David Jackson

Christmas for the birds poem by Joan Pond

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Cerulean Light
by Joan Pond

On Greenwich Avenue,
Fred festooned a fir with lights.
“Jesus,” he said. “It just ain”t right.
I bought this string at CVS
and it”s already broke.
This Christmas stuff”s for the birds.
Man, it”s a joke.
I got no wife and my whole life”s changed.”
But when I shook his hand,
the blue lights lit.
“Holy shit!” he said. “It”s a miracle.”
And we stood,
bathed in cerulean light.

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Originally published at Artvilla.com December 7 2004

Angry Nursing Home Poem

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Capitalism will leave you

penniless

sitting in dried poop

pressing a plastic button

press the button

“NURSE! NURSE FIRE FIRE FIRE!

nurse for a hundred dried poops

poor poor nurse

can’t call doctor for five hundred

went to school for this

poor poor nurse

 

press the button

 

while a smiling social worker

smiles sweetly at the family

and gives them all the right

answers

smile social worker

smile

be sure the team

cleans the dry poop

before the

ambulance arrives

 

 

 

based on true story………………..david michael jackson

Togliatti Dog

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You have to admire a place that honors a dog so much, the dog gets a statue. Togliatti, Russia. here’s the story:
At the crossing of the South Road and Lev Yashin street the Monument of loyalty is set up: a dog sits on the bronze pedestal. This modest monument has not appeared here accidentally, it was an absolutely real dog, which had been waiting for its owner’s car on the same place for 7 years. This dog’s story has become the city legend: the dog’s owners tragically had died in an auto accident, but the dog could not accept its loss and settled down on the roadside. With a joyful bark he greeted every car which was going by. The citizens called the dog “Constantine” what means “loyal, faithful”, and after its death the monument to dog’s faith and loyalty was established on this place. The pose of the dog expresses the expectation, it is looking into the distance, towards the road where it had been waiting for his owners for seven years.

…….Dandelion De La Rue