Long Blowtorch Poems

My mind was once tranquil lavender...
an equal blend of blue and red.
Sometimes a tone darker or lighter
depending upon the issue at hand-
Recently its blooming only one color.
Because I've been told over and over.
To shut up-to...

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Confessions of Pistachio Pudding

The pudding said to the whipped cream 
"I love the way you feel on top of me... 
all light and sugary...but I have a confession 
I was not always a bowl of...

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Note to the many enemies of democracy:
No need to force upon us uranium enemas 
just billow a tiny bug into the neon lungs
of our bumbling- deeply divided cities..
Sit back and have a few Molotov cocktail...

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We've many differences.
You yearn for and demand respect.
I prefer to earn it but could care less...
if you respect me or not.
You shove a bullhorn in my face.
Force feed me your warped points of view.
You put...

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He was calling her who was calling him who had been 
thinking about her who had been thinking about him who 
wanted to maybe have dinner with her who had picked a 
cozy little restaurant...

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From predawn birth, you dwell alone,
Preferring deep shadowland over light.
So much easier to conceal what is shown,
Nascent ember forelimbs that daunt your sight.

With growth in undying murk, and wings in flames
In brilliant reds, yellows, golds...

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A short letter to this Hot Summer Day, 
I get it, you’re a furnace from the sky.
And you want to play chef, to bake and to stew, 
Both my feet you simmer and fry

You battered...

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They love to puff the beryl nicotine

Incendiary lungs
sucking down the cancerous green

Hard drag queens,
dressed to mass extinct kill,
inhale poisonous mushroom dreams

Napalm verbal smoke:
fungi promises coming out of plastic windpipes
Pinocchio nose choke
pollute the global atmosphere with...

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Savagery of an act unspeakable, 
ransack of the flesh of innocence 
melts the petals of the rose 
with blowtorch breath of violation. 
The gallows groan, with guilt are ridden, 
turmoil grinds a mind of penitence,...

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Two inept crooks robbed my house while I was on vacation.
They left my water running and they died by strangulation.
Besides robbing me, those idiots also made me have to pay a two hundred dollar water...

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Nectarous taste would not surcease 
in torture now that’s my showpiece;
 
I sit in a hard chair pallid,
there’s solace in something solid; 

Give fine obeisance to the madness,
decayed memories savor sadness;

Such enmity in your answer,
the...

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In the rarest quiet of my mind
I think about you sweet Angel love...
the maelstrom of users and abusers 
that splashed your wings with blood.
Smeared coal dust under your pretty sad eyes
rusted out the final diamond...

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I always wanted to be cheese the blowtorch said.
The opossum thought this funny but had to play dead.
There was a brick of cheese wrapped in waxy red.
She stated that the blowtorch had a really fine...

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Don’t come in my house.
     Don’t come in my house without permission!
I got a machine gun, a machete, a meat cleaver, and a magnet.
     I will bear...

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