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The Light’s Gone Out

Posted: August 9, 2019 in Poetry
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Panic in Times Square CBS News
 The Light's Gone Out
By David Allen

It’s getting darker in America
We have somehow lost the dawn
We move slowly as the light dims
And wonder what went wrong

Lady Liberty’s torch is out
It no longer lights the way
We choke on the wisps of smoke 
As we face darker days.

Fear and hate now rule the land
It’s the opposite of our dawn
When we welcomed the huddled mass
Escaping foreign wrongs.

But now a motorcycle backfire
Scares hundreds in Times Square
Afraid the next mass shooting
Could very well be there.

And we train children in our schools
How to hide or run or duck
When some shooter comes calling
Some crazed soul run amok.

It’s the opposite of dawn
This nightmare land of fear
And when we’ll see the sun again
Isn’t very clear. 

 

									

			

						

				

					
SCARED

					
						Posted: October 25, 2014 in Poetry						

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SCARED

By David Allen


Want to know what scares me?

 Running out of ink when inspiration strikes

 Blank paper

 Complaining to my wife when she’s off her meds

 Being stranded in a doctor’s examination room

 Buying gas on the weekend

 Forgetting birthdays

 Having a birthday

 Running out of crossword puzzles in the bathroom

 Running out of toilet paper

 Getting a phone call from my bank

 Getting late night phones call from my children

 Going with my wife to a church rummage sale

 Stepping on a scale

 Looking in a mirror first thing in the morning

 Looking at my hair after a nap

 Being late for anything

 Forgetting a word

 Forgetting someone’s name

 Balancing my checkbook

 Not having a deadline

 Shopping for groceries

 Winter

 Credit scores

 Visiting a trailer park during a tornado watch

 My wife asking me if new pants make her look fat

 Having to run away

 My cable TV bill

 My cell phone bill

 Finding hair on my brush

 Pizza from Pizza King

 Brussels sprouts

 Fruitcakes

 Cabbage

 A plain bagel

 Pea soup

 Vegetarians

 Highway rotaries

 Barber shops

 My wife’s silence when I create a pun

 My wife’s silence when I crack a joke

 My wife’s silence

 Silence from the voice in my head

 Silence

 Lawyers

 Doctors

 Politicians

 Preachers

 Armed Teabaggers

 Donald Trump’s hair

 Insurance salesmen

 Anderson, Indiana

 V-neck sweaters

 Swimming without a shirt

 Radical Muslims

 Radical Christians

 Radical Jews

 Radical Hindus

 Radical Atheists

 Running out of chocolate

 Empty bookcases

 My garage

 My wife’s shoe closet

 Riding in a car as a passenger

 Funeral parlors

 Walmart

 GPS voices

 Bagpipes

 Prescription drug commercials

 Emus

 Guam’s kamikaze crows

 Palm readers

 Psychics

 Fortune cookies

 Goodbyes


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