Please come join me in spirit if not in body
...Please come join me in spirit if not in body...
regarding my resumption
of daily/mostly nightly constitutional
I accompany my dark shadow...
(small number of hours
before edge of night,
wh...
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Categories:
exterminator, absence, animal, autumn, celebration,
Form: Free verse
six foot rat snake inside my office
...was skipping through my bathroom one day
about to land in my office, when an inner voice yelled hey!
Turn on the light first, which I had never done, but did it this time.
Saw a six foot black rat...
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Categories:
exterminator, animal,
Form: Rhyme
The Exterminator
...Driving through the neighborhood in a shiny armored truck,
The exterminator arrives, looking to make a few hundred bucks.
He goes from door to door and asks to come inside:
And he already knows th...
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Categories:
exterminator, hero, hilarious, humor, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy Growth
...Shame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...
and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones
subject courtesy senescence
upon...
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Categories:
exterminator, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Once Again Besieged By Fruit Flies
...Once again besieged by fruit flies
Pestiferous infestation quite
argh apartment unit b44
plagued with plight
analogously linkedin to phenomena
experienced within outer limits
of the twili...
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Categories:
exterminator, anger, animal, august, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Resumption of Daily Nightly Constitutional Lap1
...Resumption of daily/nightly constitutional
I accompany my dark shadow...
(many hours before edge of night,
where twilight zone evokes night gallery),
and resumed walking a circuit
around perim...
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Categories:
exterminator, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
October 2018 Besieged By Fruit Flies
...Poet of Perkiomen Valley
discovered aforementioned titled poem
about thirty months ago he wrote
impossible mission critters to smote
chronic issue yours truly does note
years later meaning today...
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Categories:
exterminator, 12th grade, absence, animal,
Form: Free verse
Mine Unending Nightmare With Crippling Generalized Anxiety
...Triggered to skyhigh elevated state
when I received communiqué
courtesy management warden
christened and otherwise
known as Jackie Geiger
dated March 9, 2022.
She averred fruit fly infestatio...
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Categories:
exterminator, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Dogs Will Not Bother These Traps
...Dogs won’t bother these traps the exterminator said.
They have poison in them and they’ll make mice dead.
They snap shut with indicators of green and red.
He was their chief expert, his name was B...
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Categories:
exterminator, dog,
Form: Rhyme
My Way To Clean
...We shoveled stuff under the couch.
Piles of it, until it was lumpy and the cushions rose in the air.
We shoved stuff under the refrigerator
But the mice shoved it back
This is when we fired the e...
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Categories:
exterminator, women,
Form: Light Verse
Cleaning the House
...We shoveled stuff under the couch.
Piles of it, until it was lumpy and the cushions rose in the air.
We shoved stuff under the refrigerator
But the mice shoved it back
This is when we fired the e...
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Categories:
exterminator, humorous,
Form: Free verse
A Many Splendid Thing
...I think of a past lover,
One lost now in the machinery of time,
but that’s just a poet’s conceit,
she has built a castle
where she now rules dozen of white mice,
one of those twitchy loyal roden...
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Categories:
exterminator, poetry,
Form: Free verse
We Can Do That Tomorrow
...I can do it tomorrow, I think, feeling good in my pajamas.
Isn’t this Monday? My husband asks.
Drat! I thought it was Sunday.
Have I already had two days off?
I look at the clock.
I teach school...
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Categories:
exterminator, hilarious,
Form: Free verse
Monoku Monday - Feb 2021
..."Book Worms" Posted 1 Feb 2021
i'm reading a book about anti-gravity I can't put it down
that bio of Led Zeppelin's guitarist is a real Page turner
don't ...
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Categories:
exterminator, humor,
Form: Monoku
Plots For Sale
...Clean and empty vacant spot
Built to make sure you thoroughly rot
Spacious area, room to grow
For a lot cheaper than it ought to go
Nice little path for a flower bed
An ex barber next door to sh...
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Categories:
exterminator, bereavement, dream, fate,
Form: Rhyme
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