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Collected Poems

Dear [poet’s name here], I will gladly shell out for your Collected Poems – after you’re dead.

Summer

A cheeky robin pecks at my al fresco lunch. BANG! ………No more robin.

A sympathetic reminder from the eco lobby, in this, your time of mourning

The ocean is miles away. (Think of the carbon footprint!) Why not have your relatives gather round the downstairs toilet and dump the ashes there?

Ever young

– If you die young enough, you see everything. – And yet, dying old, you still haven’t seen enough.

Zacarias Moussaoui vs the State of Virginia

Why the US should avoid a tempting catharsis in the case of the would-be 9/11 hijacker. — For The Atlantic Affairs