Best Inopportune Poems

a collaborative work with Alfred Vassalo


The Stars sparkled in her eyes
As light interlaced with her shadow
Causing her to question her senses
Even though she closed her...

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When the author of forever sang 
his serenade,
‘twas longing in a virgin’s heart,
the strings he played.
So liltingly and stirringly 
did words cascade,
they conjured scent of...

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i tried to notice without noticing.
i tried to fit in by not standing out,
but i knew i was different.
their walls much bigger.
their yards much nicer.

in...

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Squeaky and his buddies resided somewhere deep within the church's organ.
That elusive rodent was the bane of the pastor, The Reverend Doctor Morgan!
The reverend almost...

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Jealousy is crimson
Envy is green
They can make you vindictive
They can make you real mean!

They raise up their heads
So ugly and cruel
At inopportune moments
They can make...

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         "Socks"
	(Extra, Missing, or Clinton's Cat)
	Written: by Tom Wright
	3/12/99
	
	Where do socks go when they disappear
	Is my question...

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The world in our hands would impair devils
An unthinking thought more blissful
Than a wish fulfilling shooting star

Our missions would be charted out
To go on our...

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the Medicare, an undeserved fund the patients spend,
which seems extremely excrescent,
must be crushed immediately without any mend. 
No coverage serves them right! Be they gravely...

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P.T.S.D.

Pain is a close companion,
Obsessive compulsion an annoying friend,
Self-loathing is an acquaintance,
Trust issues never end.

Terror always lingers,
Revulsion follows close behind,
Anxiety is a regular guest,
Unfortunate thoughts...

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“Good Morning Mr Wolf”



What an inopportune time
to fall in love 
with a 
new conceptual dream
of wrapping my body 
up in blue skies

viral love robotic 
you're...

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I hear that you have been a bit under the weather, not feeling as well as you’d like.

No doubt, your illness took the most inopportune...

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Distant notes adrift of a lone melancholic mandolin 
Astride a gentle breeze covetous caress to my skin
Seductive and voluptuous a most impassioned plea
Bursts a sunset...

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that fish patiently wait 
at interface of water and fate
burping bubbles for their troubles
water bugs and mosquitoes
unwilling, unsettling for nibbling placebos
acting on a deeper, more...

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We met in June, on a fine afternoon
Our hearts did swoon,under the full moon 
You said we'd meet soon, my heart was in tune
We were...

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A short dissertation on a natural phenomenon
That takes place many times every day
Sometimes at the most inopportune moments
Like in a theatre at a Shakespearian play

If...

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