Night Terrors
...Running down Chicago Ave barefoot brain buzzing hymns and static, neon crucifix blinking above a bodega, the gospel of smoke and piss, all-night diner flickering with ghosts of jukeboxes past—she lau...
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Categories:
jukeboxes, allegory, allusion, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Jukeboxes and Crystal Chandeliers
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The ‘Jerk,’ the ‘Frug, the ‘Freddie’
The ‘Pony,’ the ‘Chicken’ the ‘Limbo’
all gone the way of my old stereo…
Yet ballroom dancing keeps coming back
and sq...
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Categories:
jukeboxes, dance, future, music, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Disturbing Evil emerged
...My terror began decades ago as I’d witnessed the plotting plans of taking a building down meetings conversations of how dynamite hand grenades including golf balls with draino finally dust pans to po...
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Categories:
jukeboxes, allah,
Form: Naat
SPECIAL AGENT ALAN KING FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS
...YOU ARRIVED ON CUE I SUPPOSE RIGHT AFTER THE CHRISTMAS DAY ARSONS MURDERS PROCLAIMING MY LIFE WAS IN GRAVE DANGER WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ARSON MURDER 8 ELDERLY PERSONS PARISHES PROCLAIMED MY EX HUSBA...
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Categories:
jukeboxes, chicago, city, i love
Form: Dramatic Monologue
BUDDIES
...Moon's midriff chequered with light blue letterboxes and legos
Carbon-dating the museums of our miniature hands riding the nightingale jukeboxes,
Contoured in concertos of glacier nightgowns and ...
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Categories:
jukeboxes, blessing, father son, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
The Water In Every Bath Split In Half
...3,334 years ago tomorrow
the Israelites crossed the Sea
If they had all drowned instead
today I wouldn’t be me…
The Sea split in half, all the books say
and so did water in every bath
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Categories:
jukeboxes, history, humorous, jewish, water,
Form: Rhyme
Teenage Kisses
...Kisses so sweet, wondrous to remember.
Autumnal ones, under those sensual trees of September.
When loving winds beneath my uniformed skirt did blow.
And I wore your senior ring,which still in me...
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Categories:
jukeboxes, autumn, cute love, kiss,
Form: Couplet
The Rebel
...The Hollywood hills still echoes with his
Rebellious yell, we are the forever young
Generation.
An iconic American symbol, to this the lost
Age of innocence.
Nay did this rebel die without a cause,
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Categories:
jukeboxes, art, hero, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Jigsaw Puzzle
...(Manifesto)
VIII … stop! - Skid! - Shift knobs, slide gears, vomit numbness, fondle!… the music of
guillotines!…
VII … unmannered retching! since everything is a percentage of death in mote...
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Categories:
jukeboxes, socialdark, dark, love, giggle,
Form: Free verse
The Waffle House Way!
...Customers are like bouquets of flowers passing through our twenty-four hours.
Breakfast, lunch, or dinner all 365 calendar days guaranteed for a full twenty-four seven.
“Hello Sir”! Welcome to Waff...
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Categories:
jukeboxes, adventure, allegory, confusion, devotion,
Form: Narrative
Dodge City
...I arrest in the road and think this is the town
Where the tumbleweed girls bowl around and around,
I freeze in the park and think this is the town
Where the seeds of sweet love die cold in the gro...
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Categories:
jukeboxes, death, life, sad, social,
Form: Verse