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New poem by TCBH! poet Gary Lindorff: The life expectancy of a homeless person is 50 years

dlindorff — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 15:31:34 +0000

A crow will never peck out the eyes of another crow.

Perhaps that is why they live longer than men.

(Paraphrase from a poem by Shukrulla.)

New TCBH! poem: 'True Story of a One-Legged Duck'

dlindorff — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 14:51:57 +0000

I was walking down the bike path

New poem by ThisCantBeHappening! resident poet Gary Lindorff: 'Endless war'

dlindorff — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 15:14:00 +0000

my mother

my child

green clay

my way

Poet’s notebook: What do I do about the mice: A pacifist's quandary'

dlindorff — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 18:10:22 +0000

It was late,

In the middle of the second half of the night.

We were asleep.

Poet’s notebook: ' Where the pipe ends'

dlindorff — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 18:07:44 +0000

The pipe ends at Standing Rock.

That is also where

We Dream the end to oil.

New TCBH! poem by resident poet Gary Lindorff: 'Viva fuerte'

dlindorff — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 14:29:35 +0000

I’m standing firm and
you’re a rock.
The plinth is fracturing.
Your filter isn’t filtering
but at least it caught this poem.

My tongue is angry!
I have a snake in my shoe.
I’m in a funk:
Why aren’t we rising up
Like a thunderhead

Like a new brain in a petri dish?
A heart-shaped leaf
is waving in the breeze.
A lavender-tinted cow
stands behind me.

She is my ally.
A bird caught in a spider’s web
who I free just in the nick of time
is announcing an event
to a girls’ soccer team.

And they are listening.
I’m re-schooling myself.
My teachers were all afraid of me.
They were afraid of their own subjects.
The tests were all slanted toward

Submission and prostitution.

New poem by TCBH resident poet Gary Lindorff -- 'Monsanto and the EPA: How are they doing?"

dlindorff — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:32:18 +0000

Monsanto is walking

With his best friend-with-benefits, the EPA:

So why are you dragging your heels

Signing off on glyphosate?

How can you know when you run? (inspired by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: ‘How can you run when you know?)

dlindorff — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:35:17 +0000

What are we running from?

Where are we going?

My feet hurt, but I don’t have time to rub them

The world is at war because it has lost peace (Pope Francis)

dlindorff — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 23:43:37 +0000

But it’s not just the world that has lost peace.

I lost my peace.

New poem by TCBH resident poet Gary Lindorff -- 'A poem about this'

dlindorff — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 11:45:38 +0000

I’m looking at a box of tissues.

It is my supermarket’s brand.

The photo on it is very beautiful and understated.

It shows a swan gliding from the left.