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Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Comparison, Competition, Excellence, Literature, Perseverence, Sports / July 18, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The odds are overwhelming

Every time we play the game
we find ourselves on a level field
with the all time all world all star team

Homer, Whitman, Rumi and Omar Khayyam
Wordsworth, Shakespeare (or whoever wrote his stuff)

It's like always batting against Nolan Ryan on his best day
Like trying to strike out Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams
Babe Ruth (without a hangover) and Reggie Jackson in October

Great poets never tire or retire, they just die
and still play wiht their best stuff

Soccer players today don't have to play Pelé every day
But with translations and free agents
we write up against Neruda, Viello and Paz

Or heads up against Leo Tolstoy and Anna Ackmanova
with an East German judge

But we play

A Tear for the Rich

Audio Recordings / tagged Comparison, Consumerism, Disparity, Greed, Poverty, Salvation, Wealth / February 23, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The other guy has a bigger jet
and the Concordes are all gone

The trophy wife turned out
when scratched to be gild not gold

You don't like the poor anymore
and them that's richer don't like you

And there is this thing with God
and what it might cost for his nod

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