Best Aping Poems

Unquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind

(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging...

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WHEN LETTERS DANCE ON  THE PAGE

  
 
“Disappear,” I said.
They denied.

Didn’t  the Casanova at the theatre
Return  my ravishing smile last night?
The...

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like the animals
in a zoo,
we roam freely
within our allowed 
spaces---caged
and confined, yet
our cages are invisible---
we, like the unbarred 
elephant,
no longer chained---
oblivious to his power---
will not...

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There, resting in stoic frame, it
reflected its sheen surface; glowing 
like a stilled black water river—The stage
mocking banks at high tide.

Ebony rowed keloids rose in-between
marshmallow...

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T  HERE
E  VERYWHERE
R  APING FREEDOM
R  UINING THE LIVES OF
O  F
R  EALLY 
I   NNOCENT PEOPLE
S  AVAGELY
T ...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXVI

IF ever I had a Country with or without any " Wood " in the aching aping Film...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXXI

IF you pull a long lagging-behind face
You deserve your copycat status in more than one way
Marco Polo...

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I didn’t miss the snub
Your fancy social club
Will just not be requesting my application.
But joy, as it turns out, 
There is no shred of doubt
That...

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If I and my poems were dissed
by those deemed elite--just dismissed,
I’d be so mature.
Their barbs I’d endure—
unless I should get REALLY p_ _ _ _...

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ANOTHER DAY OF FLEEING LIFE

Jaundiced eyes peered
from skeletal sockets
reflecting the daily fear:

Not of inevitable death;
but the agony of life another day.

The permanent stoop
of the frail...

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Tell me how does one fathom why poor fail to vote their own interests so much of the time?
That they somehow look up to those...

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My remaining days, 
Merely a shadow of those expended.

It’s as if I’ve floated through time,
Aping smoke, born of a match head,

Drifting Indiscriminately,
Chasing dreams, oft dwarfed...

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The whole while I wrote my letter naked
With my blood I cut each word deep
And made I but one step from my desk
dropped it subway
Like...

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Big Rabbit Sonnet 
 Giant rabbits are not cute as you think when they 
are in a group then they sneer at us and make...

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Quit aping around                      ...

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