{"id":1885,"date":"2013-12-21T21:42:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T21:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2015-03-27T00:52:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T00:52:03","slug":"world-by-the-arse-a-sermon-poem-karen-springer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/world-by-the-arse-a-sermon-poem-karen-springer\/","title":{"rendered":"World by the Arse (A Sermon).Poem.Karen Springer."},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

Yepper,<\/strong>
\n –and they certainly do!<\/strong>
\n Now listen up,<\/strong>
\n I did not say \u201cass\u201d<\/strong>
\n so this isn’t a vulgar poem<\/strong>
\n but we are talking
\nan ancestral home
\n(O.K., thirty-eight years
\nis close enough)
\nalmost totally rehabbed,
\nhers and his caddies
\nwith matching vanity plates
\n(Yes, there IS a doctor
\nin the house.
\n\u201cWhat kind?\u201d folks ask.
\nWho the hell cares
\nbesides other insecure doctors?)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Moving along,<\/strong>
\n Social security is their pin money<\/strong>
\n And, you’re right,<\/strong>
\n their place at the shore<\/strong>
\n is in the cheap seats<\/strong>
\n but it’s on the water,<\/strong>
\n in the woods<\/strong>
\n and twenty years paid for.<\/strong>
\n The unintelligent and lazy<\/strong>
\n are wary of them.<\/strong>
\n Still, they are admired<\/strong>
\n by reasonable, hardworking individuals<\/strong>
\n because they are the validation<\/strong>
\n of what is fair and good.<\/strong>
\n 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Indeed, they are<\/strong>
\n a fine and generous couple.<\/strong>
\n Her weaknesses<\/strong>
\n are his strengths<\/strong>
\n and, of course,<\/strong>
\n vice versa.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For so many years<\/strong>
\n they struggled<\/strong>
\n through the vagaries<\/strong>
\n of her semi-profitable career,<\/strong>
\n hung in there<\/strong>
\n when the stock market<\/strong>
\n went ever so way down<\/strong>
\n took, and are taking, care of their<\/strong>
\n senile old moms,<\/strong>
\n (and ten stray cats)<\/strong>
\n as they<\/strong>
\n secularly humanistically<\/strong>
\n hug trees<\/strong>
\n and subscribe to<\/strong>
\n Mother Earth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You bet,<\/strong>
\n those sweet bastards<\/strong>
\n have a tight hold on<\/strong>
\n the glutei maximi<\/strong>
\n of our great planet<\/strong>
\n and they deserve<\/strong>
\n that firm, unrelenting grip.<\/strong>
\n Amen, my friends.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karen R. Springer<\/strong><\/p>\n

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF KAREN R. SPRINGER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karen has been writing poetry since the age of ten. She has three, as to date, unpublished anthologies:<\/strong>
\n 101 Speakings of the Giddy Gypsy, High Noon and My Pistol’s Smoking, and Getting There.<\/strong>
\n Much of her energy for the past forty years has been devoted to her career as an administrator in<\/strong>
\n several southern New Jersey school districts where she served as superintendent and\/ or principal.<\/strong>
\n Her degrees include a BA and MAT in Music; as well as an MA and Ed.D in Public School Administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After her formal \u201cretirement\u201d from public education, Dr. Springer served as Senior Director of Academic Affairs at thecollege level, an award winning after school\/summer administrator in an urban setting; as well as Head Master of a private school. She is currently an education consultant who lives happily with her husband of 41 years. They both enjoy their rustic summer home in the woods at the Jersey shore. She also loves going to the opera; as well as singing it. Karen has recorded a CD of her original song entitled, \u201cBipolar, Brite, and Blue\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This feisty lady summarizes herself in the opening quatrain of her poem, \u201cThe Good Ol’ Girl\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m just a simple good ol’ girl<\/strong>
\n who drinks her coffee black<\/strong>
\n Sips scotch as strong as iodine<\/strong>
\n and drives a Cadillac.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email:docsterpoet@comast.net<\/strong><\/p>\n

webpage: www.docsterpoet.com<\/a><\/strong>
\n 
\nrobin@artvilla.com<\/a> www.facebook.com\/PoetryLifeTimes<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

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