Jon Yttri Poems

I would pay much more than I can ever afford
To undue the harm I have done.
Maybe God makes us bad at first
So we'll be better in the long run.
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My rich uncle loved me so much, he wouldn't include me in his will.
Because he didn't want me as a suspect in case he was murdered.
Nowhere is a compliment met with less gratitude than at a funeral.
Anyone who tells you he is afraid of death, can't be speaking from experience.
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I'm an pessimist.
I heard it will snow.
I'm an optimist.
I heard it will be ideal for skiing, snowing, and building snowmen.
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The crack and shine of opening a new textbook.
The feeling of too warm to wear a t-shirt under my shirt in the afternoon and too cold in the morning not to wear one.
The sparkling new desk on the first day of class.
Standing single-file in a crowded line carrying a tray in the cafeteria.
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Alligators have long jaws.
Lions have sharps claws.
A giraffe has a neck that reaches and reaches.
Fish go to school, but nobody teaches.
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Nostalgia is wondering what every place was like a century ago.
Nostalgia is visiting a place just because you like what used to be there.
Nostalgia is preferring record albums to cds and videotapes to dvds.
Nostalgia is preferring a mediocre old movie to a good new one.
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I know of a champion, a hero for our age.
You will not find in comic book, TV screen, or stage.
He has no magic cape to send him through the sky.
But he hastens to the rescue at each and every cry.
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Travel, travel, wherever you go.
Spending your money like h20.
Seeing the monuments, tasting the food.
Trying to limit what you can't include.
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I remember in my youth
I wasted time, to tell the truth.
There's one addiction which I had
I never broke, for good or bad.
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I don't care if you believe in God
Or proof for Him you find unsound.
We're not in the everlasting,
Our feet still touch the ground.
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