Long Acupuncture Poems

I was in Nazareth the other day
waiting for a visit with my acupuncture ecotherapist.

The waiting room is minimalist-zen, I suppose.
While waiting to be invited in next,
I took a chair
with a magazine table in front
displaying two...

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Thoughts of wisdom.

Now grandpa was a guy
A man I held up high
Everything he told me
I knew it was no lie.

All those facts he told
While lying in his bed
Waiting for his God
To claim that he was...

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Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Are you upset by stomach pains
Diarrhea and bad cramps
Are you so dog-gone tired
You can’t even outrun your Gramps
Have you tried all the common cure-alls?
Medication - - - therapy
Massage and acupuncture
But relief just...

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                              TWILIGHT’S OWN...

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Autumn moon
Cloudy hide-and-seek;
A celestial play

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Old folks home
In distant suburbs;
Desolate aura

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Moon cake festival
Chinese mid-autumn moods;
A lovers' tryst

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Chinese medicine man
Consult for pain remedy;
Acupuncture and heat

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Evening stroll
Fresh air after rain;
Wet pathways

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Street commotion
Fiery tempers flare;
Accidental collision

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Sundry shopping list
So much...

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Monster

What was it about me 
that let you see my full potential?
I was nothing extraordinary, 
kind of nondescript really.
Like the weakling on the back of comics
I wanted to have those  big muscles.
No more sand...

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A needle: a small, thin object
with a sharp point that mends
our open wounds. 

Sewing needles are polished
and used by seamstresses
to keep our clothes 
stitched and tailored.
Acupuncture needles,
a traditional remedy believed
to heal the body and mind.

Fresh...

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in the arena of battle,
t.v. on snipe

drawing his long sword from its sheath,
every inch cacophonously sharpened

sinister with geared teeth

nonsense forms from ancient bowels,
utterance of a lion woken from sleep

roaring out profanity and analytical resound,
playback of...

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I despise you every day  
Pills needed to make pain go away
Tried so many to help me through
A pain free day, impossible that's true.

Patches,nerve blocks,try Botox
Acupressure, acupuncture, re-adjust
Ice and heat, new pills this week
Go...

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Time slips away
In a brisk flow,
Ooze of nine days
Where writes don't show.


A spinal pain
From a wound old,
Comes yet again
As hurt unfolds.


A pain so deep
As backache sheers,
To disturb sleep
In moments clear.


A fatal step
In awkward turn,
Can set...

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onion booty delight
i love staring at the art of it all
you may look at me as the typical male
well i cannot help myself when i stop, look and wonder....wonder, look, and stop
then i look at...

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i went to wendy's today 
and i purchased an orange cream soda
i then went to my old neighborhood to a particular house
in front of that particular house, i poured out the creamy orange contents 
a...

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TRUTH 3

Truth shot point blank through
the centre of her forehead 
Blood spurting, soiling fine furs
of humanoids at play with
slick lies and shallow Hansard words

They try to acupuncture Truth

Blood that stains and weeps and weeps
blood that...

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Was it Mercury in retrograde,
Or the moon in Capricorn?
Did my horoscope predict this fate?
Was it destined the day I was born?

When love let me down
I was walking the track
With a train coming on,
And a bullseye...

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NEVERMORE

What hell!  Of pale-green fever
that slithers and shakes no longer,
clammy under a cold clean sheet.

Feel the weight of gold roses placed
over the splintered sphinx,
luck of flotsam wood escape —
of twisted fate, no wand will...

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Shivering with cold the patient reposed on the lightly padded table
Trying not to move for acupuncture needles were all over now-
in her arms, her feet, and her tummy
Ouch! She said as they were pushed in.
OUCH!...

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it is so cold in the morning
everything feels like cacti with acidic points
i wonder if i felt like being a volunteer for a new type of acupuncture
whatever the heck, it is something i did not...

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I was doing political work with a specific movement
 I was in my first week of acupuncture school
I had worked hard to be in school for a long time 
I did not intend to be...

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A breathing habit.
Undeniable addiction.
Pin pricks of the frontal cortex,
Social acupuncture..
Easy subjects.

Standing before your face,
Or alone in my own meditation.
I can't stop myself,
To break apart your mental station.

Surgically navigating the words.
Is like numbing one's brain.
Pinpointing thoughts...

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I once had a lover who was a smoker
I told him I really wish he’d quit
The smell alone was quite a choker
And his clothes were full of it
I knew he was addicted and afflicted 
So...

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So many Cantankerous, old argumentative  men
Live all their days in misery,
Rehashing and recouping from an old war injury.
As Buster the dog slept soundly.

An rusty fishing rod, stood in the corner,
Buster the dog flaps his...

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You finally lost your feelings for me
I turned away, I´d lied to you: you left
You were ´him´to our gang: I was She
My restless notion of you was false theft

Again, over and over, something´s there
A finger...

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