{"id":6559,"date":"2014-02-04T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=6559"},"modified":"2014-02-04T14:40:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T19:40:16","slug":"i-do-not-like-pomegranate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/i-do-not-like-pomegranate\/","title":{"rendered":"I Do Not Like Pomegranate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IDoNotLIkePomegranate\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I Do Not Like Pomegranate<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I do not like\u00a0 pomegranate<\/p>\n

Theres a reason but I don’t understand it<\/p>\n

Its a four syllable word I think<\/p>\n

Just let me see I’ll take a minute<\/p>\n

Pal\u2026 mer\u2026 grand\u2026 it<\/p>\n

Yes sir, that is it<\/p>\n

And I like words like that<\/p>\n

Generally that is but<\/p>\n

Its the definition what<\/p>\n

Sticks you in the butt<\/p>\n

Pom as in palm<\/p>\n

Err as is to say let me think<\/p>\n

Grand is just grain<\/p>\n

That I just do think<\/p>\n

And say it all together<\/p>\n

all non noes is just the same but cleaver<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In A Canoe<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In a canoe I go looking for you<\/p>\n

And I hope that you do know that that is just true<\/p>\n

I ride past a big teepee<\/p>\n

And I think\u00a0 about what I don’t see<\/p>\n

The sound of water beneath my touch<\/p>\n

Just song o strange to Ron and Dutch<\/p>\n

So I just go<\/p>\n

Up from and begin to row<\/p>\n

Now waiting for the duck to move<\/p>\n

nor step out of the shanghrala groove<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0W Is For What?<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

What is W for<\/p>\n

I saw Wanda and I asked her<\/p>\n

What? She said in reply<\/p>\n

Oh, thank you much sweetie pie<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Leks And Traitors<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Leks and traitors<\/p>\n

Sponges sponge up alligators<\/p>\n

Or maybe they are crocodiles<\/p>\n

I’ll be able to\u00a0 yell at you later<\/p>\n

Go with greasy peaces<\/p>\n

shattered in and out of reaches<\/p>\n

Like leks and traitors<\/p>\n

Going back to the ranch to mediate<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My Glasses Are Upside Down<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My glasses are upside down<\/p>\n

Some one turned them around<\/p>\n

So then the fell on the ground<\/p>\n

Thus, and so, I fell on top of them<\/p>\n

Glasses broken sound like chimes<\/p>\n

Falling down in abstract rhymes<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

G. David Schwartz is the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue and Midrash and Working Out Of The Book. He currently volunteers at the Cincinnati J Meals on Wheels, and continues to write. His latest book is Shards And Verse\u00a0 (2011, Publish America).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do not like pomegranate<\/p>\n

Theres a reason but I don’t understand it<\/p>\n

Its a four syllable word I think<\/p>\n

Just let me see I’ll take a minute<\/p>\n

Pal\u2026 mer\u2026 grand\u2026 it<\/p>\n

Yes sir, that is it<\/p>\n

And I like words like that<\/p>\n

Generally that is but<\/p>\n

Its the definition what<\/p>\n

Sticks you in the butt<\/p>\n

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