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5 Poems by Carl Bernard Schwartz

I ONLY SPEAK ENGLISH

While I have taken classes
or been otherwise exposed to

English, Latin, Spanish, 
German, Hebrew, Yiddish,
Roman and Arabic numerals, 
Logic – Formal Reasoning,
Civil Procedure Before Trial,
and Adaptive PE

I just don’t seem to have
the brain power to
intelligently
converse in 
anything 
but 		English


And Latin is now all in 
past tense, anyway
isn’t it?

~~

CHOICES, CHOICES

Each holiday season,
my late wife and I would
bring home a spiral-sliced ham

This year, I decided to try
something different, so I
sampled the Birming Ham
and the Got Ham

But again, the spiral-sliced
ham won the day for having 
meat we wanted to eat

~~

I LOOK AWAY WHEN I COMB MY BEARD

Watch a lot of TV,
primarily news
shows that use 
close-ups of 
male and 
female
newscasters 
so one sees a 
nice smile despite 
abundant makeup

then they pan down
and show the 		neck
which makes one
think turtle as 
it betrays 
wrinkles 
that must 
be hundreds 
of years older			
than that smile

~~

SHAPED BY THE PAST

My dearest
parents 
resisted
the keen
pressure
applied by
domineering
relatives
who never
had kids,
to help 
raise the
ones in
our
household,

these kin
would
approach
our doorstep
with the 
vivacity of
door-to-door 
salesmen
so the front 
door was
basically
kept 
bolted shut
to block out 
unwelcome
visitors

thus if it
seems like
my social
skills are
shallow, 
that’s 
because 
the brain
cells that
would hold
such 
experience
were left
dormant
in my
head

I 
could
be the
world’s
greatest 
host, but
I’d rather
		not
deal 
with
that

~~

FOR LOVE OF BOOKS

There was a 
small
library branch
very near 
the elementary
school I 
attended.
I would
pop in there
almost daily
and check
out a book

cumulatively
I read all
their science 
fiction books
and all their
whaling adventure
books, and
elsewhere
bought paperback
editions of 
Tom Swift
Huckleberry Finn,
etc., etc.
then I matriculated
to junior and senior
high school,
which imposed
some very heavy
textbook 
assignments
 on 			different
subjects, all
of which was
required reading,
and this 
extinguished
the flame that
had inspired my
recreational
reading		until
I concluded college,
started earning
money
and finally had
the time and
wherewithal
to resume my
recreational 
reading
I bought a book
by a bestselling
author on preorder
read it cover to cover
in one sitting 
like I had used to
casually read those 
library books,
sitting in a park
while shucking
and nibbling
sunflower seeds;
more recently
I poured over a
couple books
of poetry  
hence my 
personal library
is once again
growing

Copyright © 2026 Carl Bernard Schwartz
All Rights Reserved

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Thank you for this interesting view into the past

I'm not surprised that he's said that.

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Over here Smart TV's are dumb, because I don't connect them to My internet gateways.

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@bryan

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Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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#Locked (2025)
A thief breaking into a luxury SUV realizes that he has slipped into a sophisticated game of psychological horror.
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3/5 ⭐️ - Sir Anthony lifts this Psychological Thriller despite only visibly being in half of it.