Long Abstinent Poems

Midterms are over and I killed ‘em (Yes, even physics) - yeah me! I spent the last two weeks like prisoners do, marking off days until - freedom. Now the pressure’s off and I can...

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Now gather around, ye lusty lads, a tale I'll tell to thee
Of jealous Gods, monsters and ill-fated men who sailed the sea.
My tale is set in hoary times when fickle fate was by divine decree.
Then...

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The day I heard I had HIV

The letter from the health department read like this in so many words: “Your lifestyle has caught up with you and you have been a naughty girl. You have...

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An old Ethiopian veteran of the love wars 
once told a newlywed Kenyan kid:
If you want the infant marriage to survive,
make it to the golden years Mt. Kilimanjaro side
You gotta keep the giraffe standing up,
when...

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Though no advocate of radical mass stick tummy, 
there must needs be 
some nonviolent modus operandi and/or 
modus vivendi spelling abandonment, 
whereby two party bicameral political  
system in United States buzzfeed ding, 
sans avarice,...

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Her scars scream
 "Victor"

her eyes say,
Guilty

her hands,
lover,mother,wisdom

Her mouth,
betrayal,numbness


                           ...

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A resilient addict with corona

Believes he is immune as a stoner

Puts Mary Jane on the mask

And Jimmy Beam in his flask

Fortifies his deluded persona


Quite soon though his supply is depleted

In withdrawal he feels so mistreated

Smokes...

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They said that some men had the callings of planets,
Stationary compared to mortals,
Abstinent and moral,
That the energy they were given to live,
Attracted others like a Sun would give,
That they were gods amongst men third person,
Always...

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A voice From the Past 

My childhood friend rang me he hadn’t been ringing me for some time
 he is the shy type and only ring when he has been drinking and judging 
by his...

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I deferred the words " I love you"
Until the morrows light.
Words, that from my heart,
I felt impressed upon to say.

For sure, "I love you",
Would have best been said that night.
Still I reserved ownership,
For perhaps some...

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Quit smoking, her son laments
as she takes a drag
from her
kingsize kents

You smoke too much, he cries
as tears fall down her face
from smoke blowing
into her eyes

You'll be sorry, he quips
as she swears while
her fingers slide down
the...

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Here I let go a wish again
Here I lose one more bargain

Was ready to start early at the dawn
Would have accepted a game drawn
Was instead handed a routing defeat
Call it a harakiri or a rival's...

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