Lens (an acrostic poem)

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Looking through the telescope

Everything looks so much closer

Nothing is beyond his ability to observe

So the only reason he stopped was because the police knocked

Sell (an acrostic conversation)

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“So I heard you are looking for a thing.”

“Everyone is looking for a thing.  Can you be more specific?”

“Listen, if I tell you more the price is going to quadruple.  So what do you say?”

“Let me think about it.”

Tribe (an acrostic poem)

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They were always looking for a place to settle down in

Running was so tiring, and the souls of their shoes were getting holey

It would start with that awkward silence that announced the countdown to launch

But this time there was no moment of quiet in the cacophony of laughter

Everyone deserves to find where their weird is the normal, and that’s how they knew they found their people, their…

Funny (an acrostic poem)

Furiously looking for the punchline

Underneath the dross of reality

Nothing there could tease an honest chuckle out of his lips

Nothing warmed his shivering cold soul

Yet his comedy gave the world what he could never have

Replaced (an acrostic poem)

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Reading through the want ads looking for something to do.

Everyone wanted experience, and I haven’t done the time.

Perhaps in the past I would have lied and tried my best.

Learning what I could before I was given my parole.

And applying that knowledge to the next economic sentence.

Can’t believe no matter where I go, there I would chains waiting.

Eventually the robots will come and take all of it away.

Destroying our way of life and setting us free, but to do what?

Slip (an acrostic poem)

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Sliding down the road

Looking for traction among the glittering ice

Invoking different deities for divine intervention

Pounding to a stop in a snowbank ends the wild ride

Glum (an acrostic poem)

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Going to give all the words a spin

Looking for the ones that will stick together in a creative way

Under such an scrutiny the words flee from my internal dictionary

Making me feel rather…

List (an acrostic poem)

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Looking at everything that needs to be done

It gets to be so overwhelming

So you want to just make all the items disappear

That means it’s time to burn the…

Fall (an acrostic poem)

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Finding the remains of summer scattered upon the ground

As I walk along the shrinking daylight

Leaving the time of green behind

Looking toward the time of stark contrasts of dark and white

Bulky (an acrostic poem)

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Being a ballerina had always been his dream

Underneath the bright lights, dancing en pointe

Looking into infinity as he bounded across the stage

Knowing he was the center of everyone’s attention

Yet he knew that being a hippopotamus was going to make it difficult