Pacific Poet's Post - newspaper of Monk Penman

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Splitting the Vote... A Canadian Penchant

7 • Day 655, 10:54 • Published in Canada Canada

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Once again, it appears that eCanadians will re-elect Jacobi as president, and once again, it appears that the majority do not support him.

Somtimes I long for the good old days... two parties, simple choices. But the political world has evolved

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Troglodytes

4 • Day 652, 11:21 • Published in Canada Canada

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Nasty, nasty, I must shout
At the troglodytes about
The way they always stomp and moan...
At least they're only just half grown!

But I am fearful once they grow
They will think that all they know
Is the only truth worth knowing...
Beware

6

Perhaps I am a Cynic...

0 • Day 648, 10:23 • Published in Canada Canada

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Perhaps I am a Cynic...
With an Optimistic bent.
I was looking o'er my shoulder,
No matter where I went...
Yet still I always hoped to see
A Saviour had been sent.

Well, waiting for another
To save me from myself
Will help me just about as

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Alack!

0 • Day 644, 16:20 • Published in Canada Canada

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For lack of anything to say, that might be said much better
Otherwise, or somewhere else, I send to you this letter.
Empty are my promises, as empty is my soul,
An empty headed, empty life has always been my goal.

I understand not politics,

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Seriously Sincere, Sinseriously...

0 • Day 644, 11:30 • Published in Canada Canada

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I'm serious, so serious, so seriously sincere...
An actor of the theatre cannot more serious be
Than a poet of the serious kind, a poet such as me!

I'm furious, so furious, so furiously I'm here...
An actor of the theatre cannot more furious