Long Cassettes Poems

As I empty a bag and look over the donations in it
I think, “Geezus why; not even I would willingly take any of this!
If I didn’t work here taking donations, I’d throw it all in...

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We all think that when we were young 
The sun shone for 23 hours a day
Not altogether true
But it seems that way in hindsight
But things always look better looking back
They were more innocent times
More naïve...

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she is everything you have seen in the movies
crayola hair
velvet dress
sugar in her veins
tears glued to her face
she fingerpaints the kitchen walls like a little girl and tapes their polaroids to every surface

he is every...

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Back in my day shell suits were the latest fashion 
And I made sure I wore my diamond socks with a passion 
The only sky I knew was the one up above my head 
No...

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In the beginning there was a word
Which was I, so I couldn't be alone
So I flied, reminiscing about those days with boom box's
and listening to slow jams, 
Dancing to tunes oh the beauty in that...

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I grew up in Bath in the nineteen nineties
wearing short shorts over tighty whities,
while Bath were champions of English Rugby,
a beautiful city farfetched from ugly.

We played on Stilts and had Yo-Yo's,
skateboards with logo's,  
Tamagotchi's,...

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We’ve all been young dumb 
and unaware so has everyone, 
we too were the first generation 
growing up with tech others hadn’t 

I was born last century so to kids I’m old 
Born the same...

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Hyperthermia can be caused by standing in slip streams in sluice dumps. It never really fails if ice water can run a lake from a rusted tap. And the mid morning broken by the drip...

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4/27/17

Whether in the North, East, South, or West
On any side of the fence
Things can go from calm to intense
Near and far from incense
On a planet that is immense
Better always use common sense
While events continue to...

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16-inch records
8 track tapes
cassettes and Cd'
The sound of music played
on my high-fi recording machine
I was 6 years old
listening to Aeron Nevel
'Siting on the Dock of the Bay'
played Marvin Gaye
could sing every word
'Let's get it on'
was...

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Dirty shoes torn into pieces, against a shiny floor.
No more streets, a perfect house she’d learn to adore.
Someone to take her in, when her light is fading.
If she was to escape the dark, it’d take...

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6/8/17


A world full of different colors and shapes
As well as apes
Locations that do or don't sell crepes
Vines with or without grapes
Houses with dark or light drapes
That do or don't have cassettes and video tapes
Near and...

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"Ready"
"Aim"
"Fire!"
The flight of the kill begins,
Felt the darting pain of silver bullets never to be captive by the len's sight.
"Why? Won't he die! No!"
Ammunition silence melt to 'the never could,'
Screaming in defeat in this inner...

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Sometimes I can't believe it
It all happened so fast
Real life is truly here
Just who is that looking at me in the mirror?
How come these bills are addressed to my name?
It's like I went to sleep...

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What can you save when you go the grave?
The answer, my friend’s, not a thing,
Yet the way we behave (and so few of us cave)
Is to add to mementos and cling.

The clothes out of style...

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Do you think I’ll ever be 
able to smile again
(I just don’t know)
I’m losing it all within
(To where do I go)
When I’m out of my skin 

I was breathing this morning
Red bricks, green leaves
I showered...

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I am Farrah Fawcett,
Poster on the wall. 
  I am a rotary phone,
When I made a call. 

   I am, Boss,
it’s the plane, The plane. 
   I am Pablo Escobar,
And...

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A 'Good Old Days Market' sign seen
With arrows that point to the scene;
     There hidden by wall
     Of stone, very tall,
I ventured and found behind screen,

Some tables...

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Take me back to when
The only price I had to pay
For drinking piss warm beer
Was all I had to fear
Where the clear and present yards 
Made yesterday seem simple 
Like popping pimples and emphasizing my...

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A northern lover turned bitter;
the greatest disappearing act; laden w/ tact. 
I have always lacked what it took to make you stay.

A northern lover in the winter;
How my skin cracks
and the ocean seems so far...

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Greeting cards and broken toys
And yo-yos missing strings
Were among the items ditched
With lots of other things.

Marble notebooks filled with math,
A horn that lost its toot;
Bags and bags of memories
All tossed right down the chute.

I’d emptied...

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Mr Two step in the name of fame
I regret putting a foot onto your set 
I should not of accept all the abuse and lies
That came with fame
Hearing your name only makes me upset and...

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We’ve introduced our grandkids
To the music we adore – 
That’s classical or rock & roll;
They always ask for more.

For Henry’s coming birthday,
I procured a perfect book – 
An intro to the orchestra;
A CD was the...

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Mentoring a talent, gifted and mature, way beyond her years
Anchoring a show, on television, serenely she appears.
Narrates the story of Mirabai, I sadly missed the premier
Audio cassettes get released, by an accomplished career.
So very beautiful,...

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Fall asleep 
When back to dream land,
Its a hard life...
A life with no rules, it's fun though!
Can't wake up:
nothing but deep dreams and nightmares,
Slopes and pinnacle pins
Chosen kings and jealous men,
O malady... It's a strange...

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