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The Seagull’s 239^th Seguidilla 

 

Gulls like to move where freedom 

And prosperity 

Are found. Belittled tunes are

Belted out by he

With a quiet charm.

With fantastic faintness comes

Sofa-soft reform. 

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The Seagull’s 245^th Seguidilla 

 

Another midafternoon’s

Misandry upends

My swashbuckling. Gulls esteem

Death par excellence

Today as much as

Previous eras did actors,

Newsmen and witches.

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The Seagull’s 273^rd Seguidilla 

 

I’d rather be a chessboard

Than a pawn, since bad

Advice outnumbers grains of

Sand. I’d beseech God, 

“Let my lover be

A voyage of discovery…”

Autumn votes for me.

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The Seagull’s 274^th Seguidilla 

 

“Are you the child of beach and 

Sea? All day beseech 

Is all you do!” In autumn’s

Distant, windy speech

I don’t hear love, its

Eloquent, elected hush

Which swims like Mark Spitz. 

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The Seagull’s 275^th Seguidilla 

 

To pass the time, I went on

The most important 

Fact-finding mission ever.

Into her constant

Heart and its Office

Of Fidelity I went

To sip her coffees.

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Jake Sheff is a pediatrician and veteran of the US Air Force. He’s married with a daughter and a crazy bulldog. Poems and short stories of Jake’s have been published widely. Some have even been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and the Pushcart Prize. A full-length collection of formal poetry, “A Kiss to Betray the Universe,” is available from White Violet Press. He also has two chapbooks: “Looting Versailles” (Alabaster Leaves Publishing) and “The Rites of Tires” (SurVision).