The Dandy
Walks off the bus
Gracefully
Opens his umbrella
Strolls
Like he stepped off a private jet
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Coppersmith
Pounds
Metal
All day long
Creating
Souvenirs
Sold to tourists
Keeping
Traditional
Craftsmanship
Alive
Allowing
Workers to survive
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Bending down
Pulling weeds
Picking up
Gigantic
Sea grape tree leaves
Natural
Garden
Exercise
Relaxes
Me
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Tangier
International City
Cavernous hotel bar
Full of unusual characters
Barely remember
Was it her smile and perfume?
Or
Exotic African & Middle Eastern music?
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549
Rode Ferris wheel
Round and Round
Never looked down
Plenty of honey
1/4 ashes
Midlife
Looking back
Great ¾
Forget
Disasters
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In the eBook ‘Peeling Off The Human Condition’, ‘The Hermit Poet’ explores the daily life we all see and endure as a society.The poems and stories in this eBook expose acts we see daily, but don’t confront or talk about. Behavior that makes us humans, no doubt, but that also bring us to ask: “Where are we going from here?”
Life moves quicker than ever imagined. Many technological advancements decrease the human value. We kill each other for greed, religion and dysfunctional ideologies. Communication is done via screens controlled by media that convert us into piranhas. We continuously swallow down the venom. Artificial intelligence takes way our jobs, it enters our homes to watch, keep track and eventually destroy normal life.
In a time when we are told what to do and think “Peeling Off The Human Condition” is thought-provoking.
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Table of Contents
1 | Book Cover
2-8 | Featured Poems
9 | Credits
10-11 | Foreword
12-20 | Introductory Poems
CHAPTERS
21-34 | Life – The Daily Grind
35-41 | Life – The Games
42-49| Life – Bad Characters
50-54 | Life – Poverty
55-59 | Society
60-63 | Technology & Humans
64- 69| The Bad Dealers
70-83 | Stories
84-95 | The Hermit Poet (Poems & Bio)
96-97 | Miscellaneous
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Not much today
Sitting under coconut tree
Resting in shade
Drinking pink lemonade
Watching Atlantic Ocean waves
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547
Stack up like CBS blocks
Recognition
Across
Boards
Falling on slippery floors
Leading to locked doors
Build fortress
Everything else could become worthless
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546
Church bells ring
Nearby
Cemetery
Gravestones
Stand still
Down below
Decomposed
In permanent homes
The occupants
No longer sing
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545
California
Works
Copacabana Beach
He provides Gringos
Beach chairs
Food
Chopps
Caipirinhas
Introduction to a female friend is FREE
Great time
Hot sol
South of Equator
Hook up with new lady friend
Dinner
Dancing
Whatever
Later
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544
First morning duty
Barefoot
Sweeping
All
187
Stepping stones
That
Form
Winding
Pathways
Throughout
Zen
Tropical garden
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543
I write to keep my mind occupied.
If not, I would need to go outside.
Jump
On
Escalator
Pretending
I’m rising
Keeping pace
With the tribe
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542
The Temptress
Lured
Me
Into her domain
We made a deal
I lost
Now I’m secured with rusty chains
Kneeling
Eternally
Hers
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541
Everyday
Wears
White Tilley hat
Multicolored braid
Walks with a cane
Slowly crosses A1A
Sits in chair
On beach sand
Next to lifeguard stand
Writing short stories that do not sell
What the hell
Lost ambition long ago
Would not trade situation
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540
Big Boys
Control
Pipeline
Minnows
Wait in line
Begging
For
Scraps
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539
Twist
Turn
Jab here
Jig there
Testing
How far I can throw the line
Get up cleaning off dirt
Hey Dude
“You have holes in your shirt”
“No problem Stan
I’m not like you
Always
Spick- and- Span
Cannot come up with a couple of grand”
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538
Scraped barrel clean
No more suffering
Everything OK you say
Glad to see you’re on sunny side of day
I’m still covered with acid rain
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372
Quick catch make-believe
Fungus grows on sea grape tree
Close hatch! Will truth last?
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367
Rats smell homemade soup
Clawing biting can’t get through
Stymied inside roof
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365
Bottle of cachaça
Ceiling fan spins
Dust dancing in the air
Bossa Nova warms my insides
Looking out window
I see deception rising with tide.
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361
Sit
Face wall
Feed
Chipper
Voyage to insignificant place
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358
Forget bars of gold
Quick to sleep no alarm clock
She never gets old
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338
Night rain
Frogs
Croaking
Two owls snuggle trying to stay dry.
I’m under awning eating bowl of steamed vegetables and rice.
Soon
Mosquitoes
Bite
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336
I’m
climbing a
ladder
hauling
hefty
buckets of tar sealant to the rooftop.
Then I begin
scooping,
spreading,
patching,
thinking,
that
nothing says shack ownership,like fixing a roof leak.
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330
Single
Mother
Boy has no father.
She purchases very little fresh fruits and vegetables.
Mostly buys frozen and cans of food to save dollars.
Shares small apartment with another mother
Patch old car
Today
Repair
Radiator
Next Quarter
Starter
Always struggling to make sure bills are paid.
No free time and does not date.
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329
Large clump bananas
Hang from back porch wood beam
Snacks while working garden
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328
She calls herself a mutt.
Mix
Dutch
Portuguese
Amazon Indian
Black
Her broken English never holds her back.
Came from a dictatorship turned Socialist experiment when lawyers and dentists drove taxicabs.
Now lives in a country where the sky is the limit if one breaks their back.
She is an American.
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326
Two
Day
Cheap
Bus
Ride
Varanasi
To
Kathmandu
Hours on the bus rooftop
Lost
Within
The mountain scenery
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325
Dry season
Begins
Termites
Stop
Eating
Shack
Fire ants
on
Warpath
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Daybreak
Doves dart from ancient gigantic ficus tree.
Today
Unlucky one dies because no match for the falcon’s speed.
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319
Driving
Old
Truck
Collecting
Metal Trash
Selling for a small amount of cash
Many
Do not look my way
Maybe
Afraid
Thinking
They could also end up picking through garbage one day.
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318
Midnight
Sitting
on a Mexican blanket
drinking cocoa and coffee
watching
the waves
crash against the rocks.
Thinking about how
plummeting
into the depths of failure,
surviving,
regrouping,
and charging back,
is more beneficial
than
always
winning.
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317
All-night
I push the broom
Wet mop the floors
Clean the restrooms
Haul
Trash
Out the back door
Work done
Every muscle sore
On my way home, I stop at the liquor store.
Tomorrow
I go back for more
309
Watching
his car burn
on the side of the freeway,
he decided
it was time to take a long holiday.
308
Strong wind
Light rain
Coconuts fall on metal tool shed with a bang
Hanging gong continues to clang
Wind chimes dance and shriek
Waterbed starting to leak
Impossible to sleep
307
Tide Rolls out
Leaving behind seaweed clinging to the rocks
Exposed to hot sun
Dependent
On the ocean
For life to carry on
304
Scrambling the eggs
Fish rot on the dock today
Nothing left but hate
303
Hole in the window screen
Mosquitoes
Enter
Search
Locate
Feast
Leave
302
Yogurt
Topped
With blueberries and honey
Three-way organic concoction
Cools down my tummy
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