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Randomling 1: Matthew Macfadyen I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen He inspires in me a terribly bad yen But as poetry goes His name 'spires woes Cause nothing rhymes with "Macfadyen”. Randomling 2: Birthday Wishes For my birthday, I would like a man. I wonder---can you get one from a can? Or maybe from a catalog? Maybe I'll just get a dog. Randomling 3: Yet Another Cat Poem Cats: toddlers in fur senior citizens with retractable claws lions in their own minds lunch in the minds of dogs. Randomling 4: Desert Woes A sage river in a field of sand: so flows hope in a barren land; the crippled heart in prosthetic steel, hacked and scarred, a vulture’s meal. Randomling 5: Dark Poetry Follow poetry to its source; There find heartbreak and remorse. Follow poetry to the bitter end, And there find death, its bosom friend. Randomling 6: Ode to Bananas Bananas an unappreciated fruit sentenced to banananality because yellow is their long suit Randomling 7: Untitled Sorry, this heart is closed to deposits. There's no more room for pain. Randomling 8: Untitled My heart is sealed in a cold steel vault, and I’ve lost the combination. Randomling 9: Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A man as useful as a tree. One has uses by the score; The other one is apt to snore. Randomling 10: Bedtime Prayers Now I lay me down to sleep, A leaden heart is mine to keep. If I should die before I wake-- Now there’s an offer I’d gladly take. Randomling 11: The Devil Wind Tornadoes Fury with a smoky tail Eddies of destruction Deceitful beauty, enchanting danger Death sporting a makeover ____________________________________________________________________________________ DON'T READ #12 IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR ME TALK TO MY SON ABOUT CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE BIRDS AND BEES_________________________ Randomling 12: A Boy's Best Friend "Your —it is not a toy," I told my little son. " O yes it is," he parried me. "It's quite my favorite one." Randomling 13: Fault Lines I have a bathroom mirror that's grown faulty over time. My reflection is no longer true; it's developed little lines! Randomling 14: Shakespeare 101 “To be or not to be. That is the question.” --What question? THE question! --Whaddya mean, THE question? Never mind. Randomling 15: Christmas? Peace on earth to men of good credit Who give the gift of corporate profit in the holy name of commercialism. Randomling 16: Musical Believer Though my conscience sleeps, wrapped in the Valium of agnosticism, it awakens to the music of Mozart-- once more knowing God by the sound of His voice. Randomling 17: Vacuum I didn't write a poem when you died. The words would not come. Perhaps I felt too deeply, perhaps not enough; or maybe I died too. 10/06/01 Randomling 18: Insanity Insanity is underrated Its drawbacks,much overstated. How else to do what you darn well please And accomplish it with so much ease? Randomling 19: Dog Day Afternoon WATER! BALL! CHASE! salt, waves, undertow? I don't know what's going on here, but I'm HAPPY! Randomling 20: Opposites Attract i am matter---love, antimatter never to meet save to explode i am space, love is time parallel dimensions never to meet Randomling 21: Puppy Love I ride a leaky newspaper raft Adrift on the linoleum Anxiously awaiting an An attack of smelly squirming happiness covered in fuzz: Puppy love. Randomling 22: Newton's Poultice Apple falls from tree Newton (ouch!) takes notice Comes up with law of gravity while wearing a poultice on the solstice Randomling 23: Ticking And the clock on the wall kept on ticking while my life fell apart all around me. Sweet memories faded to shadow as my heart fell to pieces inside me. And the clock on the wall kept on ticking Relentlessly ticking, ticking While my life fell apart all around me. Randomling 24: Untitled eternity a mosaic assembled from shimmering, glimmering tiles of delight and black-glazed stones of despair interlocking snowflakes in seamless beauty Randomling 25: Seasonal Lament Daylight shrinks end at both end as summer falls into the arm of winter. arm Randomling 26: Untitled I didn't want to love you. Randomling 27: Pills Depression is days and nights curled fetal-like in a dark room, no interest in the world outside, idly wondering if there are enough pills in the bottle to kill you, then thinking it's not worth the effort to find out because you're dead inside already. Randomling 28: Guilt By Association Fresh morning light frames the cat, surrounded by piles of dirt and deceased plants, looking innocent. Randomling 29: Bell the Cat How do you give a cat a bath? Maybe you can do the math. All I know is she stinks to heaven, And of us, there are only seven. How many humans to bathe a cat? Definitely more than where we're at! Randomling 30: Muse I want to write a poem using the word gossamer. “Gossamer.” Randomling 31: Ripples Canoes rock gently under the waxing moon. Black water ripples, painting a beautiful scene under the scented pines. Randomling 32: Sunshine Waterfall I cleanse my face in a sunshine waterfall, luxuriate in a sunshine shower. Waterfall flow and warm me; sprinkle lemon drops through my hair. Randomling 33: Salon Treatment Hurricanes scour everything they touch, then rinse and blow dry. Randomling 34: My Window Blue sky pokes its face through the canopy of trees. Heat wave is over! Randomling 35: Coeur d'Alene Coeur d'Alene, Heart of the Awl, gem of the north, you tamed my hatred of this desert state and gave me sunlight sparkling on blue lakes under scented pines.
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