Tree Cousin Poems

I came sneaking around to see what I could see,                  I saw you long before you saw...

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I see them most days now in the street,
Neanderthal look-a-likes,
Who only grunt when I give them a hearty good day,
Bent double over their phone,
Gripping it...

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Riding tricycles and swimming.
Bicycling madly on Chicago streets.
Ah, dear Lord, life was deliciously sweet!

Christmas time glowed in Elmwood Park.
That huge white flocked tree.
We all are...

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The worst part of being put in the pokey
Is being labelled for the rest of your life
It’s a lot harder to be carefree and joke-y,
And...

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Samantha is as delightful as an ingrown toenail.
As wonderful as a virus, hearty and hale.
She was a corn on the bottom of my foot.
Her caustic...

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don’t sit under the mango tree - poison fruit


7/29/2020...

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June 10, 2020

Do you have a garden that you really love?
One that you don’t mind digging in?
You don’t even mind if the Ladybugs eat it
That...

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There’s a coffee tree in your backyard?  In Kansas?
In the back of your house, the marsh?
A Brazilian coffee tree cannot survive here.
Your dhram winters...

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I wonder if THC
and our Holy Cooperative Spirit
could be cousins
like Grandmother Moon
and Grandmother Tree.

Why do you want to wonder 
about something as curious as that,
dear?

Oh,...

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I can get through the doorway without any key,
and strip the leaves from the great ook tree.

I can drive storm clouds and shake tall towers,
Or...

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If it were not for a song
Midnight train to Georgia
Little child runnin' wild
Fellows mellow hanging 
Holler holler!

Ketchup sandwiches
Home alone  
Aah Dem days 
Mommy's home!
Pity...

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People think they see Bigfoot roaming
around in the vast wilderness of the forest,
when it's really my 66 year old left over
from Woodstock very hairy hippie...

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My Cousin Chaos Contest
Sponsor: Brian Davey


Disorderly conduct in the worst degree,
Ella stood up on that ol’ cherry tree,
Lil’ Joey screaming for her to come down,
But...

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When we learned our elderly, kind granddad had died,
All paternal cousins traveled, gathered and cried.
Later, the ‘reception drive’ offered varied rides;
In Rachel’s auto, they shared...

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Now theres a lot of Joeys
in my family tree,
but the one I used to
hang out with was
around the very same
age as me,
I enjoyed his company
immensely...

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