Behind the times of los Angeles California
It doets
In file
Creating improv
Of government structure code
Deep in the winde to pause
The slouch is may, or you without silence
The eavesdropping behind the times
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Categories:
angeles, art,
Form: Bio
Tomb
Never had I met you
Still I know your name,
Because of the notoriety
Because of the fame
Written in stone
Forever and a day,
Many gone too soon
Seems to happen that way
Halls of Hollywood memories
Echo down the tomb ...
In a place of reverie
Not a place of gloom
Legends of the silver screen
Lives of cinema and
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Categories:
angeles, celebrity, death, grave, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
angeles, city, dark, light, moon,
Form: Haiku
Baxter Street Monday
Anti-Poem — “Baxter Street Monday”
me trudging walking
gripping onward forward
traipsing baxter street monday
and its steep inclines
going up like a dizzy sparrow
passing vertical merry go rounds
the sly moulin rouge turnabouts
that sip spit with maraschino endives
scanning thighs ripe with hard-ons
the stoner pink boys
lost in rainbow cul-de-sacs
lost amidst the traffic tirades
the propelling grind
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Categories:
angeles, life, memory,
Form: Free verse
Going To See Honey Sanchez
Anti-Poem— “Going To See Honey Sanchez”
gloria and me we take a yellow taxi from canoga park
we go to see honey sanchez at the olympic on grand
she be the dragon lady on skates she and terri lynch
both of them girls be tough as nails in their ripe beauty
both wearing thunderbird white riding fire and blood
lighting
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Categories:
angeles, memory,
Form: Free verse
Touch Foot Ball
On Saturday, the L A Rams
Encountered the Monterey Clams
With no and, if, or but
It was open and shut
The Sopranos limped home like lambs!
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Categories:
angeles, football, humor,
Form: Limerick
Just Call Angeles 911
Oh! Who are you going to call;
whenever you're in serious trouble?
Our troubled friends when you need help?
(Just call upon the heavenly angels 911!)
Oh! Who are you going to call;
whenever you need them around?
If you really need someone to help you?
(Just call, just call angels 911!)
Just call upon the heavenly angels 911!
(Just call, just call
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Categories:
angeles, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Los Angeles Elbow Grease
In this ever-changing world of entertainment any day
An artist could accomplish what he once thought
Was an impossible feat with a little elbow grease
And dedication you may gain a reputation
For being remarkable you'll see
With the right preparation there's no limitations
On who you could become but don't be dumb
With all of the
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Categories:
angeles, dark, evil, passion, spoken
Form: Rhyme
Los Angeles
This is the hub of Angels; by which I call a city
A concrete jungle of building that's never been pretty:
Culture in place for the unappealing disparity at its center
Come! And waver off on years of aimless wandering when you enter
The Angels must’ve failed; their endowments left unfilled
Our authenticity is a euphemism; a place by where
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Categories:
angeles, 8th grade, city,
Form: ABC
Los Angeles
After we met
I thought we really had something,
Really hit it off.
It wasn’t the words we spoke,
The easy fluorescent trail they made.
Maybe it was the Japanese lantern
Glowing over your bare shoulder
Or the smile you threw
To the side-
To someone.
Or maybe it was the cool damp air,
Slight seduction of rain
But no rain.
Perfect, cool molecules,
Layer on layer,
Air sitting
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Categories:
angeles, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Los Angeles, Memorial In Graffiti
Around the corner in an alley
Behind a run-down diner
On a nameless Los Angeles street
Two strangers converge slowly on
The appointed location where
Their mutual connection set a meet
On their first point of contact
An explosive reaction that
Produced something violent and divine
They continued their encounters
Coupling, colliding, entwining, dividing
Nearly every day of aught nine
Like every age of greatness
The trysts
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Categories:
angeles, city, relationship, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Los Angeles, Time Unknown
City across the water, night by violet aurora
Los Angeles, we're further south than I thought (than we should be)
I take a strewn-bark trail to get a better view
Hand me the camera, Polaroids in quick succession (when is this?)
It's not quite capturing it, never the depth of field we need
Daybreak (remembering, there's no bay in LA)
Scores
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Categories:
angeles, city,
Form: Free verse
East of Los Angeles
When an expanse of sands comes into view
you’ll see sparsely dotted weeds lying flat on the ground.
For soil is sterile and weather is harsh the weeds are not only unable
to grow tall but struggle to survive by laying flat on the ground.
Of this wilderness, though no vestige of civilization,
a straight lined thin and lonely
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Categories:
angeles, feelings, home, missing, travel,
Form: Free verse
Los Angeles 1982
Los Angeles 1982
my piece got me out of many a jam
(but I mostly just pointed it)
and the bad guy always said “I didn’t want to do it”,
or “I’m misunderstood”, or that he wasn’t bad at all
and when I showed him my badge and my integrity
and called out “hands up!”,(if he
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Categories:
angeles, allegory, integrity,
Form: Free verse
My Guardian Angeles
My Guardian Angels
4/2013
Tattooed Angels
Enshrine my body,
Protectors of what's right,
forever vigilant
All day and all through the night!
Ganesh, Hindu Elephant God,
Loyal son of Shiva and Parvati
Embodiment of selfless devotion/remover of obstacles
Provider of strength and honesty
The winged Sufi Heart
Coupled with the holiest name, ????
A constant reminder of Who I really Am,
And from whence I came!
Phoenix, symbol
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Categories:
angeles, daughter, father daughter, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
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