Best Manual Poems

Dignity of Manual Labor
by Lori Maria Walton

These, my manual extensions
   designed for dexterity
  give, to you, my treasure

These, you take from me
   denigrating my identity,
No acknowledgement of difference
  only indifference and emptiness

Extend the strand you hold,
  with my...

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Here, I wrote a bridal guide,
A rule book for future brides,
No matter if you're fair, fat and wide,
 Or not, here's some dependable asides,
First, keep degrees and jobs up to date, 
With some mates you can't relate,
You never know when the rats will turn,
To being...

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This is meant to be a manual, a set of sober instruction
that you can use, once you get past this lengthy introduction,
as a “how to” for learning to feel what it feels like when you fly,
and to free your earthbound body so you can scamper...

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The Following Instructions and Detailed Manuals are Available On Planet Earth

Just add Humans.. and mix it up a bit.

Include

Religions
Famines
Climate Change

Pollution
Pandemics
and Excesses

Politics
and World Wars
Abuse the Nature
And some more

Flora and Fauna
Kill them off
Then you should come out on top

Think of yourself and not others
Especially any mothers

Don't worry...

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Prospective employers can be difficult to convince.
Especially if they only seek applicants with experience.
A gas station proprietor looks like a horse’s ass
when he seeks experienced persons to pump gas.
To make corned beef sandwiches, one needs two years experience?
There is an employer that doesn’t seem to...

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Make one's self scarce when that cage
suddenly appears and before they
splash that sticky mess that to our
fur adheres..
Learn how to get attention when no
one seems to listen by increasing the
volume and stay persistent..
When offered unsavory courses
just let them sit and spoil,
until they make better choices...

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Why toy with love;
When it's true course is rough.

Smoothness isn't it's path.
The latter only in-cures pure wrath.

This manual is what is due.
For the heart will only bleed in a moon that is blue.

Your life should be outstanding.
And tirelessly never leave anyone standing.

What is vocally passed
Is...

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Take me up to where it's hard to breath.
Just suffocate me.
Illuminated in light so cold by a face so bold.
Drift up,
Drift out.
Sink slowly down away.
Wrapped in clothes of blood stains alone and cold to cry.
This space around squeezed.
I've died.

Further away from you I've been.
Now so...

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Ms. Stormy Daniels
Penned a sex manual
  In it you may just bump
  Into Mr. Donald J. Trump...

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I rolled like Caesar down the boulevard the day I came to town.
My triumph was impromptu and abrupt.
I parked my Chevy by the curbside on a gentle downhill slope
In hope there’d be no need for backing up.

From near the Devil’s Crossroads where I’d tempted fate
To...

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Give a child life at birth
Make it a C section or natural
Feed them warm mammary milk
Give them two parents when possible
Cloth them in cotton and wool
Give them a bath because children stink
Teach them to think and about soap and water
Take them to the doctors when...

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Time is a coverlet 
of secrets not to be withheld, 
but dressed for the revealing, 
just as humankind sits down
among the gods partaking
of the succulence of truth,
and no priority may interfere
with that vainglory of the feast.

See, it has begun
with whispers in the air,
alerting us that...

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young daughter
giving mom pedicure
~  garden can wait



posted on June 11, 2018...

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How do you view yourself?
Steady gaze that drags you into the puddle.
The rains have unleashed what remains underneath the facade of metropolitan dazzle. 
Puddles black as the pupils that gaze into the sewers,
Bodies descend into the horrors
Ammonia and methane, lungs that burn and smoke that...

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I don't need to do
anything much
today.

Ate my breakfast
took my pills
and showered.

The bins go out
Tomorrow.
I don't have 
A cat.

The TV's pre-set to record;
I watch it anyway,
(A president to come
Or will he go?)

A mass of people swelter
In a too hot sun
Or huddle bleakly in the snow.
The riots...

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