Stars and Stripes
By Connie Boje
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Stars and Stripes contains the following poems:
Stars and Stripes
As If No States As If No Countries
Americana
A Ton
At the Hand
Bike of Ride
Black Boxes
Brethren
Chain-Gang
Chosen People
Courtesy Call
Day 21
Digging Up Dirt
Excess
Freedom
Freedom II
Hook of Sand
House of Bounce
Hundred Thou
Hurtful
If We Can Jump They Can Jump Too
Intrude
Job Interview
Jump
Lemming
Library Books
Men of Free
Part Riot (Patriot)
On Going
Overcoat
Neutral
Mr Precedent
Mr Precedent II
Plead
Populationhood
Pout
Pres (s)
Pushed
Quarter
Quiz Train
Rushed
Slaughter
Specific
Table Rock
Tazzer Tech (Tech No)
The Tale of Two Houses
The Throne of Rome
Tumbled
Up to Ten
Veto Slav
Washington
Wave
Who Ate the Last Ice Cream
Whose Dog
Your Record (Part-Y)
Zine
Connie Boje
I write poetry zines and ebooks and am currently working on updating them all into Smashwords. If you are not familiar with a ZINE it is a book produced from a photo copier or a printer. I have just come back from my first zinefest in NYC held at Barnard College. I also write fiction and my first book is called SLANTBOARD which takes place in the future where people can ride on boards that float a little off the ground nor do they go much over 10 miles and hour so they have a similar culture to long-distance bike riding. Thanks for reading!
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Stars and Stripes - Connie Boje
STARS AND STRIPES
By Connie Boje
2014-2016 SMASHWORDS EDITION
S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S
star shine be mine up on a movie screen
happy people living life with every pore
big wig gig fake eyelash lashing black lines
teared drops black too glossy lips red
kiss kiss
striped shirts ankle bracelets black strap
in the hot sun moving over green grass barren
cemented city highway chasing pushing paper
until the warden speaks and away they go
bus bus
what 'bout us the in-between neither one
nor the other our stars on the screen nor
striped horizontal lines we are here today
we are gone tomorrow what ever did that
piece of waving freedom mean stars and
stripes was a nation where peace remained
until they flew it lower and lower for whoever
until you had to ask who else has died stars and
stripes forever lulled asleep like at beddy bye
believing the parents whatever lie they said
go to sleep little ones go to sleep it will
soon be over G O T O S L E E P
A S I F N O S T A T E S
A S I F N O C O U N T R I E S
countries are such a bother aren't they
they get in the way of so many
INCONVIENCES in life
I just do not know what to do
if countries dissolve into a
CAKE of mash
cooked up in the oven
until cracks appear
because too much batter
was in the cake