Best Dispensers Poems

No one in particular (in the wake of our dreams)

We don’t look like they do,
graphic replicas of a life in tatters,
drifting on lonesome clouds
Dove’s wing...

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Our public toilets have been locked
to stop people from stealing
The depths that some folk stoop to
is really quite revealing

They stole the toilet paper
from dispensers on...

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Not-So-Heroic Couplets
by Donald Trump
care of Michael R. Burch 

To outfox the pox: 
kill yourself first, with Clorox!

And since death is the goal, 
mainline Lysol! 

No...

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“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, 
but I have promises to keep, 
and miles to go before I sleep” (Robert Frost).

The woods know my...

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“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, 
but I have promises to keep, 
and miles to go before I sleep” (Robert Frost).

The woods know my...

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I am not your daughter
I will wear pink and red together
Just because they don’t match
I will dye my hair black
Not only just because you said...

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Baseball cards and hula hoops
  Baloney sandwich, Campbell’s soup

Howdy Doody and Mickey Mouse
  Mamie and Ike in the White House

American Bandstand, Rock 'n...

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I’m a young woman living the American dream
working in a fast food restaurant 
this is not what I dreamed of but 
I got to be...

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I attended a meeting with, supposedly a friend, and was introduced to
Despised, Dehumanized, Decreased, Diminished, Disregarded, and Devalued,       ...

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Who dares to be so presumptuous as to declare Nature's 
wonders……flowers, trees, birds and bees……unimportant

A tree reaches forth to receive the sunlight
It's branches are welcoming...

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hours of summer fun
bobbing heads
to pez dispensers



posted on June 21, 2018...

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Epigrams VI

These are humorous epigrams including a form I call "Less Heroic Couplets." 



Less Heroic Couplets: Mini-Ode to Stamina
by Michael R. Burch
 
When you’ve given...

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Her optimism solid in her roots of red white and blue
Gallant knight was coming in princely form any time now
A waitress in every small town...

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Some guys sprinkle when they have a tinkle
and spurt wee wee all over the floor
Then they leave the lavatory seat up
these two actions I simply...

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This is one excited kid and one PROUD father...



I took my son to the lumberyard last Tuesday afternoon. The day itself, though toasty, was the...

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