Best Balsam Poems

There once was a little balsam
     who was growing green and free,
And he hoped that he'd be taken
          to be used as a Christmas tree.

He'd spent all of his early years
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(DEDICATED TO MARTIN BALSAM WHO DIED FEBRUARY 13, 1996.)

You starred in Psycho as Mister Arbogast.
You were a great actor in the past.
You starred in Archie Bunker's place with Carroll O'Connor.
When other actors worked with you, it was indeed an honor.
When you died, it was something...

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My climbing rope is broken
better fix it
said the  excitable culprit

A praying mantis was in my sandwich
it provided a challenge
crunch crunch went my dentures

Please don't force the hyacinths
let them blossom in their own time
Please don't be too eager again

If your fingers grow stiff
ply them with...

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She hears again his guttural sob
as he orgasms behind her.

Between his muscles and her anima -
butter and balsam.
She spreads herself,
makes herself parts to be used.

Afterward,
his hurried dressing,
his indifferent coldness.

Then, as usual, he leaves her
for that bony 
with halitosis.

One cigarette after another;
she draws the smoke into...

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