Long Castor Poems

I
The beggar outside the supermarket
You swore was picked up later
In a flashy car
Sat there in the sun for 8 hours
While you pissed & moaned
All the way home
To your bookless
Mausoleum 
With a chlorinated pool
Where one day...

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Dog Star

The clarity with which youthful vision perceives the world
Is increasingly fogged by the successive days of life.
Simple magnanimity is replaced by complex reservation.
Knowledge is replaced by uncertainty.
Hope is replaced by the leaden awareness of...

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Grand Ma


Depending on a day’s mood-
Grand Ma my mind recalls;
Saint or Devil in the wood
For fast writ on the walls!!!

Ah! Lovely Devil was she
She’d catch you up the tree
Or acted a wise witty witch
Fishing you...

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Month December had brought paddy harvest too.        Father was busy in the field for harvesting.             ...

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Shyloch, Shyloch Ye of crippled writers block Howl !
Hipster!  
Survivor of sanatoriums drug riddled needled dreams and cancer lobotomy fantasies!
Drowned out by the apathy of X-Factor modernity!
Shyloch whose machinery sprite faster through chemical brewing!
And...

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while look into the seeing pot a great ball of fire appeared from out of the sky, it hit the nation once bless by Elohim, in given my calculations of this prophecy the year is...

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it was the night before christmas. and all in my house.everyone was sleeping 
even my pet mouse.i was laying in bead a grin on my face.waiting to here the 
yells and screams.he would make.the year...

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They sheared and washed until they uncovered clean rosy skin

‘That’s more like it now we don’t have to cope with the ultimate sin’

Being different was not acceptable but now the sheep shivered

And the flock had...

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Coral and lime stones
You can take the country out of me
However, not the trace of acid lime out of my blood
Growing up on the island has its advantages
Everybody was related to each other: and everyone...

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Once upon a time ,a farmer lived in a remote village                        ...

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Her name was Ethel....(yes, like the gasoline)
She smelled of menthol...(much like Vick's Vaseline)
A long time neighbor, from down the lane
She was married twice...(or was it thrice?)...
A widowed lady, we knew her well

A bit disgruntled, and...

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A poem based on the Greek pantheon:


Zeus The Philanderer

Zeus the philanderer, lust divine, 
Maidens fair he did entwine, 
By guileful means he won their trust, 
Bastard offspring born from his lust.

With swan's guise, Leda he...

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it was the night before Christmas. and all in my house. Everyone was sleeping 
even my pet mouse. The year before I was bad all year. I did not 
want much hardly nothing at all...

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She stands there, 
silently, 
as the khols
and taals
begin
to play.
If money had afforded, 
they would have found the
wrong chromosome.
Pat silk
Sitipati
Bangles
ornate
heads
fingers
feet
and she
begins
to sway.
Maatsya, 
the fish, 
life begins.
famished cries
unheeded, 
A crumpled woman, 
abandoned child.
Now she is the tortois
lifting...

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Many many moons ago
leaving the porch
of a south-facing canyon,
I hiked to a place 
where the foothills
narrowed,

Where the asphalt road
ran astride the reservoir lake
into which kingfishers
dived at will,  
and Great Horned owls
hooted at passerby,

And crickets...

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Feeding off the weary


Castor oil concubines in deep hip hugger moons
Shouting to the vestibule in torrents filled with rage
Voices shriek in rampant screams, off key to every tune
Changing up a photograph that sits along the...

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The phone rang but there was no-one there,
Her imagination flew like a balloon into the air.
“Who was that?”, she asked herself.” Who was that woman?”, she wondered.
As the sun sank behind a cloud she gathered...

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There's a place you pay
On these streets
And sometimes it's high
Like the cost  of dope
In order to kill whatever
That not right
Whatever that's deep in you
And cleans out what
Castor Oil only does inside
The body
But baby it...

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I hadn’t thought of him for years,
this miracle man of my youth.
The sleeping prophet, in dream state
who spoke such healing words of truth.

He’d been raised a simple farm boy.
Edgar Cayce (casey) was his real name.
Unlike...

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Remember when you used to say the words that I was stammering to let out?
What happened to us?
Remember when you knew what it meant when I just blinked?
Remember when you were my Bread and Egg;...

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It sat under the old Cottonwood tree in the shade
Before the house had "inside plumbing or running water"
Not the best, but all we had
Family owned and made
In the summer, it got a little hotter
Sometimes, you...

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BUDGERY JIM
About the 1880s Joe came to the Hebel area...
He passed by an Aboriginal camp...
Saw one sick man a lying there..
Bad food gave him the cramp..
Poisoned Joe thought, so they purged him..
castor oil in, to...

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BUDGERY JIM
About the 1880s Joe came to the Hebel area...
He passed by an Aboriginal camp...
Saw one sick man a lying there..
Bad food gave him the cramp..
Poisoned Joe thought, so they purged him..
castor oil in, to...

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Sometimes I want to suckle at your white breast
And drink your milk of delicious tenderness
While lips to lips embraced we tremble in the wind
Desire is nothing to be lost, love is all to win.

Sometimes I...

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Pillowed down stitched by
    loving hands, worn by
life's strenuous duty to protect,
dancing with patches of hope,

draped over gears polished,
    castor-oil tickling the
nose with the notion of fluid
motion, one spiky rung rests

upon a battered guitar-case
    riddled with stickers
of gracious...

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