Long Amputate Poems

I met a proper woman in a proper pub on a Monday in Peoria. It was noon, time for lunch, and we were sitting stool to stool over very large burgers at a long mahogany...

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Suicide, euthanasia
I never thought I’d be the one to go down like this
But I wanted to have control in the way I was sent out of this world
Instead of kept barely alive, pointless.
My parents refused...

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Fitness guru (grew)
     to an abrupt screeching halt,
     i.e. did dramatically abate,
whence significant block of time,
     I formerly did allocate
(within recent past)
 ...

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Driving home one day after hours of monotonous office work,
Saw a man sitting by the road; looked as one down on his luck.
Paid small notice to the figure; my lonely life was in a rut.
He...

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Fierce fighting raged, but surprise was gone,
the Americans rallied and pushed hard,
the Indians fell back, out of the ravine,
the patriots driving them that far.

Hand-to-hand combat broke out brutally,
with knives, clubs, and rifle-stocks,
Iroquois would wait until...

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Lucubrations fuels ebullience

Unsolicited, revered, and praised
potential literary fete,
(yes a bit hyperbolic),
sans mine posted poems that perambulate
such feedback, whither donning trumped
("FAKE") facade, Oriel sincere

twittering, nonetheless tis great
for an ego striving to maintain
hum bull modesty, yet I...

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Unsolicited, revered, and praised
potential literary fete,
(yes a bit hyperbolic),
sans mine posted poems that perambulate
such feedback, whither donning trumped
("FAKE") facade, Oriel sincere

twittering, nonetheless tis great
for an ego striving to maintain
hum bull modesty, yet I hate
to be...

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I have developed a temporary dislike of the things that I’ve convinced myself have been keeping you away from me. Mere substitutes that admitted to the murder of your mind.

This phone, and this 11 o’clock...

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Jock stumbled - pals called him a wus
(No injury was obvious)
But Jock bruised his willy
And now he feels silly
With todger strapped up in a truss 


WRITTEN BY JAN ALLISON

Old Jock had injured and bruised his...

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In prison, and bereft of all defence,
But my Healer, graver than ever ere, 
Swirls his chair round, yon of window to stare 
As if to get inspired from Providence. 
More of a dumb than mute,...

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A high trend economically tries a downward spiral of many neighborhood cries. Due to the mind altering ways abused violence gets a cheer as the young silence drops a tear. Nobility runs short and none...

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How do we uproot ourselves from the earth to fully ascend to the heaves above, 
how do we reconfigure our neurological pathways to convince our heads to unplug from the system, 
our hands to put...

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Okay, EVIL
You have reached out to me
You have touched me, if you will
But what has been your purpose?
You have never made me rich, nor famous
Or tempted me to sell my soul to the devil
Yet I...

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ONE AGAINST MANY

A plentiful soul sits in London, England 
Parliament Square “in all weathers and with 
little protection.”

A peace campaigner, a Christian, and a father
appalled by the sanctions the West imposed
on Iraqis. 

The results were...

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In Birmingham I tried a scam,
involving some velvet and ham.
It appears I am damned.
Wound up in the slam.

I tried a hustle one night in Brussels.
But all I could rustle,
was just enough muscle,
to muster a bustle.

I...

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You swallow billions in cash, yet your assault strengthens,
everything with life now stands on one side against you
but your unpredictability is what gives you this audacity.
Your sarcasm and indifference to mankind
may seem to amputate medical...

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There was four of us hooked up to I V's in the preparation room. Sebatian was a young boy in his early teens; What are you in for I asked. I got hit by a...

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https://soundcloud.com/user-927728032/somesorrowsjustdontdrown2-by-markhallidayx

Sometimes I’m so sad,		
Other times I’m just raging mad.
The gal that said she would love me forever		
Went and left me for another.

I just hate to say		
That I feel like a damn cliché.
She double-crossed me like...

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(1st verse)
Sometimes I'm so mad.
Other times I'm just raging sad.
The gal that told me she would love me forever
Went and left me for another.

(2nd verse with extra line for emphasis)
I just hate to say
That I...

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At first it was innate
Went on our first date
Got their by eight
Not a minute too late
Kisses on my face
Sped up my heart rate
Wanna take me to Kuwait
Too swift in these skates
Scared of our fate
Got me...

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A nice veneer
Looking solid and good;
Termites devour within


Life hazards
Venture bleeding;
More vitamin M needed


Business failure
Shocking casualties;
Bankrupted parties


Spice can smell nice
But nice can tell lies;
Sometimes a vice


Impressive bungalow
Sporty car;
Heavy in debt woes


Sad but true
Vanity masquerades;
Not the real...

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Sometimes I’m so sad,		
Other times I’m just raging mad.
The gal that said she would love me forever		
Went and left me for another.

I just hate to say		
That I feel like a damn cliché.
She double-crossed me like...

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From river to the sea, a Palestinian utopia;
like wind that blows everything away, the meanness and exclusion,
a good tide that's a gift to the world;
a gracious inheritance for the dispossessed,
longing for better days, when babies...

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Five months in the hospital.
They don't know what is wrong.
I.C.U. and feeding tubes.
What the hell is going on?

They've run every test known to man.
Still can't say why she's sick again.
Amputate the leg. Shave the head.
Dialysis...

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You come into our minds, entering....like a criminal.
Breaking into our thoughts, disguised as fun.
But you're no ordinary criminal, you bring filth and disease.
Like a black plague, on TV and net, you torment the unsaved.
An evil...

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