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summa: highest.

where: location.

summa where

syncopation steals the show

understanding helps us though

making waves from there to here

molding vision not to veer

apex when we persevere

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Afterword: I continue to struggle to regain my footing, both with drawing and with acrostic poetry composition. The late comic-book writer Denny O’Neil wrote a feature in some comics called “From the Den” and he always ended the column with the fine two-word mantra “Perseverance furthers.” Here’s to that sentiment, and to Mr. O’Neil’s spirit.

grumpface

on the third visit to the phone store

trying to get something done and being asked

yet again for numbers they should already have

the man’s face twisted from harmless geezer

to grumpy threat

and the customer service rep hurries

but fumbles

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but does his professional best

and now tells grumpface

it should only be another two hours

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or so

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except in rare cases

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suddenly grumpface ceases to be with a smile

thanks the man

laughs maniacally

and leaves

it is march, it’s the first/so let us now burst/right out of the sprung starting gate

and march with elan/and gusto and brawn/against all the forces of hate

to take back the senate/is vital now when it/enables this evil regime

and also the house/oust the speaker, that mouse/who has made his dictator’s eyes gleam.

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we’ll need plenty of moxie/ourselves, not a proxy/applying epoxy and salve

so let’s march and reseize/and thus cure the disease/that afflicts all we live for and have.

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Historical note: We have American casualties now, in the unauthorized war on Iran, and the blood of more than half a hundred schoolgirls is on our hands. As an American I am filled with shame and anger. We need to find our way, the TRUE American Way, again.