Long Chlorinated Poems

"Small Mutinies"



So what if my point of view
is not that which wraps 
you in comfortably warm
fluffed-up silky 
cashmere blankets 
of insecure insincerity
simple scribbles 
bleating from the 
chirping crickets 
and frog croaking
symphonies 
muddying waters
cutting pristine lines...

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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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As the man on the roof, took two steps towards the edge, he was unexpectedly stopped by the sound of a bright and familiar voice, down below.
     "I thought you were...

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Your chlorinated water comes through colluded rusted pipes ;
your city taxes you to clean it up;
 your house is torn down so they can build a strip mall;
 they ridicule you and at the school...

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I envy my dog at times and for many reasons.

He eats and sleeps under my roof
yet never contributes a penny towards 
his upkeep or my devoted care,
and never lends a paw with housework.

His empty cans...

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It came this day
As I journeyed south
That I happened upon
An old man
Filling water bottles
From a small pond
Fed from water
That gushed from rocks
Half way up
A mountain

It must be special, I said
If you’re going to lug this...

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And this your gift/ For our bounty…

“Wake up to reality, 
nothing goes as planned in this accursed world”— Madara

Is it religious for a prayer mat to welcome a man 
who is saturated with his own...

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Ignore my friend, ignore
work, work, work, hard,
40 hours to the corp,
20 hours to the family
and 40 to the drugs
you house is so nice
your car is better

40 to the corp
ignore the abuse,
slave labor in another country....
the...

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Parallel Universe
	
Two pools lie in Druid Hill Park.
One for the white skinned, the other for the dark.	
A high bed of grass grows were ebony feet splashed and kicked and paddled.
Each blade of grass is a...

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Far away by the oceanside  I sit and watch the seagulls fly
inside a pale orange sun that has yet to warm a reposing sand
Over by the boardwalk the air still hums of yesterday's feet
two...

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It's not the cup but the coffee within.
Arabica beans, fair trade
organic and shade grown
often from a woman's cooperative in Peru
then roasted in small batches
by a local roaster.
I like mine dark  
but my wife likes...

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I was a happy little water droplet
Playing in a cloud
Until lightning struck 
And thunder clapped loud
Stopping all my mirth
Dropping me to earth

Joining many others
Of my sisters and brothers
Bobbing wild and rampant
In a surging torrent
Towards a...

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There are few things so inspirational
As my morning caffeine and constitutional

Pushing chlorinated water or pavement behind
Puts a golden charge straight into my mind

That talk to text feature is my salvation
To throw down verse while in...

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They say drowning is a peaceful death once you commit to it. Anticipating your next breath, knowing that you will be breathing in water is probably an unnatural feeling. Having your leg chained to the...

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How quickly things can change ...

I withdrew my hand slowly from the water
(the aqua-blue tiled bottom of the chlorinated pool
stark contrast to the black and yellow body of the bee)
slowly enough that the bug wouldn't...

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If someone handed you a box with everything in it that you had ever lost
what is the first thing you would look for? 


Holiest of things that I could never recapture
like the feel of dad's...

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