Polemic poems by Dave Read These poems tend to be more rooted in facts on the ground than on images in the mind, alas. Observational poems by Dave Read. DeliriousBoycott and EmbargoPatriotic PronounsFace PlantsThe First One’s FreeAfter Dallas, There’s MorePartisan Scourge and Poetry PrizeMost Foul MurderBig Sister Watches EwesMutual of Idaho’s Ivory Tower Power HourBig Beautiful BombsAnti-social MediaNo Virginia, there is no Santa ClauseGoogle’s Trumpian GulpEaster 2025Pulpit HumorEasy Did ItCaveat EmptorBy Their Agreeable QuarrelOpus DeiFebruary 24, 2022Or, are we smarty pants after allYou’ll Find Poems in the Dairy Aisle1964Hey KidsBe QuietSpeaking of WhichWhy JFK Had to GoWither Grass RootsRed Dead + Blue Dead = Dead DeadWhen Lilacs Next in Cell’d Palms WitherWiseguys are the New WranglersX marks the spotBotanical America, or Project 2026Semiquincentennial DirgeLament for the Visually ImpairedDon’t Be So RetardedAll that glitterThey’re OK, I’m OKIf Pronouns Could talkCharge of the Light Blue *BrigadeApril is cruel to Kings, not loversAlma Mater, or The Football PoemWar OrphansWhich dash-American are You?Mothers and fathers of fodderYes, unlessThe Know TestamentFat heads crave A.I.Good Morning Body, Mind, & SoulOrganic promptsA.I. is a big fat lieWhat’s new is notDumb as a SmartphoneThe Left isn’t Right, Emerson IsThey Push-We PullEveryday is Earth DayHaberdasheryThe Gravest Show on EarthIf it were only truthDeath RattleEyesight InsightThe Sympathetic Point of RosesHaberdasheryThe American BinaryBreak the News CycleFraughtPrincipal RetardationTerrible TwosNot These Hollow PolsPrimary BinaryRead On, Write In, Drop OutResolutionWe are Championsthis just inSyllogism for Non-philosophy MajorsWho Am IAmanda, Dame Commander of the Lite BrigadeBoomers at warAdd titleThe British DreamHo Hum, More GoneThe Plane TruthThe Times it is a changlingMash note to SelfiersBi-PartisanWhichSouls of gray folkAfter Boomer EraFounding ShysterBattle them for the RepublicLet’s start overTyranny v. LibertyThe Saddest ThingSaturday rosaryDid Fiona Fail Hill Republicans?U.S.A. 1776-1964Notes on the New RacismPoll, Pander, Plead – RepeatGroup GodBe Not Apartill shootersCapital poetrythe deconstruction of critical race theory.Memorial DaySpring, and All that de(con)structionI Love Lois LaneThe Outer Borough Colonel, Old Bone SpurBody and Soul C.I.S.If Christ is EnglishWho Initiates Sex?the poet self-shrinksJokeR. SCDamn you, HasbroCredulity GapThe Apology of St. Andrewcrazy uncle, eh?The Madness of Saint Amy of the RobesFancy Foodie QuizDiary of a Bipartisan PoetRude or Ignobel?At the CrossroadsKill U. or it kills U.S.Blowin in the wingsin re: BDburnsUnrhymed HingeVital Graffiti – July 2, 2021Hope is a Golden NooseAmerica’s Got StarsTV Reality BlinderHow-to Star SearchMothers’ Work is Never DoneGood Mount RushmoreThe Revolution, Live streamNot to the SeaSonnet-19Fear Sweeps AmericaBlack is the new BeigeHunker Downat the oh boy gymAfterpartyArt Hole in the BerkshiresVetsThe Muse Leaps GenerationsMother’s Day Handwriting SamplesDeal?Rhymes with Chump
