John Brennan Crutchley the Vampire Rapist
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they said he drained them —
not with charm
but with a syringe.
office door closed,
fake smile,
real bad smell.
the papers called him a vampire.
he was worse.
blood dripping in tubes,
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Categories:
khakis, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
she is like me
...They have the cutest clothes now for little granddaughters.
I cannot help but buy this outfit.
Another pink and orange thing? My daughter asks.
My granddaughter squeals and runs to her room to...
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Categories:
khakis, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Paesano of Gulf Circle
...the gulf circle is where
brown pelicans dive for their
dinner over the heads
of the hungry masculine
wood storks looking men
swarming in schools like shark
preying on beautiful elderly ...
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Categories:
khakis, hilarious, humor, muse, poetess,
Form: Sonnet
The Music Stops
...The jaws sing
As the drip, drip, drip,
Of the petroleum chorus
Dances across
The inverted aluminum
And the hissing starts
And the hissing stays
Its smell a warning
A final omen
Like the last...
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Categories:
khakis, death,
Form: Free verse
Camelot
...1/28/23
It's fact or not
From here to way beyond Camelot
I live it up and laugh a lot
Take off like an astronaut
Took one too many dabs and shots
Moving at the speed of a half knot
I start...
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Categories:
khakis, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Nantucket 1942
...I am running the Sconset bluff path.
I go past darkened houses,
black out curtains hanging,
past Linda Thomas and Jolene Baer
who are chasing rabbits into the privet hedges.
Their fathers call o...
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Categories:
khakis, war, world war ii,
Form: Free verse
Benedict Donald
...The White House harbors an orange traitor
Benedict Donald, science-hater
He never met a fact
He didn't try to whack
This prick puts the 'dick' in Dictator!
The obtuse ogre of petty poses
Has ...
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Categories:
khakis, anti bullying, community, political,
Form: Limerick
The Music Stops
...The jaws sing
As the drip, drip, drip,
Of the petroleum chorus
Dances across
The inverted aluminum
And the hissing starts
And the hissing stays
Its smell a warning
A final omen
Like the las...
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Categories:
khakis, death,
Form: Free verse
The Music Stops
...The jaws sing
As the drip, drip, drip,
Of the petroleum chorus
Dances across
The inverted aluminum
And the hissing starts
And the hissing stays
Its smell a warning
A final omen
Like the las...
...
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Categories:
khakis, death,
Form: Free verse
Creative Conformity
...I have a lovely daughter, who is a lovely mess,
for every rule you give her, she will have to test.
She’s always just inside the lines or balanced on the top.
She loves to challenge all the rules ...
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Categories:
khakis, art, daughter, fashion, funny,
Form: Rhyme
The Music Stops
...The jaws sing
As the drip, drip, drip,
Of the petroleum chorus
Dances across
The inverted aluminum
And the hissing starts
And the hissing stays
Its smell a warning
A final omen
Like the las...
...
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Categories:
khakis, death,
Form: Free verse
Cool Dad
...Strutting down York Avenue,
Appearing in a hurry,
His face is beatific,
Showing not a drop of worry.
With one child in his hand grasp
And another at his chest,
He seems a modern father
But h...
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Categories:
khakis, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Saved By the System In Waco
...The real clues
are in the cobweb scraps
dropped by
hapless bronze birds
that will never
feed again
The children
are all there
in little specks of
brittle hopes in
black pieces
in the di...
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Categories:
khakis, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Left Hands With Purpose
...From the train platform I see you
Actually - all are watching
As rap music blares from a dark blue Hyundai
All of you sing out the words with a special attitude –
“In my Mercedes”
Four boys sta...
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Categories:
khakis, black african american, clothes,
Form: Free verse
Longing To Go To Africa
...Longing to go to Africa
Babe I know this is spontaneous
and we're just coming off a good food fight
but listen, not to the paradox,
let's go to Africa.
Wouldn't that be a poke in the night,
a...
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Categories:
khakis, africa, nature, romantic,
Form: Free verse
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