay. I imagine the world as a walk through a snow-covered dale. (Alone, yet we are acutely...
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