Hey, Mr Dylan
...Hey, Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me—
in the jingle-jangle morning, I’ll follow you.
Like my nan, slippers tapping,
buttered toast, kitchen radio.
She’d sway while evening’s empire turned t...
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Categories:
docs, music,
Form: Free verse
I Am
...Except for docs and pills that work,
I’d know not who I am.
Frightening to learn and bravely see
where I really stand.
I live the person God has made,
a creation striving to grow
and deep wit...
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Categories:
docs, appreciation, god, life,
Form: Rhyme
Cacoethes
...I love having—
hating the feeling of wanting.
Wanting cuts my guts as consequentially as diarrhea.
I steal casually,
like second breaths after waking,
or proper newborns latched onto Mama’s ni...
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Categories:
docs, addiction, desire, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Modern Medi Miracle
...(To be sang to the tune of...
"Modern Major General" by Gilbert and Sullivan)
I am the very model of a modern medi miracle.
I've defied all odds against prognosis. It's hysterical!
I've so m...
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Categories:
docs, uplifting,
Form: Lyric
On New Year's Day
...Schools and many stores are closed;
Banks and barbers, too.
If you need to buy some stamps,
There’s nothing you can do.
Docs and dentists do not work;
The Market has no trades
And you may fin...
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Categories:
docs, new years day,
Form: Rhyme
The Nativity
...In the Nativity, Jesus was not given space, room,
For a kingly birth with velvet and silk to concord;
Rejection stood aloof at the inn curbing the bloom,
Holding and seeing the babe fight a harsh ...
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Categories:
docs, christian, christmas, faith, god,
Form: Quatrain
Murdering the CEO
...When the frustrated socialist sees that health care isn't free
He turns into a killer, claims he's saving you and me
He murders a CEO, to make a point, because he could
For the goal of perfection ...
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Categories:
docs, crazy, evil, hate, humanity,
Form: Lyric
Dr please listen
...Dr please listen
Dr. please listen,
I'm laid up in this bed and I'm wishin',
Hopin' for a doc to come with the vision,
To gimme pain meds,
the ones I've been missin'.
But into the wind,
man...
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Categories:
docs, anger, angst, conflict, drug,
Form: Free verse
Talent Stifled
...Middle aged man in Docs,
vintage leather jacket and
grey haired pubes around his cock.
Ill fitting tour shirts rekindling a hazy past.
Barrowlands, The Bunnymen. Hammersmith Odeon,The Clash.
U2...
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Categories:
docs, depression,
Form: Prose Poetry
Relationships with Doctors
...Relationships with doctors
Can be awkward, even though
You discuss the same old problems
Every time that you may go.
Yet if you have a physician
You have seen for many years,
All self-conscio...
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Categories:
docs, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Two faced science
...
I trusted all doctors, thought they know best
So many years learning, a noble quest
They want to do well by helping you
But from any kind of knowledge, evil can brew.
Scott was a dentist, a n...
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Categories:
docs, evil,
Form: Lyric
What’s Up Doc
...I went to the docs for a blood test; routine
That morning I’d been on the weighing machine
So I knew my weight and my height… give or take
(And, okay, I don’t look a lot like a rake)
He asked m...
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Categories:
docs, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The one fault
...See I never see it as fault
She eats in bed
English quite a hurdle for a Scot
but even the eating in bed
makes me s…………………,,,, e
………………m……………..l
………………………..I
English
Yeah I said it twice quit...
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Categories:
docs, poems,
Form: Free verse
Stay of Execution
...Everything in my life was going down
I lost hope for my country, my state, my town
A black dog followed me, I was weighed down by care
Saw a neon tiger in the dark, at day a spectral mare.
Offe...
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Categories:
docs, death, health, recovery from,
Form: Lyric
Satanist Seeks Conservative Aid
...There is a movement amongst Republican ranks
in The United States Congress, regarding the
the absence of religion in schools, and its
herald revival, like some Bible Belt Tent
-- minus th...
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Categories:
docs, absence,
Form: Political Verse
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