Long Buzz saw Poems

* This is about a scene from Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" *

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so ...

that's it, then ...
it's done -
he's dead ... quiet...

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Burning the hay day’s flurry’s from club Sixty Eight                          ...

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There are secrets to be uncovered in the rain forest
Something mushrooming from a medicine tree.
What goes on in the woods, and Jungles? -
While we hustle -- bustle.

Pacing the pavement like ants...
Never to become one with...

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She had asked me to go buy a different colored wine
but as I knew wine, I knew what she wanted was a paler shade of red 
I remember her walking in the room a black...

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Dead glass pipes reproduced singing drops to pitter patter amid flesh. 
Flesh stretching between two flinching to open lids. 
Pale blue lips creasing blisters that welcomed warm breath. 
Dilation of hazel nut marbles caught the...

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How much lower could I go?
How much more could I take?
Hadn't I had my fill, 
my share
more than my share?
And you held my head underneath
the water in the wooden trough
you, gestapo god
and by christ
you did...

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Gemini born, an obvious air sign, 
She loved the breezes, the more brisk the better
They brought butterflies, dragonflies and damsel flies
Didn’t they?

She liked nothing better than to lie in the grass
While little ants creeped up...

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It was said
that he had overlarge hands,
laborer's hands,
yet when he played
eagles swam up waterfalls.

No one knew where the music came from
or the dexterity of those thick fingers.
Slavic ghosts would weave and spin all night
getting those...

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THE AMAZING BLACK WALNUT
High in the tree, Daddy shook a branch
to make them fall 
don't let them hit your head.
An outer shell,
green halfway to the pit
as time would turn it black
after their fall.

Our gunny sacks...

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Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria
siblings all conceived off the coast of Africa
buzz saw wind family who are quite dysfunctional
bully cyclones who like to hover over land and pummel,

The oldest siblings wrecking various parts of the...

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Their fussing over nesting material.
One sparrow has a lot to say
the other just shuffles her butt feathers.

The sun has got itself snagged like a balloon
on a high twiggy branch.
Foliage rustles where bushy tails whisk.

Some guy...

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A buzz-saw wind
peppers a far horizon.
We hear the nails falling
from an impossible distance.

Damage will be done elsewhere;
instinct squeezes a grey glue
out of blind brains.
A razor-teethed storm
is coming.

We share this piddling dread
with puddle dancing sparrows,
they suspect,
we...

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I don’t take a buzz saw up a tree, no never,
I take a hand saw, it’s safer;
and it’s clear, right up to the sighs of the
intense, crafty-blue sky; 
no pressing customers, no G-men, 
no pressured...

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Suicide skeins slick scarred black leather,
bucket seat brains link rust mangled chains,
power-chord blood spattered buzz-saw stains;
catwalk drains Christ dust bled religion,
collision ghost trains, twisted carnage contains
Lucifer’s wings wrapping rotting remains.

Homicide crows wearing sleeves of death...

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