Long Amped Poems

I finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be home
to personally walk them on,
harness them in,
and wheel them back...

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The victim list keeps growing

But no one really cares

The gristmill claims another one

Keep your hands in and don't stare

Hollywood is the golden land

The eternal silver screen

But many souls are lost here

A lot of greats or...

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Bittersweet pyrrhic victory...

if a 2024 November presidential Biden win
pandemonium likely to occur, 
subsequently figurative tectonic upheaval  
might set United States in a tailspin.

Though discouraged, disenchanted,
disheartened, et cetera Democrat,
I intend to exercise enfranchisement
wherein human made...

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Just add beer and abracadabra . . . 
Flavor galore! 
Just don’t add too much . . . 
Alcoholism is a disease. 
It should cook out though. Anyway, I hope it’s not too cheesy. 
Some...

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My heart is broken,
Never would I have thought that my love would be traded for a measly token.
	
All of this was done to ME when I should’ve been the one who was provoked,
I was the...

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I saw you leave for a trip of discovery 
I saw your face alight with such enthusiasm and delight.
You set off, to explore the world around you
***
While you were gone, I witnessed the utmost betrayal...

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I put my lips to his cheek 
Reminded me of winter time, not ice cold
Without warmth yes, but with texture
hard to the touch like a rubber glove on a rock

Thoughts will never leave me
Sad thing...

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As the sun sets
A hot wind like this
Does not belong in downtown Lansing
But here it is
Speed-boating down the Grand River grinning and wearing Ray-Bans

My wife and I
We hold down our pouncing bouncing patio table
At the...

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He is amped up excited
Very eager and ready
No shaking this time
His hands they are steady

His next victims he's found
Quickly and urgent
So quick with his ok plan
This time it felt perfect

A need to get it done
So...

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SOUP SAFARI
,      ,        ,        ,



here I am in NYC...packing after a safari –theme night party
with Soup...

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Can ‘Religious’ folk claim a connection with God
who refuse to condemn the cops’ stopping of those
(who refuse to obey), who retreat from police
at a walk (not a run), and get shot in the back
for this...

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with amped up current 
   ohm me dog mental illness priceline paid
for fueling, fostering, 
   ferociously festering buzzfeeding 
   anxiety panic, obsessive predipositions, 
   et cetera a...

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Omg! I totally just got the newest smart phone.
Hmmmmmm, but I can't find the buttons or hear 
a dial tone.
I've been so amped about the coolest technology.
And I can lock the screen and I don't...

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i've got dirty demons clawing and crawlin up and down my back
with sticks and stones and bricks and bats...steady on the attack
GET BACK!!!!
cause i've got mighty angels resting on my shoulders
they're solid as rocks and...

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I've got dirty demons creeping and crawling up and down my back
Always on the attack...with sticks and stones and bricks and bats
GET BACK!!!
Cause I've got mighty angels...they're resting on my shoulders
They're solid as rocks and...

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On Tour


To dive into the world of the great barrier reef would be enough
assimilating into the tranquil environment somewhere in the Capricorn
looking below while leaping merrily from a bluff
Like a babe in earth's womb, I...

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I don't quite get it
I can't quite follow your mind
I sit
and wait'
hand and foot for you
and you can't even remember a date
I sense your sly stealthiness
the day when you left me for good
doesn't come yet...

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just driving freely
on a whim, i get on the highway
knowing and not knowing where it leads me
i just drive and drive
i ache for a new scene after sweating for peanuts in the same reality
friday afternoon...

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Surfing the tides of life 

I'm still riding the waves duck diving my way through 
Or occasionally having to ask for a hand and toe in when I need to, 
Sometimes I'm amped and pop...

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There is a guy named lance
who loved to dance
moved to America for his chance
off the molly he had ants in his pants
raves and rants
ecstasy cramps
drunken broken lamps
licking acid stamps
having sex with tramps
stuck in a trance
you...

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Staying at a Marriott,
You know just what you'll get.
In terms of cleanliness and style,
You have no need to fret.

The same applies to other chains -
It's comforting to find
The room decor and toiletries
Are what you had...

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Staying at a Marriott,
You know just what you'll get.
In terms of cleanliness and style,
You have no need to fret.

The same applies to other chains -
It's comforting to find
The room decor and toiletries
Are what you had...

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Mosey along, the martyr strode
Mishmashed mouthpiece-
An emblem crusted implode
What struck him dusty-
A fanciful future
Rhymed in dust heaps

Communal swelling
The measure is conspicuous 
We've been trained
To magnify the magician's farm
Glowing on the backs
Of extracted wealth
Misery soon follow

The...

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