Long Chocks Poems

I am twenty-one.
It’s a hot, summer day in 1963.
I’m in Lubbock, Texas, at Reese Air Force Base
And I’m climbing the ladder into a supersonic T-38 jet.
The parachute strapped to my back is cumbersome.
I can feel...

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When i was little, i would have never dreamed at age 24 my heart would be so depressed i would choose death over breath, literally.. That my dreams would be filled with nothing but painful...

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An HP Production

[Quiet on the set--roll'em]

KEY: Cast: P)Pip, B)Bob, R)Reinier, A/M)Anna/Madam

P)Evil, not rats, live on, start squeaking,
B)Noose fill lips, spill life soon, start swinging,
R)Sorry, something in my eye,
B)One rat down! Winning am I,
P)Bob, your persona...

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Smoking, choking, back slapping bloking,
false bonhomie in the dawns grey light.
Coffee drinking, tired eyes blinking,
rimmed red from lack of sleep that night.

Nervous twitching, raw skin itching,
pacing the floor, one more cigarette.
Knowing glances, some in trances,
eyes...

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Birthday Wishes
Penning to send myself birthday wishes
My muse flew off alike airborne kisses
Seventy three this month but to dismay 
My mind grows foggier each passing day . . .

Gave hubby my birthday present wishes
Can’t say...

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Mama if you love me please don't cut the cord
Don't separate me from your world
And cast me into this wicked earth
Look at the hills of Longonot
Do you see ice capping 
All I see is fire...

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Sometimes we say things and hope God would do the opposite
Sometimes we say things out of anger
Sometimes we lost it and completely lost our head
But can we push God away?
The answer is no
God is not...

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Lawn Mowers

Grandpa bought old junk, 
and then he made it better. 
He worked all day, 
every day... 
in the hot sun. 
The man
never
complained. 

I spent every summer, 
just this side of Hades,
learning all about life....

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How long will I have to be here? 
I have been here since as long as I can remember 
Tried to move on 
But I am trapped to 
I am tied to you 
Fate and...

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Shes the fancy fighter;
Who won't get it through her head;
That in that world that she lives in
There's only quick or dead.

 He bobs and weaves and steps back
And he'll play the rope a dope;
He bangs...

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I'm perplexed! My breath chocks as Euterpe, Calliope,
Erato, Apollo, and modest Muses leading me
Through the refreshingly flooding streams of Antiope
To heavens, where I am, like an eagle, endlessly free

I can breathe here a frankincense-filled aromatic...

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I have a chest of smoke and a heart of ashes; 
I have a breath that chocks and liver that burns;
I have rolls of brown paper and an ashtray of choices 
These lungs are a...

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My son is coming home today
he's been away so long
when he left here to go away
We knew that he was strong

He told us he was leaving soon
his girlfriend had to cry
the bus took him away...

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My turds float like choc’late marshamallows
Just lurking about in the shallows
I guess that my butt
Is truly kaput
So doctor suggests bitter aloes

I questioned such treatment regime
Doc said it may keep my butt clean
Aloe on my finger
Won’t...

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