Best Ham Sandwich Poems

----Ad for a Siren----

job hunting siren
swims from cove to cove--
shark bosses need not apply


**Sept.16, 2010
Siren, send my check in the mail ;)


----Ad for a Siren...

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I am the Latch-Key Kid
When I go home, no tea on the table
I manage to make myself something to eat
The best that I am able

Mum...

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In the fall of 1803,
The good ship, “The Queen Ann’s Knees”
Sailed out on the bounding seas.
Out of sight of the land
The captain looked grand
As with...

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Rock Stars who died at age 27 and the eerie coincidence that gave rise to some 
 
Jimi Hendrix-Played electric guitar with his teeth and...

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40 Brown bags
Containing
Bottled water
Fruit juice 
Granola bar
 Bag of crackers
 Bag of pretzels
1 Baloney, Turkey or Ham sandwich.
Sunday after Thanksgiving
18 year old son decides
To feed...

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I’m not saying it’s windy in Kansas but….
I saw a bald eagle get pushed by on his gut.
My house has landed upside down in an...

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I had gone to this spot to pray
on a mid-afternoon street in the city
so busy the cars rarely make time to drive
as they sit for...

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Bachelor Day 
It was father’s day he got up early and 
drink coffee near the phone just in case
his daughter rang.

Then it was afternoon and...

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Hey Toadus!
Make
A ham sandwich
Such that I
May consume it
At my leisure…

Hey Toadus!
That
Ham sandwich
Is very good
Might I 
Have another?

Yes Sir
I will be quite glad
To make
As many
Ham sandwiches
As...

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Some people find comfort in living the same day 
Every day doing what they did yesterday in the same way. 
I know a man who...

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Lungs that exhale lofty tones,
higher learning ... Mt. Olympus invocation
Elevated flung lightning bolts of linguistic illusion,
fancy worded dreams
floating ...
between 
open cranial empty spaces

Diaphragm skywalkers
verbally illuminating...

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Decisions, Decisions.
Every single decision
Completely affecting another.
To stay at home,
Or run around town.
To call it a day,
Or stay up until six.

One decision, many directions.
Many paths created,...

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I am on the railroad platform in Chicago waiting for my honey, my man.
He had run back to purchase me a sandwich with warm honey...

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'A Tale of Two Weeps'
       ~ 'Limerick-Style'* ~ 
 
Sarah Palin met Kamala Harris in a bar, said
I'm kinda...

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They were stopping everyone;
made us answer their questionnaires.
We were told that there were 
no right or wrong answers,
but weeks later - a letter.

Apparently the socially...

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