NO POOP FOR YOU…!


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Sitting In Toilet Stock Photo

Let’s face it when you’ve got to go
The only thing you want to know
“A bathroom, is there one nearby?”
A human right they can’t deny

Yet there are those who have control
Over who gets to use the bowl
And the judgment that they render
Is determined by our gender

Used to be signs on the door
Designating who it was for
One sign read She, the other He
But now that number’s up to three

“Those damn transgenders are to blame!”
The right wing politicians claim
“Women be women, men be men
Make America great again!”

Europeans know how to pee
Single toilets marked WC
One at-a-time equality
Whatever future genders may be.

c2016pn

DONALDETICUS TRUMPILIUS

Human Evolution from Ape to Man Royalty Free Stock Photography

American Neanderthal
Seems like the perfect name to call
Those goons who crowd around his stage
Like cavemen from the Iron Age

Their eyes are bugged, their mouths are wide
They wave their fists from side to side
A thousand strong to hear the king
Yet they don’t bother listening

Hateful language The Donald spews
For them is hardly breaking news
Their lack of judging right from wrong
Was theirs before Trump came along

But what they never had was hope
Some pride when being called a dope
Trump proved dumb is worth defending!”
#Neanderthal may soon be trending.

c2016pn

The Political Mouth


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The Political Mouth                                        th

The political mouth is loud
It grabs attention in a crowd
Up on the stage the smile is wide
But get in closer, look inside

At stains that white-strips won’t erase
From lies they told to win the race
And once that mouth is elected
Rancid gums become infected

The whispered stench of secret deals
Becomes the spit to grease the wheels
Political teeth start to grind
So many pockets to be lined.
(c)2016pn

FACE VALUE

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FACE VALUE
What’s with faces that need to hide
Whenever they appear outside?
Belonging to the human race
Requires that you have a face
It’s not a bigoted request
And failure doesn’t mean arrest
But without cheeks, a mouth and nose
It’s just fabric from head to toes
Floating like ghosts on Halloween
That private world of the unseen
Shouldn’t mean immunity
From joining our community
Of men and women, boys and girls
Dark hair, blond hair, buzz cut, curls
We wink, we frown, we cry, we grin
Draw your curtains and let us in.
c2016pn

Poetically Correct


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Mom's Family: Alice vs. The Electric Typewriter

POETICALLY CORRECT

Hurry up imagination
Breaking news on every station
Need to cover each disaster
Wish the words were coming faster
Something for the Paris sorrow
Said they wanted it tomorrow
San Bernardino needs a verse
To help dispel their ISIS curse
The global warming wears me out
Deadly floods and quakes and drought
Are squeezing me day after day
For still another way to say
That life is just a coin that’s tossed
Some lives are saved, some lives are lost
A tale for novelists to tell
“My cell phone’s ringing. Where the hell…?”
c2016pn

Pregnant Witch


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witch-snow-white-smokeDon’ talk to me about love and kisses
Wedding bells, Mr. and Mrs.
Marriage? What a fairy tale
Give ‘em time, they’re bound to fail

Something I’ve never understood
That wolf from Little Red Riding Hood
One date with him and look at me
The fifth month of my pregnancy

A little witch inside me grows
It’s got these ears, this crooked nose
I nourish it with wholesome meals
Bugs and insects, worms and eels

I’m making sure the child will be
A spitting image of hideous me
A sickly thing prone to disease
So I’m lighting up a lot of these

Cigarettes cause low birth weight
Breathing disorders can seal its fate
A cleft palate and birth defects
Are what a smoking mom expects

It fills a witch’s heart with glee
To deliver a kid as unhealthy as me
So light up a butt my sweet Valentine
And your baby could turn out just like mine!

c2015pn
Read Peet Nourjian’s previous poems here.

 

 

‘Good To Go’


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modern, wallpaper, train, white, miscellaneous, trainsRemember when you were a teen
And couldn’t wait to make the scene
Behind the wheel of your own car
Driving made you a superstar
But freedom on the open road
Was cut short as the traffic slowed
“A sign of progress” experts said
Congestion means full steam ahead

Remember your first airline seat
Runway rumble beneath your feet
The look of wonder in your eyes
As you wing through the friendly skies
Then flying lost some altitude
Lines got long, they stopped serving food
Like sardines in a sardine can
Congestion is their business plan

Remember your first railroad ride
The panorama countryside
Rambling by on iron wheels
The club car waiter serving meals
And then one day the train was new
More frequency and comfort too
But most of all it was faster
Racing to its own disaster

Traveling is a right they missed
On our Constitutional list
We need to get from here to there
By means that aren’t a double-dare
Drive a car and the road could sink
Is your pilot seeing a shrink?
Washington, invest the dough
Make America GOOD TO GO.

c2015pn
Read Peet Nourjian’s previous poems here.

‘Recommend Rhode Island’


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peet poemIndiana and Arkansas
Champions of religious law
Determined that the scriptures say
“You won’t be served if you are gay”

Rhode Island has religion too
Our common sense shapes what we do
“You’ll never get served if you’re rude
Or have a lousy attitude”

Indiana and Arkansas
Are family states where Ma or Pa
Want neighbors to be just like them
No handsome women or pretty men

Rhode Island’s more a people state
The mixing is what makes it great
Freedom to live and love and play
No matter what the scriptures say

c2015pn
Read Peet Nourjian’s previous poems here.

‘St. Maryjane’


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pot plant mountainsMuslim, Christian, Hindu, Jew
The hell religion puts us through
Murdering in the name of God
Is more than just a little odd

One religion commits no crime
And you can worship anytime
No statues just some sticky weed
Rolling paper is all you need

Instead of prayer you take a toke
The answers show up in the smoke
It fills our heads with peace and love
Not words of war from up above

They say communion wine is blood
Commune with nature, burn a bud
St. Maryjane, you are superb
Baptize the world with your sweet herb

c2015pn
Read Peet Nourjian’s previous poems here.

‘Bad Apples’


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bad-apple

“One Bad apple” is what they say
Explaining when cops go astray
But now a better line might be
“Be careful where you plant the tree”

Like many men who join the force
They choose a military course
Of war beneath the desert sun
Before they earn a policeman’s gun

Most cops are filled with civic pride
But some have demons deep inside
Grim flashbacks to hostile faces
Battle scars from foreign places

Soldiers learn how to determine
Sunni’s from Shiites by their skin
But once back home they’re not allowed
To profile faces in a crowd

America, land of the free
Is filled with ambiguity
Let’s make sure racial killing stops
Our veterans should not be cops

c2015pn
Read Peet Nourjian’s previous poems here.

Poem: ‘April Fools’


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November 9th, Twenty-Sixteen
Words crawl across my TV screen:
GOP WINS THE WHITE HOUSE BACK
My chest felt like a heart attack

I called my friends so we could grieve
Some were packing, ready to leave
Others asked me, “How could we lose?”
Still others drowned their tears in booze

The only hope we could embrace
Lay with the House and Senate race
But red states were on a roll
Republicans took full control

The first sign things weren’t like before
My doc moved to a Walmart store
ObamaCare – too socialized
So now all healthcare’s privatized

Keystone pipeline that wasn’t built
Assured us that no oil was spilt
Now crude is pumped in each time zone
With fracking sites in Yellowstone

Small business climbed out of its rut
Now that minimum wage got cut
The Equal Pay for Women Act?
Big biz made sure it wasn’t backed

Immigration is finally fixed
Thanks to a border wall of bricks
Built by any Mexican who
Gets an ID number tattoo

Guns and books are now the rule
Arming teachers in every school
Bus drivers too, and postal clerks
Ready for whatever danger lurks

America gets even worse
Lucky for you I’m out of verse
Suffice to say if this comes true
The April Fools are me and you

c2015pn
Read Peet Nourjian’s previous poems here.

Poem: ‘No Brainer’


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PHOTO JACK NICHOLSONMetal detectors spot a gun
That’s good news for everyone
But we’re not really safe until
They pass a mental detector bill

Decades ago institutions
Were the only sane solutions
For a challenged population
Seeking help throughout our nation

But we remember ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’
Insane patients under arrest
Forced to live in filth and squalor
Tortured souls who’d scream and holler

The media exposed the crime
Politicians wasted no time
Cutting funds immediately
Letting psychotics wander free

Homeless is where they wandered to
Tragic faces hidden from view
Harmless victims hurting no one
Harmless until one finds a gun

Too often lawyers make the plea
“Not guilty from insanity”
But none of us are safe until
We care for our mentally ill

c2015pn
Read Peet Nourjian’s past poems here.

Poem: ‘Oklahoma Pity’


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oklahoma-fraternity
A University of Oklahoma fraternity was shut down for using a racist chant after widespread protest. Click the image for details.

The frat boys from Oklahoma
Long for days when the aroma
Of burning crosses late at night
Made men like them proud to be white

A far cry from my frat house when
We made headlines by being men
Who drank too much and on a dare
Would drop our pants most anywhere

College rules there for the breaking
Morning bongs there for the baking
No ladies allowed in our bunks
Meant cozy love in steamer trunks

Students thrived on bad behavior
Risky capers were our savior
When heavy workloads made us groan
Not to mention the student loan

Today frat boys from Oklahoma
Won’t be earning their diploma
Because tradition in the south
Has left them with a racist mouth

But ask yourself, what steered them wrong
To insult classmates with their song
Like Klansmen did a few years back
Or cops who shoot when they see black?

c2015 pn
Read Peet Nourjian’s past poems here.

American Hackers Unite

anonymous-hackers‘Robin Hoods of the Internet’
A bold headline young hackers get
When they’re successful breaking code
To steal a data mother-load

It’s true what they do is a crime
We all agree they should serve time
Normal crooks would be no fuss
But hackers? They’re smarter than us

Computers handle all we do
Imagine life before we knew
That friends were just a text away
And headlines on our phone display

But world wide web means terror too
Social networks attract those few
Who feel that ISIS is their chance
To join the rebels’ pagan dance

American Hackers unite!
We need your genius in this fight
Crashing their communication
Guarantees recruit stagnation

c2015pn
Click here for more political poetry from Peet Nourijian

Nap Quest


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America with all its might
Protects our homeland from the fight
But rebels have a way to creep
Into our lives while we’re asleep

My bedroom used to be the place
Where I’d depart the human race
A pillow underneath my head
Anticipating dreams ahead

Sound sleep helps us rejuvenate
Revives us if we’re up too late
The eyes are how you always tell
When someone hasn’t slept too well

But that’s the way it used to be
Now sleep is just a memory
Of how life was before the sight
Of bodies on the news each night

Young children slaughtered in their school
A pilot doused with rocket fuel
Then set ablaze while people cheer
A blade cuts off a woman’s ear

We’re far away from all of it
Yet feel the pain from where we sit
Then try to shut it out in bed
But shut the horror in instead

Insomnia is on the rise
Dark circles under tired eyes
Like landmines on a Kabul road
Our minds are ready to explode
c2015pn

late-riser

‘Irritable Bowl Syndrome’


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‘Footballs Plagued By Leaky Bladders’
Great headlines are all that matters
When papers print and networks air
Stories that increase market share

Based on hearsay instead of facts
They fabricate whatever it lacks
‘Cheaters, liars’ are names they use
Building a case without any clues

Innocent means that we turn away
Guilty! we’re glued day after day
When media gets us on their side
Their advertisers smile with pride

The clock ticks down to Super Bowl
Football frenzy is out of control
Not for the Seahawks to repeat
But for bad boy Brady to get beat
c2015pn

deflategate

Poison pens


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poison penDoodles on a cocktail coaster
Moustache on a George Bush poster
Cartoons were how my pals and me
Unwound at night in NYC
We dreamed of getting paid to draw
A fading dream each time we saw
True artists fill a square with ink
That made you smile and made you think

But what a strange and heinous time
Murder and cartoon share my rhyme
Tragic and senseless all agree
But something has occurred to me
The artists in our magazines
Seek out the humor in our genes
The quirks, the traits, our basic flaws
Are simple truths that give us pause

Others draw with a sharper pen
Ridiculing women and men
In cartoons judging them absurd
For following their Prophet’s word
It’s time to drop the poison pens
And vow all hateful drawing ends
Let’s make our squares inclusive space
That reunites the human race
c2015pn

A pain worse than death


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tortureMuslim terrorists want to die
Death is their ticket to the sky
Where heaven offers rich rewards
For each neck slit with ISIS swords
By killing them what do we gain?
Instead of death consider pain
Torture can take them to the brink
Soul-piercing pain to help them think
About a war where they don’t die
But wish they could each time we try
A new, improved torture technique
That makes them scream and makes them weak
Word spreads fast through desert terrain
Instead of death a life of pain
Breeds fear recruits cannot ignore
When contemplating jihad war
Torture, not for information
Torture that brings resignation.

c2014PN

A Rhode Island Christmas poem


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Marijuana holiday bush
Angels carved from calamari
Candles stuck in ‘Gansett bottles
Santa in a red Ferrari

Christmas in the Ocean State
Big Blue Bug blinks big red nose
Off-key carols by Cardi brothers
River burns and saxophone blows

As snow-flakes fill Rhode Island skies
Forgiveness swells inside of us
Except for all those politicians
Who threw us under the RIPTA bus

But hope is what this season brings
That once again our littlest state
Can embolden our diversity
And show the world that small is great.

c2014pn

State House Holiday Tree
State House Holiday Tree, 2013

Vegilantes


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I heard it at the garden gate
Carrots, turnips, all irate
Lettuce, sprouts and green beans too
Angry vegetables in a stew

“We’ve got an image to protect
So how come when a car gets wrecked
The headlines scream the victim’s fate
‘He’s in a vegetative state’

Now veggies aren’t a brilliant bunch
Less intellect, more taste and crunch
But we hurt from this cruel campaign
Comparing greens to scrambled brains

Help put an end to all the fuss!
‘Carnivorous state’ works for us”

                                                       c2013pn


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