License Plates
The New Hampshire state motto is Live Free or Die.
It’s the freest of all fifty states.
Such a deeply held feeling, which none will belie,
And it’s printed on most license plates.
To suggest we remove it makes many see red.
However, the one thing that’s worse is
Saying Live Free or Die when you’re already dead.
So we don’t put our motto on hearses.
Sanguine
Strange to say, it isn’t very
Sanguine to be sanguinary.
Bruce McGuffin’s poetry has appeared in Light, Lighten Up Online, The Asses of Parnassus, and other journals. He works intermittently as an engineer in a radio factory and lives in Antrim, NH, where he writes poetry, plays the tenor saxophone poorly, and avoids being useful. His Erdos number is 4.