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See it tumbling down
Dashing our bills to the ground
Nowhere our M.P.’s are found
Drifting along with a half-witted government
Paid, without doing the work
I couldn’t do what these jerks
Do, without losing their perks
Drifting along with a half-witted government
I know – we don’t need them
Drawing closer, that day when -
We’ll have another P.M.
Someone who listens and then -
No [...]

Christmas Hurting
(Tune: Here Comes Santa Claus)
Here comes Christmas
I can’t handle it
Expectations by all
Parties, laughter, children singing
Friends who come to call
I’m learning how to say to all
I don’t feel merry & bright
But with your support
I’ll make it through
Another long Christmas night!
and
(Tune: I’ll Be Home for Christmas)
All those drunken Christmases
All those years of pain
We can put behind [...]

(Can’t believe how many adjectives I used in this. I NEVER use adjectives. On the other hand, they are seldom so highly deserved). November 29/’08 at the first of the Saturday Puppet Shows in the Upper Canada Academy for Performing Arts in Kingston, Ontario at 260 Brock st (6130 542-9988. Wholly original and silky smooth [...]

I’m just back from a songwriting workshop stuffed with guitars and those who play them. My son who went with me, also brought his d, b and f whistles but besides that, no other instruments attended. It was given by Fireweed which is a trio of three guys, Gary Raspberry, Rob Unger and Jamie Campbell, [...]

I’m in the Fall ‘08 Antigonish Review, #154, the very first poem, Complaint. 
“It pays to be deeply suspicious of a circus
How they welcome a woman who can stick
her right foot into her left ear, smiling but
have no venue at all for a Presbyterian
minister with an important message. Or
a priest. How they erode the local [...]