Remedies
...Written By: D. Collins
When your head is banging like a deep, bass drum.
Mince a garlic clove and butter on a hot dog bun.
Any strain that wants to call itself athlete foot.
Will bow down to...
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Categories:
clorox, baseball,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Virus
...Began so promising
As thoughts of a new year approached
Some called it a year of new beginnings and clarity
That 20/20 vision of sorts
Unknown and foreign
You found your origins in a faraway l...
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Categories:
clorox, confusion, fear, sick,
Form: Free verse
It's My Body
...It's my body, and I'll cry if I want to!
Lie if I want to!
Die if I want to!
You might die too if I come near you.
No vaccine pricks my skin.
Absolute is my right
to randomly infect another...
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Categories:
clorox, body, health, humor, hyperbole,
Form: Other
My Desk
...Kleenexes
Clorox wipes
A roll of tape
Kitty cat eyes on a pink pencil box
red apple peeks out behind yellow thermos
hand sanitizer
unused pencil sharpener because I forgot I had one
three fold...
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Categories:
clorox, work,
Form: List
From My Desk I See
...without moving anything but my eyes I see
a mouse pad, computer, power cord, phone
fork, knife, spoon, half eaten chunk of meatloaf
stapler, scissors, Clorox wipes
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kend...
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Categories:
clorox, work,
Form: List
Wipe Away 2020
...Christmas Gift Basket
Wipe away and sanitize
With Clorox bleach pads
Give you butt a treat
With a roll of golden TP
May your Christmas wishes
Come true with a Masks-less
New Year, taking t...
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Categories:
clorox, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Better Off
...Was Samoa better off without
The missionaries coming to save us
Oh enslave us to leave our roots
To submit to their god
Because we were savages
That ate humans
But didn'...
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Categories:
clorox, culture, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Spouse Took Hiatus Washing Clothes and Dishes
...(alternately titled: tongue in cheek humor
cuz the following hyperbole
from this pencil necked baby boomer
without intent to badmouth,
nor start unfounded rumor,
who chalks, i.e. attributes gobb...
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Categories:
clorox, 12th grade, adventure, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Donald Trump: the Clorox Couplets
...Not-So-Heroic Couplets
by Donald Trump
care of Michael R. Burch
To outfox the pox:
kill yourself first, with Clorox!
And since death is the goal,
mainline Lysol!
No vaccine?
Just ch...
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Categories:
clorox, america, giggle, humor, humorous,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Wash Your Hands
...Wuhan flu of twenty twenty was it a biochemical warfare attack
was it because someone in China was hungry for a raw bat
Without warning the world, China let it spread far and wide
was China silent...
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Categories:
clorox, poems, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Burnt Tears
...Diane Perna
BURNT TEARS
I remember a tormented childhood with
Dad’s words laced with poison and Mom
tossed acid on my tears by saying no words
to stop it and even joined it.
I remember t...
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Categories:
clorox, angst, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
If You See Pledge You Had Better Run
...Scrubbing Bubbles, Dreft, Life Buoy, and Shout.
Help me to get my greasy grimy out.
Irish Spring, Dove, Windex, Borax too,
I turn to them when I am blue.
Cleaning is something I resolve not to ...
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Categories:
clorox, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Homegrown Aromas-F
...For years, those homegrown scents have been stuck in my head. It's mother's home-grown and freshly cook...
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Categories:
clorox, childhood, food, mother, senses,
Form: Quintain (English)
A Modern Love Story
...In scratchy swales emitting Clorox gas,
Matador houseflies cross paralyzed eyes;
A kaleidoscope scene where jagged glass
Cracks beneath footsteps of love’s promised lies;
Forgotten by choice th...
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Categories:
clorox, loneliness, lost,
Form: Sonnet
The Most Dangerous Roads
...THE MOST DANGEROUS ROADS
i've got the head of a rattle snake
on the front end of my hood
i've got a chilled clorox drink
in my steel-knuckled hand
and we're rolling down I-10
across the stre...
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Categories:
clorox, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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