Chucked Poems

an abused child

...she was chucked aside
abandoned and forsaken
learning lifes lesson

discarded and dumped
throwm away and deserted
an abused child...

I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025

...I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025...
the first time this summer,
when martyrdom got chucked aside for cold comfort.

How heavenly the climate controlled apartment
unit...

Never Give Up - Poor Man’s Steak

...Together, my parents faced two world wars, the great depression, floods, fires, and some things that would bring most people to their knees. Imagine just where I would be if they had just decided tha...

Old Ugly Wicked Queen

...There was once a Queen 
Who sat on her throne
Behind closed doors 
Giving orders, abusing and casting spells
The staff rebelled and chucked her in hell
Where she remains still spitting poison.
...

Arthur

...Crows come
And crows go
But Arthur always was.

For years the lofty oak had been
His look-out every day
And soon as Mother chucked the scraps
His shiny eyes
Would spot the crumbs
From eighty...

A Foolish Man

...
Every morning the town drunk would walk past the general store where all the farmers gathered to have their coffee. Day after day, the same farmers complained about the weather, the high price of f...

Sunday Thinking Cap

...I wore my thoughts on my head like a ball cap today

Ready to take off and disregard

or to turn around, tilted in the opposite direction

Easy to grab at, to throw away, to steal,

to sneaki...

The Other Red Sock

...Hop - two, three, four.
Socks - two, three, four.

Wait a minute! Where
Is Red One's partner?

Not over here. 
Not over there.
Not behind the pillow 
Or under the chair!

Red Two must be p...

No Instruction Codes

...2/23/24

It's not in all the books we read
Souls put to sea
Continual butchery
They carry on crookedly
Trying to coat the truth with something sugary
Some know and don't care others never coul...

Love is like bubblegum

...
Love is like bubblegum fresh at the start
Zesty and fruity, like adrenaline to the heart
Mouthwatering anticipation of bubbles to come
Time spent together it's outstanding fun
Next comes the bu...

A Matter Of Faith

...

When I was a child, I wondered

Was deep sleep, death?

Was every morning a new life, a new incarnation?

Waking up, I found the people around me were the same

I was the same too, not...

Revenge Kisses and Afternoon Shams

...Have I failed you as a man?
Our only communication was what washed up on shore 
But there's so much space between the ocean floor and the sand 
One cascades and the other crystalizes 
But you can...

Vacuum or Vampire? Either way, you Still Suck

...A Hallmark card would have sounded sweeter than that 
My shiny badge of defusion and falsely sworn merit 
I’m the worst this town’s ever seen!
But I want justice for this
I keep retriggering your...

Demotion

...He drew the drapes, nothing caught his eye
it seemed that yesterday had replicated itself,
only today it had chosen a deeper of gray tint.

On balance, it could have been
the color of stale puke...

January 13th, 2023

...January 13th, 2023

After wishing upon a star
to garner a handsome windfall
as a positive fated birthday gift
lo and behold, these ears didn't deceive me,
cuz I discerned a partial telephone me...

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