Available May 25th 2017

Tall Thoughts Short Poetry by T J Therien

Just a little fun

I took a course on Communism
But I was always late handing in assignments
After several poorly executed excuses
The teacher said I was Stalin
And it really affected my Marx

A Chicken’s Plight

“I feel your eyes
On my breasts and thighs
As you salaciously lick your lips
I say my goodbyes
A cock limply shrugs and sighs
To the beat of Kentucky fried drumsticks”

 

T J Therien

By Degree

I have come to determine
Everyone suffers to some extent
From some form of mental illness
Each of us takes our turn
Weaving baskets and battling windmills

 

T J Therien

Tall Thoughts Short Poetry

Yup, that’s me holding an advance first edition copy of Tall Thoughts Short Poetry to be released May 25 2017

An Open Book

Judged by its cover

The tome lies open

Dog eared

And spine broken

 

T J Therien

Spring is Sprung

Spring is sprung, Spring is sprung

To joy, to joy

Spring has sprung

Let songs of the heart be sung

Spring is sprung, Spring is sprung

T J Therien

The Un-Entitled

Get this straight,

In the US Healthcare is not a Right

It is an entitlement

And the entitlement is determined along economic lines

This entitlement creates a second class of citizen

The swath of people who cannot afford such entitlements

As seeing a doctor when they have a chronic cough

Or when they pull a muscle at work

Or when they fell down the stairs that one time they were drunk and stupid

Let alone afford their blood pressure medication

Or the baby aspirin that might keep a stroke or heart attack at bay.

Some people just aren’t entitled to those things

They can’t afford to get sick and miss work,

Let alone afford the care to get better

And so they suffer and continue to suffer

And so it shall be for the foreseeable future

T J Therien

Echoes

“I am not a crook,”

Resonates decades later,

“Russia is a ruse…”

 

T J Therien

Human Limitations

Are we all that

Enlightened, educated

Cultured and sophisticated?

 

We have the resources and abilities

To cure many of the World’s infirmities

But we don’t

Because there’s no money in it

That is why we are not civilized

And that is why we are a failed species

 

Ask yourself again

Are we all that

Enlightened, educated

Cultured and sophisticated?

 

T J Therien