Memorial Day

Rows and columns march –

stark and solemn reminders

of the true cost of freedom.

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Today we honor

those who surrendered their lives

so we might be free.

Profit and Loss

At what cost, writing?

And at what price is meaning

when sacrificed to profit?

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Writers profit by

finding meaning and pleasure

in the words that come their way.

Common Profit?

Tell me, my poet

friend, do you think folks mostly

do the best they can?

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Good folk do their best,

but greedy folk make their buck

at the cost of all the rest.