Best Checkbooks Poems

I live in a family
who can't keep an umbrella
a flashlight
flour
superglue
post its
ink cartridges
ice cubes
ice cream cones

who can't find
checkbooks
gift cards
phone cords
appt reminders

who never has
extra cash
maps
penny rolls 
the...

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           Your past, your romantic past, is a shadow. Like all towns, Port Angeles was a combination of rain and clouds, sun and mist, with a...

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You hate your job,
but you're good at what you do

A paid shadow
who follows the trail of indiscretions
that other people lead you to

You're a gumshoe,
sticking to...

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MY THREE GRACES
Agalia
arizona goddess blossom of society's elite 
living your mother's dreams and wishes.
scottsdale pretty boys .

Thalia
vail heiress your wealth cultivated 
from beans and canned...

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Tax time again, again, again
Anxious crunching of the days
Xenogenous shaking of the brain
Empty checkbooks, delays
Severing theory from truth.

Income diminished by rising cost
Severe dislocation of expectations

Undistributed...

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MY THREE GRACES
Agalia
arizona goddess blossom of society's elite 
living your mother's dreams and wishes.
scottsdale pretty boys .

Thalia
vail heiress your wealth cultivated 
from beans and canned...

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Welcome to the pickpocket’s ball,
Where thousands come to see the ball fall.
Packed in Times Square to welcome a new year in;
On the faces of petty...

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Do you remember the grapevine? Do you?
Do you remember the deer that stole from it?
Do you remember the stream that fed it?
Do you remember the...

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When young Jack for a handful of beans swapped their cow,
It upset his poor mother who said with a scowl,
"What possessed you to make such...

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a speck of sand,
precise as a snowflake,
that's me,
a particle that drifts between flesh and spirit,
grasping to feel,
longing to heal,
meeting that brick wall again,
and again,
after a...

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we baking cookies
cooking meals for the week
the shoppings done
while you grill I'll do the checkbooks
who fed the dogs
who left the milk out
Sundays a blur of...

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we baking cookies
cooking meals for the week
the shoppings done
while you grill I'll do the checkbooks
who fed the dogs
who left the milk out
Sundays a blur of...

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