The Junkie Next Door

Heroin - just sniff it up.
It's the new 'in' thing to do.
Don't have to feel anything.
It will feel for you.

It's easy to find,
a quick trip to the badlands
will score the fix.
Then the junkie next door
is back to the suburbs
to get her kicks.

It's the best lover ever,
the faithful friend,
but it turns against you
in the end.

Why does she do it?
To turn off the feelings.
Replace the pain with the haze.

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Earth Day Blues

So Not in the mood for a party.
The sky is gray with smog,
Industrial emissions
threaten future generations.
Toxic oceans, acid rain,
poison in the food chain.
I’ve got the Earth Day Blues.

Ozone thinning brings
extreme weather, brings
climate change and
the sun’s golden rays
now burn our crops
and melt the great glaciers.
Oceans rise, farmland floods.
Massive waves of
climate migrants moving north.
Tropical diseases and
plague to follow.
I’ve got the Earth Day Blues.

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My Tree

In my armchair, by the window
often I sit down to share
my thoughts with my favorite tree.
She stands across the street,
petite, weeping evergreen
when first we met.
Now tall and majestic,
her graceful sweeping limbs
have risen above rooftops
hiding distant mountain peaks.

My faithful friend,
through the seasons she waits for me.
With spring breezes she dances
adorned in her new dress
of delicate green growth.
In dog days of summer heat
her sweeping skirts provide
the cool dark shade where birds nest
and fat black squirrels come to hide.

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