Long Clunking Poems

'Twas the night before Christmas
when I and my groom
finally found a motel 
but with just one room.

My groom was in the bathroom -
leaving me alone-
so that he could douse himself 
with some cheap cologne.

I -...

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I am pretending to be normal today. I have been doing it for two hours.
Sitting here, waiting for this side of me to be discovered by Joe, my first and last husband.
He walked through once...

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Life charges up and down hills so fast
One day you are biting your cousin
And they are laughing because you are two.
But not your cousin of course.

In a blink of a wild flower,
you are clunking around...

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A week of summer heat
with no cooling breeze
or break made bedrooms 
like brick kilns 
still hot after a day's firing.
You couldn't sleep.
Air conditioning back then
was a couple of loud,
clunking fans that blew
a hum of hot...

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Press your eyes with 
The strength of the
Index and the ring finger. 

What do you see? 
See the shifting orbs of luminescent aqua, 
Starry-eyed fireflies wafting in a 
majestic, arrested stasis.

See the fabled constellations 
Form...

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The ordinary toothpick fills the needs of mankind
With a pick, pick, here, and a pick, pick there.

A little piece of stick with no holes, handles
Cords, plugs, tops, bottoms, insides, or batteries.

You little piece of stick,...

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The moonlight shines perfectly on a town.
The sounds of Halloween are whistling by. 
When you look closer you will see orange and purple lights on houses.
Blow up ghosts or ghouls sitting on top of the...

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He takes the largest ladle he can find
And stirs them around and around
clunking their heads together
Scrambling their brains, 
Making them angry
And he laughs

He is the sorcerer of the moment
popular with his followers
who revere him
because of...

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Sea Life 

What I see is not very much, a Formica table 
greasy plying cards and dirty finger nails.
It is like being stuck in a deep valley between 
green waves; tomorrow will be the same...

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The night was dark, in the park when I heard a bark

then a ringing bell, blood curdling yell straight from Hell

A loud clunking sound from the ground had me spellbound

by the ploys of the noise,...

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A TV. Star. 

The man hiding in the light his persona, sparkling
sunglasses not enough when we gloried in his 
mesmerizing peculiarity. We saw not the sinister
black shadows behind him… except, from time to 
time we...

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