Long Cellphone Poems

Fulfilled fantasies and legitimate realities…you do know how to please…
Are you listening to my voice of longing and yearning?
No, don’t backstab me with your broken promises…stop being a horrid tease…
Do not worry, Lord, I am...

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Now the sun and the sand were treacherously hot
    and not a place for Man or a Beast.
As you must be audaciously quick to find a good spot
    or...

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Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out a small national magazine....

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Consuming happiness to the point of no return, no return
I let the fires in my bosom burn on and on and on
Resuming on with my gladness, smiling — now, it’s your turn
To shine on like...

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Polly's jaw dropped. "The baby?
Damian's son. Well we're is he?"
Molly laughed. She had it bad for
Damian and she was engaged
To James.
"He's in the room. Damian and 
Dolly are on a date so he 
Dropped him...

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Once upon a time a gymnast teacher told a girl, 
and all her classmates, 
to gather round 
to spot the student currently bouncing 
on the trampoline. 

They circled 
to volunteer a ring of imperfectly rhythmed
but...

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Love shouldn’t hurt, I’ve heard it many times before.
If they truly love you, your feelings they won’t ignore.
When you find someone you think really loves you,
you’re not seeing the red flags; you have no clue.
He...

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Eastern stars light our responsibility
to ease ridiculously democratic suffering of Other.
Western horizons speak not of suffering
much less death as inevitable failure.

Dark horizons speak of pain,
and how to avoid it through Other as ourselves.

Eastern lights speak...

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I had my plan memorized, 
and I picked the right time.
I walked into the bank 
when there was no line.
I walked up to the teller 
and presented a note.
She hadn’t lived my life, 
you see,...

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Go ahead and spin the epic wheel of fortune 
Figure out the mysteries behind our misfortune 
Play songs in repeat, for I have memorized the tune
We will see each other in the afternoon real soon

You...

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Reflections haunt me,
Mortifying me…longing to be free…
Drifting away
Go ahead and throw up your explanation points!!
Raise your voice at me again
Give me all you got
Get me something I forgot…

Frustrated to say the least
Your words, they’re not...

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I was in the dumps; but as of right this instant, I'm flabbergasted by my brother's random actions and my weird interactions to be exact...great - messages have stimulated my phone...

Zzzzzzz the buzz was coming...

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Melodies of melancholy
Tries to make me unhappy
Surreal serenity frees me
Reminiscences of radiance sparkles with glee
Hope is in store to the core
You're the loving friend that I simply adore
My resonated face 
Seeks out your grace
My mind's...

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SPIDER

Eight furry legs
Approaching black blob
Screeeeeeeeeeeeeech


COCKROACH

Periplaneta americana 
Out of planet, preys on women's tuxedo
Blob of fat, smell, monster


JULIA'S HAIR

Chameleon
Gunslinger, sniper
Death,myriologue


O SPACE

A junkyard
Sepulcher of machines
Requiem

CROW

Squawk 
Squawk
Gasconade 


LIZARD

A baby lizard
Drops on my hand
Check in


TELEPHONE BILL

Krinngggggggggggggg
Krinngggggggggggggg
Pay your bill today...

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twelve miles of useless... road 
if you want to call it that
so washed out, rutted, and rocky that
usually you drive around it
three beers to go such a tiny distance
hay meadows across the creek 
always teaming...

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Things I need to stop for:
deodorant, candy bars,
some magazines,
to while away the hours..

Have to catch the train in time,
as it's a long trip north.
With no one to keep me company,
my tongue's going to rot.

On my...

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TRIBUTE TO AMAZING FAMILY!

Please allow me to honor my certificate - Its longest "Watsapp Post" etiquette...
To praise our Allah for His Kindness, Mercy & such Amazing Graces... 
For endowing us with such visionary, wise, &...

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As Olive Spectrum lay on the floor at Club Envy with her lungs burning and filling up with blood from being shot by an unknown person.  She thought her life would never end like...

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Edith had been suffering from shoulder pain
She'd developed a stoop and only her left shoulder would sag
When she went to see her doctor
He put all the blame on her weighty handbag

One afternoon she had time...

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JESUS CHRIST CAN ONLY BE WHO "GOD" SAYS HE IS.WHAT DO YOU THINK? FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN "SON" THAT WHO SO EVER BELIEVE UPON HIM WILL NOT...

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As Kenya lay on the floor at Club Envy with her lungs burning and filling up with blood from being shot by an unknown person she thought her life would never end like this.  Kenya's tears...

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This is for the love…                              ...

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Rippling, rippling
Like a river flows
Like a river stone
Ricocheting, ricocheting
Like a ball goes
Time stands on its own

That’s how it goes
That’s how it goes...
Oooh ohhh oooh
Oooh ohhh oooh
That’s how it goes
That’s how it goes

We’re rippling, rippling
Like a...

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No-one knows precisely when the rivalry began; 
thirty-two the legend goes; eighteen or nineteen?
It's not clear, nor can it be confirmed.

Apart from once in fifty-nine
For reasons lost in time;
The Fresno Fuzzy Socks
And The Chattahoochee Crocs
Have...

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Whipping out his cellphone Malik dailed 
Mecca's number.  "Hello Mecca COME TO
MY APARTMENT RIGHT NOW! THERE'S NO
TIME FOR TALKING GET HERE NOW!"  ending 
his call and dailing another number.  "Hey 
Phil I...

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