By 12
...By 12
By 12 I was
fully grown. My height was
the envy of
the short arses in
my classes. I wasn’t a
porker like
some ... I was
spared fat jokes. My level of
pituitary activity was, w...
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Categories:
clapped out, humor,
Form: Free verse
The Town
...I can remember passing through
this town as a child,
stopping for a pie
on our way north.
Now it’s bypassed – barely more
than a clot lodged
in the spidery veins of a map.
Most of the houses ...
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Categories:
clapped out, history, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Who Which Why
...Who decided I would live this life petite?
Who wanted me to act female sweet?
Who decided to kill animals for meat?
What would my grandpa think of a tweet?
Who figured out how to grind up wheat...
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Categories:
clapped out, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Keys For the Newish Year
...Kitchen catastrophes,
kitty got into the closet
the cat has a key
cold cuts today
no time to cross the equator
in a clapped-out cart.
New Year beer
hob-knobbing with the cousins
from down und...
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Categories:
clapped out, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Strange Ways, Here We Come
...
“Strange Ways, Here We Come”
the devil’s advocate
came waltzing
through my doors
“I had no choice”
the supercilious harbinger said,
“to intervene, to parlay awa...
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Categories:
clapped out, dark, death, grief, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Change of Frequency
...Can’t you hear the silent trickle rusting
on the bell of liberation
shouting into the wind of nascent freedom
Its trick or treat frosted
or icing on the caked in disguise
It sounds action o...
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Categories:
clapped out, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Jungle Love
...I keep my left foot in the war zone
I keep my right foot in the jungle,
While I scramble for my cheerios[ 0's }
I do it bundle by bundle,
It's the year of gettin' yo' money right
and my pocket...
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Categories:
clapped out, environment, hip hop,
Form: Rhyme
Paint My Love
...Blank board we together saw
The board as colourless as a drop of rain
Weightless but with embodiment of hope
We yearned for colour and brush but didn’t see
Seeing the potential in the blank board...
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Categories:
clapped out, art, loveblue, love,
Form: I do not know?
Taken Its Toll
...I don’t have a bell to ring
Someone’s taken my dingaling
I don’t know what’s wrong
Someone has taken my dong
I don’t know why the bloody hell
I can’t seem to ring my bell
I know the batte...
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Categories:
clapped out, funny
Form: I do not know?