Long Chapman Poems

It might take a more comprehensive review
to explain why I thought it would make sense
to read
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anger:
Using DBT Mindfulness
and Emotion Regulation Skills to Manage Anger
(Chapman and Gratz)
AND
Evolutionary Enlightenment:
A New...

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Today, I Mourn slain Beatle John Lennon
assassinated at 10:50 PM,
on December 8, 1980
forty four years later to date
outside The Dakota Apartment,
(also known as the Dakota Apartments),
located at 1 West 72nd Street
in New York City, U.S.

After...

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by Max Burchett

As I was driving the usual way,
Out Chapman Road to start the day,
I saw him standing there.
I stopped and had to stare.

I was shocked to see
The face of someone I had seen,
Never in...

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(this is just a write and does not reflect my own beliefs. i believe in God and Heaven. however i believe in peace, love and hope. i believe in living as one. i hope this...

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On the day 
that John Lennon died, 
people were just going 
about their business 
as they did every day. 

Mark David Chapman 
was reading 
Catcher In The Rye 
void of his holy self.
 He would have had to 
Imagine there’s no heaven. 

John took the elevator 
down...

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I got it from watching my 60-year-old abuelo come home every night chingotiado from picking cilantro till his hands turned green and purple So that his children’s children could go to school in Tejas. It...

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Cain killed Abel on a Monday night 
Abel didn’t get a chance to put up much of a fight
Cain said, “am I my brother’s keeper?” God said, “yeah,” but Cain said, “nah”
Adam just shook his...

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It was a cold morning, but stubborn sunlight shone through dusty blinds on condensated windows. Their crystallised effect shimmered on decaying leaves of a dehydrated indoor plant. By chance, I caught his reflection in the...

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Now, ol’ Twister Tom he was quite a cowboy find—
A real rock hard cowpoke, though the question begged—
Some say that he was a legend in his own mind,
He’d a been six foot six if he...

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We commemorate the death of our love ones
We don't celebrate the death of our love ones
Today is not a great day
Today is a very sad day
We don't care about wealth, avarice, money and cupidity
We abhor...

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John Lennon, tragically shot dead 1980, 8th of December 
If you were a fan of his I`m sure you would REMEMBER 
Was Mark Chapman playing MIND GAMES, is that why? 
Or perhaps plain and simply...

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Kindheartedness

Ellen had a lot of experience in washing nappies, six bairns in less than eight years. William 
Chapman had a lot to answer for. Everyone knew, or thought they knew, what poor Ellen had 
to...

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HAPPY WOMAN DIVORCEE
{'answer back to Happy Man Divorcee'}

Now  listen here brother
You used to be my husband
But you spend more time,
With your boyz and your mother
Now it's too bad we couldn't
Make it till death do...

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Dedicated to the grandma I never met -  Irene Chapman

Breast cancer stole you away from mum
She was just eight years old when you died
Mum knew you were ill
She must have had a premonition
The day...

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They left her alone,
Standing,
Freezing in the down pour,
Just a summer vest and tan open toes,
She wasn't prepared for the way the world was about to go,

Lips blue,
Shakin all over like a junkie does,
She lives in...

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not as bad as when 
she drunk-posted Sand 
and Water by Beth 
Nielsen Chapman in honor 
of her uncle's passing 
forgetting it had a line 
in it about their child together 
which made it seem...

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The Sodom and Gomorrah, vault,
the legends so long past,
Lots wife looked back, got turned to salt,
Atomic was it asked?

The Indus valley, vitrified ,
it even melted clay,
a rod of iron, Atlantean kind,
birds all turned white they...

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*And then, I am finally free from house arrest 
- Which is better news for me than it is for you and your family*


...I am bloodletting
All of my frustration
With a wee-bit 
Of Danbert Nobacon...

...This is...

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Regarding fashion,Punk set out to gauge
The style of hair and clothes which would outrage.
John Lennon's voice was silenced at this time;
Mark Chapman was convicted for the crime.

A technical development unfurled
Which launched the first PC into...

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Babies galore, I tell my baby,
my youngest,
who’ve met these birthing-cousins.
Bouncing babies born
on the same day.
A boy, a girl - twinsies
and many miles away,
another boy - oh the joy!

My daughter says but
it’s been a sad day,...

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pick up the sword and feel the weight that crushed King George
and all his sins / cry out with rage kept deep inside /  did cast my soul across
the seas / fair Hadley, dark...

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In the morning, innocent lamb left the farm 
Behind his master, moved to the meadow
A treacherous chapman loomed him
In his purity, he listened to chap’s distorted words
As sweet as honey, they lead him astray his...

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Steady rustling of stacked-high newspapers,
On the vendors stand US skyscrapers;
A long face further parting with brightness:
The type that treated not things with lightness
It’s a man heading for a child’s mistake;
From last medical check-up much at...

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have you heard of or seen the Mongolian death worm?
has he spat venom your way or tried to electrocute you?
you need to travel to the Gobi desert, where he is.
in the 1950’s there were many...

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John Lennon is dead
The news was shared
Mark Chapman shot him in New York City
And we lost one of the Beatles such a pity

He shot him five times outside the Dakota Hotel
Used a Charter Arms 38...

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