toenail clippers wont do my nails
...toe nail clipper? she asks. I laugh and scoff.
It’ll take a jackhammer to get these nails off.
They are thick, gristly, harder than a screw.
What about sheep shears? Asks my cousin Lou.
She doe...
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Categories:
gristly, me,
Form: Rhyme
Mythos
...The summer was lush with death,
it turned the hare into a twirling dervish,
the raccoon to a pantomime villain,
forced mice
to sing in the jaws of predators.
The woods are bare now,
trees rat...
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Categories:
gristly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Former Slender Man Lapsed Unitarian Anorexic
...A former slender man (lapsed Unitarian anorexic)...
deplores adipose tissue gain
No Holiday music can soothe savage beast
washboard abdomen weight watcher's dream fleeced
skinny bag of lovely b...
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Categories:
gristly, 7th grade, absence, age,
Form: Rhyme
The Battle At Beaver Creek
...The Hunters sallied forth... their hearts aglow
with a fearlessness displayed.
A pugnacious merry band of brothers
who to a boy were not afraid.
To find the foe they hoped to vanquish...
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Categories:
gristly, adventure, humor, youth,
Form: Rhyme
A Former Slender Man Deplores Weight Gain
...I loathe shucking clothes,
(no matter eyes severely myopic)
in preparation for here goes
another warm shower quickly
relaxing this senescent
body ready to doze
soon after lathering
this blub...
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Categories:
gristly, age, beauty, clothes, funny,
Form: Free verse
My Blue Cheese Is Bacon
...MY BLUE CHEESE IS BACON
Crispy, well-done with lettuce and tomato on toast
with mayonnaise or miracle whip, a touch to my lips,
but how my mind races when soggy tomato does coast
do...
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Categories:
gristly, food,
Form: Rhyme
Overfed
...>Overfed
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author.
And Poetry Soup Honourably Mentioned.
Are you feeling overfed? Do you enjoy stuffing your head?
Actually I meant your mouth. But this ...
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Categories:
gristly, cat, food, loss, mum,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Trek Through the Tethered Wood
...Winding path through the tawny wood
Hanging branches form a shadowy hood
Dangling vines each spindled fold lace
Slippery, svelte moss cloaks the base
The vented light peeps through fibrous trellis
Ad...
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Categories:
gristly, adventure, courage, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme