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Welcome to Dan's Word Play - Reflections

I have always liked playing with words.  Poetry has been the medium I have come to like best with the goal of conveying an image or idea with minimal words.  The words tab in the menu up above has links to some pages with some of my poems and reflections.

Dan

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Some Cultural Reflections


Contra-revolution


Hail to the Chief

hail to belief

news

commercial

sitcom

sit comma

I laugh

sadly

sitcom

sit coma

sit

stay

good boy

don't go out in the street


Channel Surfing


I pick up the channel surfboard

thumb buttons up the news

suicide bomb

political statement

from the righteous

the announcer has no names

only neatly rounded numbers

sixty dead

no names

not fifty nine

and a nameless righteous man

no names

only neatly rounded numbers

600,000 unemployed this week

not 599,999

nameless men

no names

for the righteous indignation

only neatly rounded numbers

lost to sound byte history

with the next story

thumb buttons up

the history channel

searching for a righteous past

thumb buttons up

the science channel

searching for a righteous future