Best Two Times Poems

My mommy, this sweet old soul, told me this way back when
Chew your food thirty-two times, to help with digestion
Don't know if it's true
How's about you
Thought it baloney, till my bowels threatened insurrection...

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flares of demise burn once, twice, thrice
she seals her eyes, hiding behind
those ideals and the lies that sensationalize 
a life less known,
so delicately disguised.

careening unarmed though such masquerades
whirl. whirl. whirl.
twirl-wind
third time's a charm
underpaid and so afraid
inertia strikes, and then
they surmise with their rhetorical advice
silly, weak,...

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Sunday's my fun day
      Late to work Monday

    Tuesday's a food day
      Pay the price Wednesday

    Thursday's for shopping
      On Friday, no stopping

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Two times today
With the phone in my hand
I almost called you…

I miss the sound of your tender voice
As it echoes across the miles
The way our voices seem to change
As “hellos” turn into smiles

When awkward silences fill the air
And small talk tends to leave
‘Tis my heart...

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Two times six is ten?
This is an angry adult voice.
I do not recognize it.
The third grade class is silent.
Most of their eyes are popped open.
I smell fear as I enter the room.
It is the teacher, and she is angry.
Using a voice I have never heard.
“TWO...

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I could tell by the looks in their eyes,
They had evil on their mind;
Terrorists with more devilish thoughts,
Nowhere else on earth could you find.

Victims of their thoughtless deeds
Lay scattered in their paths;
Cries if mercy on their ears
Are answered with just a laugh.

Destruction;
Torture;
Hazardous waste;
Are tools of...

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Wow! 100 days!
Thunderstorms of injustice;
Human rights are drowned:-
 

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Sometimes,
you have to leave to come back

Sometimes,
the line needs to go slack

Sometimes,
the loss is more to be gained

Sometimes,
the past—twice rearranged

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)...

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~ (~) Time bold presses on... . (~) ~


~ (~) Bartering two times one time three times more; four times a sailor,

given this I've given nothing, just about taken everything hope lost crying-dying perfection 
where is it, except dwelling transfixed, what is it that I...

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You and me just once 
breakups are hard to handle 
two times will be rough...

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