Long Bummed Poems

Verse 1: We held hands and I fell under your spell...you are the hell from above
My heart has turned to ashes, but I rose again like a Phoenix because of you and I's love
I bled...

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“Through me you enter the city of woe
Trough me you enter the eternal pain
Through me you go to people lost below.

Justice inspired my highest factor reign;
I was created by act of divine,
Supreme wisdom and the...

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Sun and traffic - day economy.
Six a.m. drive to plywood mill. Too tired
to be angry. Each day a step
toward death. What is being accomplished? The
small satisfactions
within each day. Book consciously read.
And frustrations. Package dropped, honey...

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“Who was that?” my wife inquired, as I hung up the phone. “And what was that you said about a bar?”
“That was Duncan Taylor, hon.    A darn good friend of mine. ...

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Dark Side of the Sixties

peace brother hey man i just scored some bennies it’s really far out i’m speedin like a mother wanna buy some you won’t get busted i know this cat who’s tight...

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Hurriedly enroute to her royal majesty
porcelain goddess throne
whereupon earlier today
March 28th, 2022,
after incomplete defecation
sitting pretty on pissoir,
I jiggled and wiggled posterior

(analogous to performing
the bum bared hustle)
until gasping for breath
though unable to shake loose
dangling dingleberry yours...

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I’d slept quite well the night before, the sky was clear and sunny, when - glancing out my kitchen window, keen to read the gauge -
I was bummed, but not surprised, to find that it...

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I Wanted To ‘Get Away’   
By Curtis Johnson

Without naming the company, one of my favorite commercials use to be the one featuring ‘embarrassing moments' and closing with the question, “Wanna get away”? ...

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My Super Power Is Contest
Sponsor: Lewis Raynes


I have many powers handed down from generations,
   My father gifted me many obscure competent abilities,
      My favorite power is the capability...

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[ Form - Rap ]

( "Love's Survival" is a paucity. The proper dress is ice-skates and blind-folds. - © 1998 - R.W. )


what to do about Plato of late
the Greeks convinced

and about Pluto
lost planet status

he-haw...

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Subject: BUS STOP CRAZIES   Today at 3:37 pm      

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BUS STOP CRAZIES 
BUS STOP CRAZIES 

Glitter My Words 
First one: a man rolled a cigarette using a bummed...

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Anal lies zing constipation
     nothing to poo poo about,
cuz when bedeviled by
     colorectal obstruction 
     without wasted doubt,
that malodorous, 
   ...

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"HAPPY PEOPLE NEED SUN"


it was supposed to rain today          
but it didn't.
the sun had no movement,
it was still, 
it was dead.
the woman in my room
had no...

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Now I’m forced to see
repressed memories 
friends, enemies 
troubles I free 
again feeling me, 
who I used to be, 
finally, finally
I’m breathing as he,
I’m back to being me.

Too much 
too fast 
and I did perish
Though...

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seems like ole man winter
     aint finished doing business
whereat get dem self up
     in fine fetters and cuss
madly jabbing, gesticulating,
     and damning e...

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Oh, you’re cool. Deck.
With your battered copy of Naked Lunch
tucked away in your thrift-store
		-satchel, it’s definitely a satchel-
that holds your cigarettes,
the ones you bummed last Wednesday,
and the extra scarf you keep with you
	at all times
just...

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Let me rap to you about where I'm from.
Sidewalks are broken, weeds grow through the cracks.
The people that use them are like the sidewalks,
broken and bummed out.

They have handles like Turkey, Louie the Bum, Sand...

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more than a fetish for words
some of us breathe in the scent of language
as if it was the last leg of 
sustenance before the final blow
that will take us all out to
send us spiraling downward...

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I was trying to sell my 1990 Buick Reatta 
To a friend of mine, Jones, who had only one daught’a.

It was for her to drive to school, 
And we were meeting in Albuquerque which was...

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Yepper-doddle, today I’ll use my own noddle.         
My prized antique frame sustained a despised bust.    
Wanting to show my man the tough dough in...

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" I'm a bum,"  he said
on a hazy evening.
Standing on the corner
of East Carson Street,
South Side of Pittsburgh.

" Everyone has the potential
for genius!"

His words echo of the cracked
conglomerate of sidewalks
bearing the daily burden of...

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I've tried my very best
to be your loving wife,
be there when you needed me
but now, my days are filled with strife.

Sometimes I question my existence
why am I even on this world?
For years now, I've loved...

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I went and placed a wanted ad
Inside my local discount rag
Hoping someone somewhere might have
Some new words they could send my way

I've started feeling slightly bummed
Using the same old worn out ones
To me they are...

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hey
how you doing
I know I know  
I was gonna call
ahh just busy at the lab
ya things are cool
what
it SUCKs
I hate the snow
I can't wait for spring
morel mushrooms and oysters
Noo I haven't seen him for...

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I remember the days when
I ran around care free 
Did fun crazy thing 
All cuase someone dared me

I remember those days
Weren't they the times
As a kid it was fun
Running a muck until night 

Do you...

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