Long Bigs Poems

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.........................................INNOCENCE
..................................Oh!  it is so very asleep
.........................As we grow up the bliss that we seek 
....................To stay innocent blissfully innocent -As kids
...............My lovely world-  it conspires to keep me so clean
..........No cigarettes no porn...

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Tis quite a beast of burden to bear atlas (shrug off not allowed)
Atlas shrugged an impossibility
tantamount to skinny dipping in the lock nest lagoon

Tantamount to shrugging Atlas off mine bony, 
   ill suited,...

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I have a fond memory
of days spent on grandpa's farm
and helping grandma 
early in the morning we collected eggs
and fed the chickens and other littles
grandpa fed the cows, horses, pigs,
and a donkey and all...

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Imagine if the only non-destroyed manuscript in a thousand years are emojis and 
text shorthands?
The only printed missive left is what we write to each other on a social media site,
and a Thesaurus.  
Space...

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We have Cousins Camp in Kansas City in the summer.
Any grandchildren who cannot come, says, “That’s a bummer!”

One year I let four of the bigs fill a garbage can up with water.
Each jumped in their...

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Once upon a time,
There were three Little- Bigs
(They were short, but fat.)

They knew the hungry wolf
Would like to pick them up,
And maybe score some ham,

So the three Little-Bigs,
All went to different places,
To slim down their
Porky...

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The wind, ruthlessly, has long been scattering gold through the streets.
Tons and tons of gold.
The air, your hands, and your lips smell like roasted chestnuts.
The wind, ruthlessly, has long been blowing gold through the streets.
Tons...

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Take off your pharaoh’s mask, stay awhile.
Be not uppity for it does not suit you.
I like honesty, 
For who does not?

Throw off your walls – the little ones and the bigs.
Toss them aside, for they...

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