Long Absentia Poems

It is an unseasonable March day.
My kitchen blinds are drawn against morning sun,
their slender slats like new skin protecting the body's vital organs;
eyelids before this rose-covered tablecloth as though the blooms
are the pale larvae of...

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Wishing for 1984

'War is Peace Freedom
is Slavery Ignorance 
is Strength Big Brother…'

is waiting for Godot who came quickly and travelled from Pyongyang to glorious
theoretical impossibility, but wait everything goes and now we are on to...

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Crackling tension filled the community hall in Abergavenny 

‘We are in this together dear folks for a pound or a penny’

Speaking of which the loos were situated right behind the bar

To ensure that urinal relief...

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When I use my pen more often as a dart
then a tool for writing poetry, I'm lost.

When my mind can't find words that rhyme
I grumble to myself about my unfaithful muse.
She leaves no clues when...

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"BLACK CAT"



SILENCE
prowls on soft paws 
with sharp claws
Cutting up the 
Middle Road
Dark shadow moves 
SILIENCE
In absentia 
Empty Absynthe
Puncture wounds
Cold wind blows
Over tracks
Skids softly
like warm 
gants de Suède
on 
Poets’ Row
Rat goes 
Rat goes
Red scream 
scarlet ribbons...

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WOKE AND BROKE


        USA, how did it become so terribly lewd?
        Evil has taken free reign in all neighborhoods.

  ...

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My sister says
               my father was a good man --
but, how should I, 
       ...

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CHRISTMAS AT THE CUCKOO'S NEST

Of all the holidays that come and go
Christmas is the one that we love best.
No matter how crazy, it just goes to show
we love the yuletide in the cuckoo’s nest.

We deck...

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Why are there stars?

Without stars, how would we know that the darkness holds beauty and light in
     limitless value? Where would fireflies find the inspiration to put on their
  ...

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I come to your bedside once more,
you've poured our photos and poetry on the floor
an act of apostasy, a grim admission, the room in dim depression,
laying on your side , cheeks heated and soaked in...

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Part I:
im sorry that i cant care about you. valiums taste like smarties. i chew up one, then three. cry for help. im sorry i dont give a **** anymore. i have to snort a...

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Don’t know about you, but I think it’s stupid
To give lethal weapons to a diapered Cupid
(and what happens when he’s gotta go?)

See his soft feathered wings?
 (Those fat little things!)
They flutter fast as he flies...

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When Alex was tasked to pen eight straight A’s for an animate cause

He adjusted the angle arched forth in awe and anticipated attunement 

Ached with attrition and attributed an array afore attaching amends

  ...

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Hail, the doorway keen on the known world ... theme wails attention,
time of roses' blooms cower ... usurped magentas, aloof maroons,
for the flight of the gossamers ... assume benefits of the whole.

Latial premise culture ......

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Sam Ebenezer
a sad ol' geezer
was lamenting his shrinkage of late:
my worthless ding-a-ling
is a bell without ring
my manhood in diminishing state
 
From whence I salute
is thin as a flute
and soft to the touch as cashmere
I search...

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I was there, the last time that God lost
His Faith. Admittedly, since the death 
of His Son, there have been a few bad 
years that could have influenced His 

decision. He sent a note to...

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AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES

How do I know if I really have dementia
When remembering my name is the goal
Others maybe too kind to say the word
How they look, it’s what I have inferred
Less memory lapse, more...

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Never mind


He’s a cool cat, as a matter of fact
And there ain’t no doubting how you feel about that.
Whilst I am just a pig wallowing in the mud
And I will never be good enough.


She is...

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My autopsy room is a confessional, 
where killers in absentia divulge 
their sins through bodies
rigid and frigid, mutilated and mute.

Graffiti of abrasions, contusions and lacerations
reenact without deceit or reservations
a catalogue of perversions and violations.

Rage, hatred,...

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When you loved me, you were in absentia 
most days -- then, the phone call, 
and the champagne, cooling 
in a bucket at some classy venue 
or another, of your choosing.  But first, 
came...

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The air is calm, I feel no breeze,
to stir the trees, now bared of leaves.
There is no sun, the clouds are grey,
I know not joy; you've gone away.
Silence hangs heavy, lacking sounds,
no sign the world...

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Grand order
Grand order
Will come to order
In attendance:
God, us, Lucifer
and forbidden
fruit.
Old business:
Sin. The first time
we recognized
we we're fully naked
and experimented
with pleasures
derived from 
Kama Sutra.
Lucifer put a motion
on the table to write
another chapter
and we voted
Yay unanimously
New business:
God...

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I recall it like yesterday,
We could party,enjoy all day,
Limitations were a thing of the past,
We just ate and drank minus fast,
Water was in abundance,
And we enjoyed it at at a glance,
But not anymore now,the well...

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The missing link of their humanity
got replaced by Neolithic bonds,
uncivilized howls of cruelty
Crucifixion affliction in iron lung demand;
release the wolf, kill the Lamb
Many Stone Age hearts
numbed by the touch of their Ice Age hand

Shrill vocal...

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All of a sudden ,I can't stop thinking about you,
You're becoming an essence to my existence
Out of this feeling,there is no breakthrough,
It's so intense in me,with great suspense.

Trying to recall how all this drama started,
You,in...

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