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Poet Termination DeTermination Resignation Part Fourteen

by David Lester Young — Read all 1,103 poems by David Lester Young

Why are Poets a threat, when as a Veteran they earned the Right To Write?"

Why would anyone, any entity deny an American Vietnam War Veteran, Right To Write at home on their own time That they be denied Poetry forever, then more.

Tuesday, August 15, 2023


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Poet Termination DeTermination Resignation
Part Fourteen


What is the American dream
but a façade lottery we wish upon,
once upon a fairy tale broken yoke
CPAP WOKE WAKE ping weather vane
vanity bears Alabama exhaustive
heat draining sweat pours
Washing awash wishing well
drip drop drain swishing ring
rein pounding ping pong
RIP domino game
To Be dye Selective Service past pawns
that graduate to be sent overseas
to save American Democracy
To come home sweet home clearing
DeTerminated 20 year storage,
mid sweat and despondent rein.

Why do WE Veterans write at home,
on their own time to weather
a lone rhyme commencing wail
Well worn down wishing wells swirling
mid sole of lifelines despondence
constipation weeping alone
Abrasive sandpaper hourglass quicksand
empties into see saw shores
rolling out tide’s meander ring
Banshee dost,
echo echo’s dye grave exist tense
to be a knot would statement dead
end butt voyage
Why thirst thou ever believe
in this fairy tail called America
home sweet home right to write napkins.

Resign pauper Poet dye lifeline wordsmith re~signs
Veteran lifetime WordsWorth wrought wraith
Thy sweat drains mid exhaustive Hot Alabama
heat exhaustion boil decapacitation of body fluids
Where youth verbiage fades pain,
piss me off stain yellow remembrance
vagabond trash baggage
Dew dye remains To Be sandcastles,
washing away bare dry
cleaning bones to dissolving skeletal
Men brains prawns,
who served America Domino warfare
sent overseas as blue collar expendable.

Ode to dye napkins,
what say thee among die wrinkled
pyre of ink stains worn
down to tear years
Would scan them,
but alas too fragile they RIP
mid tattered memory loss
mid rhyme recollections
Could have written upon scannable
paper cut impregnations
tarnishing yellow hell~o collections
Should have been computer
cerebral men frames and wo~men laptop,
Ode to Poetess key strokes
Wrought full be meanings
that bark a gist PoeCreation
emancipation proclamation of Free Verse.

But alas,
who are WE set a lone
to circumnavigate living life
upon 75 prone CPAP machine dreams
Knowing that one must depopulated DeTerminated
20 year Alabama Sweet Home storage cream
That one must put massive tarp outside covering
to weather ring Alabama Thunder ‘n Lightning rein
Butt dost one put it on trailer
voy~bondage to Austin to whether vane
another storage Knight Mare
Or dost Poet Veteran take time
to sort livelong lifetime to recycle
or trash to 96 gal wheel go carts.

HeArtMosphere Poet






Poet Termination DeTermination Resignation
Part Fourteen


What is the American dream but a façade lottery we wish upon, once upon a fairy tale broken yoke
CPAP WOKE WAKE ping weather vane vanity bears Alabama exhaustive heat draining sweat pours
Washing awash wishing well drip drop drain swishing ring rein pounding ping pong RIP domino game
To Be dye Selective Service past pawns that graduate to be sent overseas to save American Democracy
To come home sweet home clearing DeTerminated 20 year storage, mid sweat and despondent rein.

Why do WE Veterans write at home, on their own time to weather a lone rhyme commencing wail
Well worn down wishing wells swirling mid sole of lifelines despondence constipation weeping alone
Abrasive sandpaper hourglass quicksand empties into see saw shores rolling out tide’s meander ring
Banshee dost, echo echo’s dye grave exist tense to be a knot would statement dead end butt voyage
Why thirst thou ever believe in this fairy tail called America home sweet home right to write napkins.

Resign pauper Poet dye lifeline wordsmith re~signs Veteran lifetime WordsWorth wrought wraith
Thy sweat drains mid exhaustive Hot Alabama heat exhaustion boil decapacitation of body fluids
Where youth verbiage fades pain, piss me off stain yellow remembrance vagabond trash baggage
Dew dye remains To Be sandcastles, washing away bare dry cleaning bones to dissolving skeletal
Men brains prawns, who served America Domino warfare sent overseas as blue collar expendable.

Ode to dye napkins, what say thee among die wrinkled pyre of ink stains worn down to tear years
Would scan them, but alas too fragile they RIP mid tattered memory loss mid rhyme recollections
Could have written upon scannable paper cut impregnations tarnishing yellow hell~o collections
Should have been computer cerebral men frames and wo~men laptop, Ode to Poetess key strokes
Wrought full be meanings that bark a gist PoeCreation emancipation proclamation of Free Verse.

But alas, who are WE set a lone to circumnavigate living life upon 75 prone CPAP machine dreams
Knowing that one must depopulated DeTerminated 20 year Alabama Sweet Home storage cream
That one must put massive tarp outside covering to weather ring Alabama Thunder ‘n Lightning rein
Butt dost one put it on trailer voy~bondage to Austin to whether vane another storage Knight Mare
Or dost Poet Veteran take time to sort livelong lifetime to recycle or trash to 96 gal wheel go carts.

HeArtMosphere Poet



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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on August 16, 2023
You are absolutely right in that first line. Most Americans these days have a lottery choice rather than the American dream. There but for fortune of making the "right" choices most now end up in a struggle, late in life. Forced into poverty by the ultrarich greed, not sharing the wealth but claiming that everyone can become wealthy. A totally false notion these days.

Finally, following the old tradition of writing on napkins some of your best work, it is sad that you are unable to scan them and that they are so fragile. Perhaps you could rewrite them? Take a picture with a cell phone?

Most of my earlier poems from high school and college have simply been thrown away as having no value other than their initial intent. That is my regret now that I have so many poems online. Those poems should be here, too, but I did not recognize their value at the time. Perhaps, why I made some wrong decisions about my life early on so that the crapshoot dealt me where I am. Fortunately, in a good place, largely because of one amazing lady that never gives up on me.

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