Carp Fishing In Michigan
...Clutching
The end of my Zebco rod and reel
As the cast of tackle is flung
Like a small knot of costume jewelry
Skimming atop the caramel-colored Grand River
Dragonfly rattling awry
The vibrat...
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Categories:
doubleheader, devotion, fish, fishing, friend,
Form: Free verse
Wistful Accursed Penniless Fate God Dime Mitt
...Wistful Accursed Penniless Fate...God Dime Mitt!
(neither defamation, nor blasphemy meant, sans Title)
Despite ingestion of
anti anxiety medications
ferocious hellish onslaught
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Categories:
doubleheader, 12th grade, allusion, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Snail Will Get To Easter Just As Soon
...Faulkner's comment, I imagine him
tossing it off like Yogi Berra between games
of a doubleheader. The hero, the expert, the virtuoso
has no real control, is going to feel
unmitigated, unsparing f...
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Categories:
doubleheader, community, death, easter, games,
Form: Verse
On the Way To a Doubleheader In 1964
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Turn that radio off. I don’t want to hear anymore.
All they play is music from that Liverpool Fab Four.
Those four English guys are polluting the airwaves.
Somehow, their music is what ...
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Categories:
doubleheader, history, music,
Form: Rhyme