Long Apartment house Poems

Love In The Library

     by Edmund Siejka

( East Of Seventh, poems by Edmund Siejka available on Amazon) 


He was a scrawny kid
In 1st grade his lunch money 
Often disappeared
By the 5th...

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Watching three cats 

Watching three cats 
gamboling along 
Looking at me 

While I look at them 
Each wondering what sort of weird creatures 
The other is 
And who is the real alien species? 

 
three...

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"THE BUTTERFLY CATCHER."


Chicano face.
California.
closer to death.
he just pulled up to a house where the car he's about to tow sits.
he tows a lot of cars, 
talks to people every day. 
he's loaded his truck.
"goodbye," 
he...

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My house (it's a really two-bedroom apartment
On the corner of Moorpark, lineup as if it
Was a firecracker or criminal lot, unshaven, old; 
Overcrowding and unquiet nearby an overcrowded
Avenue filled with prostitutes, hustlers, pimps, etc.)

	In front...

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MR. SIBARBARA

Mr. Sibarbara was 30s fat    really fat!    A big, fat, 
     good natured Italian senior
He got fat    stayed fat  ...

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"THE SHOPPING CART PEOPLE"



I've been in and out of this 
apartment house for months. 
I've met interesting people,
some married, some single,
some with fits of violence. 
some with drug and alcohol 
problems and some with 
financial...

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The poetry I write seems harsh
it seems sad and powerful,
sings songs and pslams to the sorrowful soul,
sung its song in the past of sorrow in all.

The poet's blood flows like champaign
on a wedding day of...

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OLD TIME NEIGHBORHOOD  (1934)

Reborn a wrinkled old child
Inhaling the smell of budget
Walking those cracked    skated-on sidewalks
Old trees    with grainy    knothole eyes
    standing...

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Way down low under the roots of the wild fern bush trees
There is an elfin village name of O’Brien Cee Threes.
Human giants do not know of this village way down low.
We are hidden under violets...

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Her apartment house was shaped like a tall woman’s boot.
I could see why she chose to live there, it did in fact suit.
Her disposition, her opinions, her ideals and her attitude.
Being inside with her, reading,...

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