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Perceptions, poems by Dave Read

This category could also be called miscellany; the closest I can come to a description to them is that they are my perceptions of various and sundry matters.

Fort Hill, Cape Cod National Seashore, July 2020; Dave Read photo.
Fort Hill, Cape Cod National Seashore, July 2020; Dave Read photo.
Easter 2025
Pulpit Humor
Easy Did It
Caveat Emptor
By Their Agreeable Quarrel
Opus Dei
Or, are we smarty pants after all
You’ll Find Poems in the Dairy Aisle
1964
Hey Kids
Be Quiet
Speaking of Which
Why JFK Had to Go
Wither Grass Roots
Red Dead + Blue Dead = Dead Dead
When Lilacs Next in Cell’d Palms Wither
Wiseguys are the New Wranglers
Botanical America, or Project 2026
Semiquincentennial Dirge
Lament for the Visually Impaired
Don’t Be So Retarded
All that glitter
They’re OK, I’m OK
If Pronouns Could talk
Charge of the Light Blue *Brigade
April is cruel to Kings, not lovers
Alma Mater, or The Football Poem
War Orphans
Which dash-American are You?
Mothers and fathers of fodder
Yes, unless
The Know Testament
Fat heads crave A.I.
Good Morning Body, Mind, & Soul
Organic prompts
A.I. is a big fat lie
What’s new is not
Dumb as a Smartphone
The Left isn’t Right, Emerson Is
They Push-We Pull
Everyday is Earth Day
Haberdashery
The Gravest Show on Earth
If it were only truth
Death Rattle
Eyesight Insight
The Sympathetic Point of Roses
Haberdashery
The American Binary
Break the News Cycle
Fraught
Principal Retardation
Terrible Twos
Not These Hollow Pols
Primary Binary
Resolution
this just in
Syllogism for Non-philosophy Majors
Boomers at war
Add title
The British Dream
Ho Hum, More Gone
The Plane Truth
The Times it is a changling
Mash note to Selfiers
Bi-PartisanWhich
Souls of gray folk
After Boomer Era
Founding Shyster
Battle them for the Republic
Let’s start over
Tyranny v. Liberty
The Saddest Thing
Saturday rosary
Did Fiona Fail Hill Republicans?
U.S.A. 1776-1964
Notes on the New Racism
Be Not Apart
Memorial Day
Unrhymed Hinge
Vital Graffiti – July 2, 2021
Hope is a Golden Noose
America’s Got Stars
TV Reality Blinder
How-to Star Search
Mothers’ Work is Never Done
Good Mount Rushmore
The Revolution, Live stream
Not to the Sea
Sonnet-19
Fear Sweeps America
Black is the new Beige
Hunker Down
at the oh boy gym
Afterparty
Art Hole in the Berkshires
Vets
The Muse Leaps Generations
Mother’s Day Handwriting Samples
Deal?
Rhymes with Chump

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