Long Alp Poems

It's too hot and humid for September!
Even dust specks descending in the room's sunlight
are beads of sweat running down my sides.
I bring pencil, crossword and ice tea 
to this chair and table, these angled shutters,...

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I’ve been needing your lies 

I’ve been craving your poison 

I’ve been missing your demons 

I’ve been loving your hater 

While I was playing with death 

While it was ing me upside down 

While I...

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MAUDE

Her red plump lips doth tease releasing mood,
And glasses squeeze the shark-like eyes of Maude.
My tippy-toes reach her tall tattooed knees.
Maude’s eyes slide down Her beak-like nose.

She shakes aluminum-like paper pad,
“Why poet,” she sneers, “are...

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On the Pity pot with my Friend  ; I sit in a stupor : I’m drinking again
It’s been twenty years since I gave up the drugs I can’t get a handle on the
 ...

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So much words for soupers to give
So much comment I never can reply
Keeping me going… to only believe
How poetry will never die

Forgive me if I haven’t my words
Forgive me for comments made unheard
If a person...

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Every morning at the window aside,
I find myself waiting for the sun,
To raise up and melt the snow, 
The frost so hoar and numb.

Brooding on my thoughts so long,
Never did they hatch in this icy...

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NO LUNGFULS OF HOPE

In the beginning, you are uttering sugary words
Words that surprisingly became schmaltz for me
And I used to believe them
Cos I was lame back then

Your slippery mouth that distorted candor like cherry stems
Just...

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