Long Ampersand Poems

Self help addict needles unsuspecting reader 

Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a baker's dozen
as thee doodling cock doth crow 
scouting about for carrion 
scavenging for dead animals 
and rooting about...

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The American Library Association
      implores cognoscenti tubby alert
for impersonators, who
     call themselves Ernie and Bert

     took a page from Sesame Street Playbook
oft...

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Incomprehensible space/time continuum intrigues...

One insignificant, infinitesimal
incomprehensibleness cosmic speck,
who doth readily confess
swallowed within

infinite cosmic wormhole, nonetheless,
he feels mind boggled, fascinated,
transfixed... helpless to express
following concept suddenly
gripping his feeble mental compass.

I haint never gonna get
smart enough to understand
supposedly...

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The American Library Association
      implores cognoscenti tubby alert
impersonators, who
     call themselves Ernie and Bert

     took a page from Sesame Street Playbook
oft times...

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Hidden under crop circle
resembling an ampersand
hides sheathed silo - obscured,
said symbol adorned every armband
of national socialist, yet weapons

of mass destruction) bland
lee, blatantly ignored global pact
prepared from this once (bajillion
years ago) geologic bottomland
repurposed for a bomb...

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Conditionally,
“unconditional”
comes with its 
vast conditions,
don’t you agree?
we invest our love,
and all of ourselves 
into the adoration
and dissection 
of all forms 
of muses,
who will, 
or will not
be found 
swimming amused 
in each others' 
minds, 
in each...

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An amber light from a flower lamp,
Shrouds the room, 
With a missing a petal,
The 75 watts bulb pierces it like a stigma,
There's an old mattress lying on the floor,
The brown cold floor with the smell...

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I find it a little funny that the extraordinarily
long messages we used to write each other-
those used to be called letters, right? 
But, now they're digital. And they're now void of some actual letters, because-...

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I crashed into a language barrier

So they put me in an induced comma

As they re-calibrated my damaged grammar

Transforming my full stop into a full start


As I wake from my abbreviation
     ...

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MISFIT

"I have been a stranger in a strange land"

Today I am free, in a land that I recognise
Unlike that time in that very strange land
And as a stranger, almost all was a surprise
Everything so difficult...

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The landmark was given the name 
"Exclamation Point," and indeed it became 
the most exciting place I'd ever known!
The "parentheses" between us shone
of sun "dashes" splashing 
on the "comma" aquamarine.
My fashion "square bracket" charms swayed...

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What in the world is this new Metaverse?
Now they are selling houses, I understand,
[Who would have thought in this universe]
Buy now, I’m told, for there is limited land.

I am so far behind in this new...

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Between hours from morn to sundown
I drift in a place of nowhere--
and though birdsongs seemingly coo
 “It’s alright; you are young"
frailties leave me wanting
each and every move that twines us.

These doleful eyes hide away
behind a...

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My heart's hedera [†]
Like two paragraphs
It breaks [selah]
     between you and I
It breaks [selah]
     and aches just to look at you
It breaks [selah]
    ...

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What a great day here do  I behold!
Twelve-Twelve-Twelve
An unusual day of a lifetime accuracy
With significant multiples of twelve

A purposed twelve numeral by God
Twelve sons of Jacob,
Twelve tribes of Israel,
Twelve apostles of the lamb 

This...

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With my legs strong, two feet apart
Poser, poser, a quick photo opportunity
From front page through to pages four and ten
With my tail wrapped around my feet
And my coat hanging from my head
With my unbearable youth...

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