Long Burbs Poems

Ask if we'll ever see the end of wars and you're bound to hear,
that it will never happen, not in a thousand years.
I hear you loud and clear, but I just don't accept it.
For someone...

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I’m feeling that feeling
I felt in the beginning 
Times flying by 
my minds still spinning
I think I’m losing ground
And my patience is thinning
Getting tangled up in 
the webs Life’s spinning 
Further from where I’ve been...

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*Edited for Length and Content*

Remember that I loved you
while we went riding 
through the ‘burbs, 
looking at houses we couldn’t afford, 
caught up in your naivety 
so you gave me your word,
dumped you for the...

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Sand in sheets
scuffing skin and reminding 
last nights attire reaks like bonfire
 a hundred days like this 
   a sea of endless laughs rolling 
     like filmreels infinitely looped...

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You hold my hand
Tears stream, a warm compress placed upon my pale face
Increasing pain, so much fear my heart begins to race
Curled in my own bed
Trying to wrap this absurdity around my aching head
For just...

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8/27/16



Just had shrimp and grits
Beside scrambled eggs whipped up with a whisk

Been a long time since
I've had some fish and chips


Went on many different trips
Some of which
Were on ships
And others were above waterfalls and cliffs

Back...

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A dear friend says I'm brave to go it solo in the city…
she has a husband - seven kids - two dogs - and a neurotic cat
        yet...

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each thing living on
Murdth ‘sorbs water chiefly wet
backards of arid-
zona an’ the holmby hills’ 
chlorine romp ponds drawing the

scant as blue blood for
the thirsty altar as a
mercedes to the
mccam bridge carwash on
la cienega for the...

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most would say that a suffocating feeling
would be produced by being squashed in a small place
for a long time &
thus the metaphor would make sense 
when speaking of the city
where so many people live side...

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A BEAUTY BORN OF THE ‘BURBS

I showed her the steamier and seedier side 
A place where the desperate have tried, cried and died
Young Ms. Suburbs took to it’s derelict charm
As we’d stroll downtown with arms...

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A BEAUTY BORN OF THE ‘BURBS

I showed her the steamier and seedy side 
A place where the desperate have tried, cried and died
Young Ms. Suburbs took to it’s derelict charm
As we’d stroll downtown with arms...

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When I think about
what it was like
playing in the snow as a kid, 
I recall that cold
icy blanket crisp-crunching 
beneath my big boots.
Mom would bundle me up
in my immobile snowsuit
as if there were tigers in...

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A BEAUTY BORN OF THE ‘BURBS

I showed her the steamier and seedy side 
A place where the desperate have tried, cried and died
Young Ms. Suburbs took to it’s derelict charm
As we’d stroll downtown with arms...

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A BEAUTY BORN OF THE ‘BURBS

I showed her the steamier and seedy side 
A place where the desperate have tried, cried and died
Young Ms. Suburbs took to it’s derelict charm
As we’d stroll downtown with arms...

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A BEAUTY BORN OF THE ‘BURBS

I showed her the steamier and seedier side 
A place where the desperate have tried, cried and died
Young Ms. Suburbs took to it’s derelict charm
As we’d stroll downtown with arms...

Read More

A BEAUTY BORN OF THE ‘BURBS

I showed her the steamier and seedy side 
A place where the desperate have tried, cried and died
Young Ms. Suburbs took to it’s derelict charm
As we’d stroll downtown with arms...

Read More

A BEAUTY BORN OF THE ‘BURBS

I showed her the steamier and seedy side 
A place where the desperate have tried, cried and died
Young Ms. Suburbs took to it’s derelict charm
As we’d stroll downtown with arms...

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Spent some time today amongst the beautiful people

In the downtown area of the big city

Everybody rushing about oblivious to their surroundings

Intent on doing what they set out to do

Alone in their own little world

Unaware of...

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I pick up their idle chatter five days of the week.
Conversation with other passengers, I never seek
to learn of a secret one of them might privately leak.
But try as I might, I cannot help but...

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What Goes Around

Coming out of the all-night Adult Fantasy Store
Secrets in the bag in my hand,
A young black man crossed the street,
Hailing me to wait, before I drove off.
I waited.

In civil tones he told me...

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If I were a tree...
I’d be a burley redwood in a western forest,
Or a tall sequoia fully grown.
Might be a stately elm among the lesser timber,
Or a sturdy oak as tough as stone.
But always prone...

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Barbie, Atari, He-man 
Batman, She-Ra, Ronald Reagan
Indiana Jones, and landline phones
The Dark Crystal and around 5.2 billion people 
Andre the Giant’s Honeycomb commercial 
Rainbow Brite, Jem, and Rose Petal 
Welcome to the Jungle, Cheers! Metal...

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I wrote this one after watching the miniseries “The Pacific.”

THE BURBS AREN’T SCARY AT ALL

Scarier the skeletons sitting in the suburbs
or the ones being dug out of graves…
the ones in the foxhole,
that you must brave.
It’s...

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down comforter
down under 
under the covers
under the bed
bed the man
bed room
room for more
room for rent
rent a u haul
rent a house
house in the burbs
house of the damned
damned foolish
damned lonely
lonely lingerers
lonely nights
nights in white satin
nights without end
end...

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Growing up in the inner city I've met Magic,  Jordan, Bill Gates and President Obama.
The intellectuals breed but the opportunities are near exstinct in these mean streets.
If it's not bling bling then it's bang...

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