Long Broom handle Poems

Kindly stick to digging pineapples in the future as magic dust particles can really only spring up in defense patterns. And is it really wise to deal cards in a high tide. Deliver not an...

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Have you ever had a major itch
Deep inside your brain
Where your whole face does a Chubby Checkers twist
Driving you erratically down crazy lane

You need to find that special something 
To cram far enough up your...

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The customs men shake their heads
and watch the women enter Mexico.
Three with skirts, white socks,
one with jeans 
and proper blouse.
Seventeen, eighteen
just out of Concord Academy
in a black Packard Super Clipper,
not quite as big as a...

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Here are some fun things that happened
On that classic Candid Camera show
A man walked backwards on a sidewalk
People copied him, wouldn't you know?

A man wearing only tighty whiteys
Asked the hotel clerk for a room
A street...

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Flexagility
I can bend at the waist, put my head between knees
See what’s in my back pocket and do that with ease
I can cris-cross my legs and then walk on my hands
I can stand on a...

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Kids of different
nationalities gather
every day to play 
in the streets of Chicago 
once their daily chores are done.

They play with marbles,
scummy top, pitching pennies,
or a rambunctious 
game of stickball in the old 
neighborhood cobblestone streets.

Children...

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Sometimes I just want to write a poem for myself.
Myself is laughing, thinking I am being cute or funny.
I chase her into a closet and put a broom handle against the door.
That will show her...

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The broom handle 
         came down swift.
Bruise bumps 
          rising on my skin
    Without ...

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Red.
Yellow, brown, or orange. 
Leaves live comfortably.
At cider mills, and in backyards. 
Maple leaves. 
They are spiky, and boldly shaped. 
Into a leaf pile. 
They are dead, but not haunted.
They are yellow, brown, or orange....

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Blue Moon 

Super moon last night saw it from my terrace
18% brighter and 20% nearer a meteorologist  
On TV said…how dry can one get?

Huge, yellow and beautiful, so close I could 
touch it with...

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