Long Ambulatory Poems

Highlights from Highland Manor

Courtesy Goofus and Gallant 
who began their broadly-drawn 
moral plays in the 1950s, 
initially depicted as identical twins,
but later on, editors for Highlights 
indicated the two were brothers, 
but not twins, and...

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The winter of 1621 in Plymouth was harsh as could be,
The Pilgrims were sick and sorry they'd come,
They missed their warm English beds and their tea.
The still ambulatory shivered and shuffled about,
As they grinched, and...

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not in the heart again
for chrissakes it's like Swiss cheese
decoffinated please I'm a yet ambulatory zombie
off his medication as usual
alternatives to logic 101 with Prof. Spike
far too much work for a dead end
saw his only...

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Automobile prohibitive maintenance costs
pitches me pitifully begging for alms
lamenting dog forsaken
melon collie unpleasant circumstances
pleading with outstretched palms
disgraced to beg, perhaps donate
major organ and/or entire body

to ease vehicular qualms
aha... methinks the missus could pose
as ventriloquist after...

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since becoming housed here since this year
july first two thousand and seventeen, 
   tubby more precise where
with thee missus, amidst bucolic environs, 
   (one could don underwear

Schwenksville, Pennsylvania   
...

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While sidestepping impediments,
Achilles heel stricken with paralyzing zap
chronically inducing captain klutz
to bemoan and yap,
i.e. (think) booby trap
strategically laid down by the missus -

necessitating yours truly
to patschke with marauder map
in an to circumvent and handicap
becoming lame...

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Thankfully wife as helpmate available,
when yours truly feels unswell
her tender loving care can spell
relief afflicted which she can hopefully quell
but spouse of mine, he doth not aim to oversell
nevertheless counterpart valued
as once me Matty Mattel
prized...

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Battery Check

I had better say this before it is too late
& I'm doing a battery check 
down at the School of the Americas
badda boom mafia rim shot
the old wisdoms are newly or neo-inadequate
all of them...

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Thinking it sophisticated, he declared himself a sophist. 
Dwelling deep in Plato’s cave, he became learned in the shapes of shadows. 
Enamored by their dim dancing, he concluded there can be no truth.
One day he...

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Hallelujah medical coverage reinstated!

Prior to the morning
of August 15th, 2019
this joker riddled and
judiciously hollerith,  
punched with anxiety
approximately couple weeks earlier

prophetic notification
courtesy public assistance office
Norristown, Pennsylvania
wrought psyche asunder
worse news than plagued
with most pernicious disease

slack jawed...

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Most restful sleep since... being in utero

Courtesy restless leg syndrome
spouse called me expletive rat fink
ousted me out the bed with plink
as lovely bones almost got extinct,
whence consoled self singing ditty
Skidamarink a-dink a-dink

makeshift burrow of pillows...

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Long ago I recalled,
On my prayer mat I sat with my hands raised up to the skies in supplication
To thee thy Lord I prayed
Astray I am gone without thee, most high is Thee, show me...

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chambered poems
each bullet centered
match box soaks her



in
scratching ink




dripping
on
to
in
me






my gurgling
ambulatory emotions





we loved thogeter there
in that moment i loved her
that moment is in this moment





loved her as i did
as
i
do


foggy glass frames seen through
far beyond any dreams kissing...

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Every day, we breathe oxygen;
but do we ever thank the trees, 
which provide it?

Trees, like humans, grow and produce offspring.
They have roots in the soil;
human roots walk upon the soil.
Trees have trunks; humans have torso’s.
Trees...

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Who are the ugly people?
I cannot really see
Your nose is a tad wonky
But seems perfectly shaped to me

Who are the ugly people?
Perhaps the way you stroll
Is not quite catwalk ready
But you have ambulatory soul

Who are...

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Turning your eyes to distant stars,
You witness infinity spinning as it has
Aeons upon aeons before you were born,
Orbits and memories, oceans and dust.
Wherever you are, but a speck,
An ambulatory grain, sparkling, alive,
Epitome of the momentary

Whether...

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BIO MODIFIED - SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN

Southern
Being courteous, sentimental, compassionate, helpful to others 
I love Jesus, Southern Gospel Music, and Family
It is my plan to buy a new car, travel, and be on my own
Blessed to feel...

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weird clouds in a calm sky
a tornado is spotted
children want to peek

its roaring toward us
many are hysterical
hospital hallway

lights go out silence
day turns ebony
alerts hit cellphones

uncomfortable 
in my flimsy paper gown
next to wheelchairs

some run towards basement
non-ambulatory...

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 stopped at forget

it's a very strange thing indeed
when walking at a normal speed

your eyes set on circumspect,
brain bent on way to target

then suddenly, that metronome
that ambulatory twilight zone

of thoughtless walk
begins to balk-

left, then right-...

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In my spotless kitchen when I turned
on the light, there's this ambulatory inkspot
scuttling from sight.  Dare I name it?
even the name is ugly.  Roach, penultimate
horror, black and bug-ly.  I'm a swat team
of...

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