Long Bottleneck Poems

I cried: Dragon I beseech Thee… Not to tempt me with your crazy ways!
Yet here I am, always… again… caught in your vortex every, single day.
Now he wants a statue, made in his own image...

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I cannot focus on the focal point to equivocal, the pain in my memory, to memorial site. The night smells gunpowder in the middle galaxy to summon the smart, south to Saturn where I rest...

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The town that I was born in was a small and ‘one horse’ place,
where no one held a secret and we knew each other’s face.
Nothing seemed to ever change but then we seen the myth...

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Here it is again
That sudden uneasiness
The alarms are going off in my body
My heart begins to pound
The blood rushes to my head
I can't think clearly
My mind starts to crave safety from something...
In my mind I...

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    There sat in opulent xanadu, the 
 demagogue of empirical hedonism, 
his granary once fuelled regal reign of epicureanism:

gregarious, restive, much-awaited successor of imperial dominion, 
neurotic, obstinate, was the cynosure of...

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IT HUNG IN THE SMOKEHOUSE FOR YEARS ON END,
JUST AN OLD BLACK COAT THAT NO ONE WOULD MEND.
THE LAST ONE TO WEAR IT WORE IT IN DEATH,
HE HAD IT ON WHEN HE BREATHED HIS LAST...

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don't be afraid to be foolish and stupid    (Heroditus)

When I first met her
     I knew there was something
     she gave me

   ...

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wobbling
    anecdotal
         narrative
             conspicuously
        ...

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Traffic lights flash, but we're far from light
Heavy flow on streets, emotions flow tight
Horns blare a symphony, tempers blare too
We're all packed in, feeling blue

Drive me crazy, this gridlock scene
Drive a hard bargain, just to...

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My reflection is too heavy to bear 
alone, it’s easier to look at myself and my failures
through the amber liquid, tears
through my system, warm and sure.         

You...

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It's a cool measure of our ex'd life blood low
family volume keeping the venous-return and arterial
alert-compressive, but youth manical-down
deep fried effervescence continuance abliss
smooth blowburn alive-high frequency antedote
fevered pitch-a  mellow deed
digestive cornerstone just picked, uncanned
cloud...

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It's a cool  mesure of life blood low
keeping the venous vacant return and arterial alert
               compressive but maniacal
down  ...

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Grains of sand, begin to stream in steady flow,
As the hour glass is flipped over.
One by one, they fall, through the bottleneck.
Each one a moment, a tick, tick, tock, soft and brief.
On top, the grains...

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You smile at a distance,
Honesty hidden behind your teeth,
Tongue poised to reminisce,
Of linen floors and bed-sheets,
I can't remember,
How your hand felt in mine,
Memory locked in December,
When our fingers intertwined,
A nostalgic misfortune,
Cheap stuffed bear excavated by...

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Trembling hands succumb to the pain,
A mushy exhibition of veins seeping through.

Nerves pricking the insides of the brain,
Never known a condition like it to be true.

Probably a bottleneck to my work,
Worms tangling around in the...

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Quick to forget the Off-Duty Grant
That makes bosses not rant
Easily treating An Observer,
To a levity of A Grieving Server
All stops are boldly pulled out
Like irritable errors struck out,
All restrictions kicked aside
Or left to their time...

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Crime wave, crime pays
Crime goes on all day
But its not a crime to 
feel the way i feel
Say the things I say
I stole your bike 
cause had built in getaway
I stole your wife bewcause
She said...

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With the advancement of age
Man starts to think about marriage

The boy and the girl are nubile.
It's high time to change the living style

Through the union of husband and wife
Marriage brings stability in life.

Being the foundation...

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Announcement from Congress
By Franklin Price
4/1/2017

Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye
We've come to you today
To announce a change in Washington
To begin the first of May

We the seated members
Of the Legislative here
Have agreed to work together
To make...

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i o u
by Michael R. Burch

i might have said it
but i didn’t

u might have noticed
but u wouldn’t

we might have been us
but we couldn’t

u might respond
but probably shouldn’t

Keywords/Tags: Impasse, Defeat, Alienation, Divorce, Break Up, Breaking Up,...

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You want a moment
To take a breath
I said I’d wait for you
But you up and left

I’m back to chasing shadows
Running from the light
Can’t stop the bleeding
It’s a product of oversight 

If the pieces break
Can you...

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Oh how I wish I were in that position.
If I was picked by John Beresford Tipton
to be granted a one million dollar check.
Can reality get past the bottleneck
of an imaginary situation?
Is there such altruism in...

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