Long Albuquerque Poems

MY BUCKET LIST

Years and years ago, I made a bucket list.
I looked everywhere and could not find it.
I don’t remember everything I listed,
so it’s time for a new one to be created
or just to go...

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Five in the morning
Orange and red glow in the east
A new day is born

A single rain drop
Looks to be the final straw
Now the flood begins

Albuquerque view
Volcanoes on the mesa
Since the age of time

Once green and...

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Early in the morn, just before the sun would rise
The scent of bacon, thick enough to burn my eyes
Crept under my door, across the sheets and into my nose
The aroma I smelt every morning before...

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I know I've been to Chicago,
     But I only remember the snow.
I know that I've been to Albuquerque,
     but I mostly just remember the hot marketplace
 ...

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If ever I had to have a country victim of pedophily : LXXXVI

[Note: 216,000 cases of pedophily, perpetrated by the clergy, have been recorded by the Catholic Church in France since 1950.]

If ever I had to...

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The bike was loaded and packed
The duffle bag strapped to the rack
The air was crisp when we started out at dawn
In the early morning hours we were gone 
Down the road with the wind on...

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Sleeping Porch

Light bulbs strung like stars made their way from the camp house down to the dock.  We had two old boats tied up down there at the ready.  One was made of...

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Your Long Angular Feet

You don’t know me, but
I been riding here in this trundling lounge car
for two hours now, watching 
you and your long angular feet,
while rumbling over these burdened tracks,
to silent Garden City, up...

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Denny’s got an older sister...gorgeous head to toe...living down in Albuquerque… married...couple kids...
Owns a chain of hair salons, makin’ mega-bucks, an’ when I stop to think about my didn’ts and my dids,

Having hung around with...

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Being the urban outlaw has its own rewards, especially when this vingilante-like person is helping the Marshall oficers capture the bad guys. It's just like a modern-day version of the Wild Wild West, except that...

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These old boots, they've sure been around. They don't know where their goin' but they sure know where they've been. Drinkin' Corona and dancing with a Mexican Senorita in Jaurez, the smell of perfume and...

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Speaking Spanish wasn't easy for a gringo like me, but I had no choice. I was playin' cards and drinkin' Mezcal at a nowhere bar in El Paso. I didn't have any money in my...

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INTUITION 
 
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I was trying to sell my 1990 Buick Reatta 
To a friend of mine, Jones, who had only one daught’a.

It was for her to drive to school, 
And we were meeting in Albuquerque which was...

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Damn blizzards don't know nothin' 'bout Christmas
They blow or they don't and this time they did
Nobody told me to be a cowboy
Though some told me that I had lost my lid

'Tween the hoss and me...

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Holiday Traveler 

Millicent from Milwaukee Wisconsin was using the library computer trying to 
adjust her schedule to actually catch her flight home her collage is in ROME. 
Tommy Thompson is in Albuquerque trying to get...

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BIRTHDAY TO REMEMBER
    
  My birthday with my two daughters was to die for.
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She told it this way.....

He said...San Francisco......
Then up to Mendocino
I said...can I go
He said...I guess you can

'Cause, long since Albuquerque
That's when he first hurt me
My heart's dying to divert me
To the promised land

And...oh, the nights...

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ON THE TOUR BUS IN SAN  MAR-ANDORRA-STEIN


“We are older than  your George Washington;
We have  the tallest fields of cotton
West of the Volga; and our castles are small
But all  guaranteed to enthrall.......”

It...

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The Great Plains offers it beauty slowly as the edge of 


The Rocky Mountains rose like a rugged and 


Unclimbable fence keeping them penned in


Driving southwest the line of fence posts became a blur of


Old...

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Towing a trailer at night
weaving east over I-10, 
west Texas plains
from Albuquerque, racing
to leave behind hard driven rain
I must have been insane?  
Wipers hardly swiping
the sheets, or rivulets
blown back and forth
across a desolate road,
no...

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She wasn't one to worry, never saw her cry
Still she was melancholy, never told me why
Now she's gone a wanderin', didn't tell me where
Didn't ask where she'd go,the chance is I've been there

For I have...

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When I think of you dear
My thoughts go back a ways
When we were there together
Back in our younger days

You loved your Albuquerque
The enchantment it fulfills
From down along the Rio
Up to the Northeast hills
And the lofty...

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Albuquerque
You loved your Albuquerque
The enchantment it fulfills
From down along the Rio
Up to the Northeast hills
And the lofty Sandia Mountains
With their watermelon hue
But when I think of Albuquerque
I’m thinking dear of you

I could have stayed in...

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Ava - I spoke to your half sister today.  
She says it’s warm in Albuquerque.  She tells you hello 
and to please wish your mother, her step-mother,
a happy Mother’s Day on her behalf.
She...

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