Alligator Poems

Fern octopus
Swimming in the ocean seas
Sturgeon nectar
Seaweed flower hot pink
Cream of the crop
Prada manufactured alligator purse

1/22/20
James Edward Lee Sr  2020...Read More

A beautiful Wintu girl reached puberty. Her sisters were sent to find 
maple bark to make her an apron. 

It so happened that Turtle, the mischievous son of the mighty ‘Sky 
Turtle’ stopped at the village on his way to...Read More

He keeps trying his barrage 
of raging vitriol, but it's a blunt knife
on his target's alligator skin

A predictable high school bully
with the same ol' lines of attack.
His target always sees them coming...

and the invectives inflict no pain!

The bully sharpens the...Read More

Andy!

          -Aaron!
          -Aloha!

Aloha!
All
A-ok?

           -Absolutely

Amy?

        ...Read More

Leatherback, murray river, matama
Hawksbill, common musk and spiny soft shell.
Loggerhead, Atlantic green, alligator snapping
Turtles are we, in every country we dwell.

The largest sea turtle reaches eight hundred pounds.
A leatherback whose love for jellyfish abounds.
Alligator snapping is one fourth of leatherback’s...Read More

A tale emerges between bar nuts.
His brother eaten
in his own swimming pool.

“Alligators are stupid,” he says,
“they’re vacant
like a tiger with a lobotomy.
You don't see alligator heads on walls,
do you?
There's no way to mount
that dumb fricking grin.”

Neither of us laugh.

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A deep pit, a crumbling edge,
at the bottom, a pool swarming with sauropods.
There is someone, a boy.
I shouldn't have taken the child here.
I'm slipping, taking him with me;
he won't let go of my hand.
We are sliding on the scree.
A gun...Read More

my breathing quickens
waking me with a start
I bump into a long fat slimy thing 
a tongue?

I reach around and discover it is much larger
in daylight, scary.
in the dark, shocking.
bumpy, and unbelievably cold and rugged

what are you doing up here? I...Read More

The alligator may not be wise but is no dummy,
he knows other animals were made to fill its tummy.
And many an unwary animal, less than alert
has acknowledged this truth as a belated burp.
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“Never give an inch boy,”
a drunken uncle once told me.

It sounded like a spell
to ward off vicious dogs, rabid priests;
any jackass or villain with crooked eyes.

Superman is a plastic 3-inch-high figure,
a talisman I keep in my jeans pocket.

Make an incision...Read More

yah, I took the red pill
and the Matrix came apart 
like a cheap suit in a car wash
while the distance between bad to good 
became a weaving graph line
down the two lane blacktop
as traffic in either direction 
meant nothing other
than...Read More

Conversation with a Five Year Old
Would you like some alligator soup?
I don’t know. What does it taste like?
Alligator
Well, sure I guess I will have some.
Great! All you have to do is catch the alligator.
Isn’t that the cook’s job?
And you get...Read More

 Alligator beach
enchanted sun softens with
 Ravel bolero
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I like money
it's the enabler alligator
the alligator bites
anyone who doesn't feed it

I trust money
it says "In God We Trust"
getting a camel through the eye
of needle must be easy

I am money and I talk
I am time and the river
the sun and...Read More

 Having to realize my journey
Through life, i face unusual situations...
This time with animals.

In the pond the alligator opens its huge mouth
and orders me: swim ...!
In the field the sibylline snake , hisses :
walk...!
In the cold white snow
the scary wolf...Read More

a face with a smile
laughter endears it to you...
tears spill from your eyes.

children playing games
sounds of happiness abound...
the crack of a gun

a place of learning
instructed by skilled teachers...
in a state of shock.

panic starts to run
some will never walk again...
roses mark...Read More

The reality be told, it was not long past
Flabbergast by an unfold from my minds vague vast
In the reflections of the accounts of my youth 
As several echo’s formed claiming to be truth
Must be fabricated. They’re so over the top...Read More

Another sound byte,
the latest alligator lip lie
Patent leather fake promises
being fed to graven idol sick fools
thru an intravenous video tube

And they willingly give Kevorkian consent
to vote for their own suicidal self-interest
Such an anti-global citizen attitude
is lemming leading tools
to the ledge...Read More

we've a crazy
bull frog in our
pond for when

you come upon
our pond to take
a peek or a look

see he doesn't 
startedly leep

he
ever
so slowly
sinks like an
alligator in his pond...Read More

Wiseguys

when I was a skinny
eight-year-old boy
I knew him as
Willy Shoes

it was Brooklyn 
in 1950 and
some men had
strange names 
reflections of personality
deed or look

he and his friends
never seemed to have jobs
but gathered on corners 
played cards in social clubs 
always friendly...Read More

Two mighty alligators follow me from the bowels of the swamp
Talking in low voices, but I have dog ears so I catch on.
They are diving me up.
One wants my thighs.
The other is talking about my juicy breasts
Leaving me in no...Read More

Here lies what's left of Melvin Slater,
who tried to ride an alligator.

written 11th April for Jesse's epitaph contest...Read More

Your mental are cold
But others are bold
Their mind is like gold
But you are so old
So, fold a tissue
And hold it tight  
Or you will fall on the ground
Bang!
Crash like a big bang
How do you feel
Its like you twist your...Read More

He pulled up to the Triple "T" Ranch in a shiny Cadillac.
In his trailer was an Arabian steed with the finest tack.
He wore Tony Lama alligator boots and Calvin Klein jeans,
And a stylish Stetson hat - he looked like a...Read More

Do you want to join the circus? Yes, my crazy Uncle Jerry  said.
So he was put to work, good thing he skipped school that day, huh?
The next day he was joined by his best neighborhood pals - Tom, Dick...Read More