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Musketeers of Illusion Poem by Dandelion De La Rue

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Always the coldness
creeping in
disturbing the warmth
of my illusions,
illusions of
d’Artagnan seeking
one for all and
all for one
true friends
warm love
risking all.

For them
the musketeers
there were no borders drawn
between them,
they knew that
borders don’t exist
imaginary lines
drawn in the mists
of paranoia.

But they
the musketeers
are only my
illusions,
now.

Like them
I drift into
invisibility
missing them
I have become
a nonexistent
border
separating love
and despair.

Krypton poem by Janet Kuypers

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Krypton

Janet Kuypers

from the “ Periodic Table of Poetry” series

So, riddle me this, Batman…
(Wait a minute. That’s the wrong
superhero reference.
Let me start over again…)

Hi there. I’ve been trying
to wrap my head around this one,
maybe you can help me out.
Now, I don’t know a ton
about superhero mythology,
but Superman — he’s from
the planet Krypton, right?
And from what I’d infer,
Krypton would have a lot
of Kryptonite — Kryptonite
comes from Krypton, right?
So if Superman is from Krypton,
why would Kryptonite
be his weakness?
I mean, that’s like saying
the planet Earth has Oxygen,
but humans have an adverse
reaction to it. I don’t get it.

Okay, okay, i’m sure Kryptonite
is the ore form of a radioactive
element from Superman’s home,
but really, if they’ll name
this bad-for-residents thing
a version of the panet’s name,
it really makes you wonder
why.

And when it comes to this planet,
Krypton is colorless, odorless, tasteless…
and our own air, the stuff we breathe,
even contains fractional amounts of Krypton.
And if on Superman’s home planet
it was the radioactive ore of an element,
I guess it makes sense that here on earth
Krypton is used for fluorescent lamps,
or even in high-powered gas lasers.

But the one thing I thought was cool
was that Krypton is also used
in small photograph flashes,
and in high-speed photography
(you know, for a brilliant white light
source – good for the photo minor
who even had the license place
“J PHOTO 1” for her first car)…

And if I so got into the brilliant
white light Krypton creates in flashes,
I also then thought it was excellent-cool
that the different colors in neon signs
are often all Krypton, too…

So whether or not Krypton
is where Superman came from,
all I can say is that
Krypton has a certain brilliance
right here on earth too.

Good bye Phyllis I Love You

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This is not a happy day. We lost her today.
To quote Wordsworth, “but oh the difference to me”

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her right breast. It turned out to be a trick knee.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

If you ever see three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

I’m glad that beauty is only skin deep. Otherwise, I’d be rotten to the core.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

They say that housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?

Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off.

Be nice to your children because they will be the ones who will choose your rest home.

The reason there are no women football leagues is that 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Photos of me don’t do me justice. They just look like me.

The best way to get rid of kitchen odors is to eat out.

Robert Redford once asked me out. I was in his room.

New Laws

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Jackson’s Law of Lost Objects

Anything placed with the thought, “This is important I’ll put it here” will never be seen again.

Jackson’s Laws of Gravity

Anything dropped will always bounce, scoot, or roll into any opening it barely fits into or under.

Dropped objects can travel farther than Newton’s Laws predict.