Long Colic Poems

Various Heresies 5

Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch

July 7,2007 (7-7-7)

Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temples, your thinning hair.
Tonight, let's remember, and let us draw near...

Tonight,...

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Smelly Stuff Absorbed 

There are many words for those excrements that appear on the fabric in
incremental solid and deliquescent motions because ingestion fulfils that
autonomous need to shed ablutions but here I declare ‘Waste not Want...

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I stopped to stool siphon sip on a cool blue 
circumstance in the means between the in 
times loath listening to complacent
poetic prostitutional practice of stir my friends 
ego echoes doing the same f. u....

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Chorus:

Dakota Land was Indian land,
Dakota Land was free,
The white man came,
Now all that remain,
Are the reservations,
And the broken treaties.

Narration:

He stands alone, his head held high,
His eyes have dimmed with age. 
When days of yore pass...

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Round about nineteen 1971-2, yours truly bid adieu 
to Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School 
   (situated at crossroads – then beau
colic rural routes of Evansburg Road and Ridge Pike), where nary a clue
prevails...

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Pandemic pessimism 

There is no such thing as society.
Forgo forgiving, forget free lunch,
Just plates of debt and toxic punch.
First come first served, no us, just me
Seeking survival in celebrity.
Self serving, Kentucky Fried Credit Crunch.
My savings...

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What until today humans do HAVE,
That the First Couple on EARTH
Passed on down through CAVES,
To this day of comfortable HEARTHS?

God's DNA in his Image and Likeness.

Breath first inhaled by lungs perfectly CLEAR,
Without any diaphragmatic complaints...

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Somehow, through the haze that our lives have become,
we ended up next to each other, 
under the covers, 
with darkness and silence all around.

The soft sound of her rhythmic breathing; 
the faint scent of perfume...

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Promise me your hands will reach out
Resilient attachment starts in childhood
When the brain has colic outside the womb
A mother’s unconditional love soothes worries
When a birthday missed slices the cord
Like two neurons missing a connection
Like a...

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In a average lifetime, humans usually eat
About sixty thousand pounds of food
That's equal to the weight of six elephants
But the elephants have to be nude

Half of all Americans over fifty
No longer possess their own choppers
Be...

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In a average lifetime, humans usually eat
About sixty thousand pounds of food
That's equal to the weight of six elephants
But the elephants have to be nude

Half of all Americans over fifty-five
No longer possess their own choppers
Be...

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Bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh:                      (Genesis 2:23)
A man leaves his mother...

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Dateline:  19 August, 2008 – Sun Times Headline - Man says 9-foot tapeworm came from undercooked salmon salad 

I thought it appropriate to share this with you on its anniversary.

TAPEWORM

I felt the movement deep...

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These tears keep plunging down my face, I call it Red Devil’s rain.
This rain symbolizes agony, and sheltered pain.
These tears are not perceptible to others, but only to the one who bears the 
name.
Which is...

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As we talked about life and the problems we have,
    I pulled out of my pocket a can I call Magic Salve.
You rub it on wherever the pain hurts the most.
 ...

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" Mirror "

On days some rare without care,
We find ourselves thrown down.
With naught nor clue of dawn's fresh dew,
In mirror of lake see we our frown.

Yet given chance or happenstance,
Time though's lost on us.
For ever...

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In school these days 
they teach about 
sex education 
but perhaps 

they should teach 
about work
when my son 
was a baby

he woke every two hours
doctors said he had colic
time and time again overnight
we got up...

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Rejection is a way of protection.
I do it to protect myself from predators of the heart.
It keeps my priorities impart.
Why is the world so animalistic?
I suffer from experienced love pained colic.
When they ask I say...

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Boil me to perfection

                            You know what understand...

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If I win, I will put my bikini in my bin, I will go for to romp promptly.
If I fly to my gritty city, I will fry, but I will not cry.
If I win, I...

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The nature has been unruly
Where we laid our chimneys
Pandemonium whirling in the air
The accents terrible was heard
The hatched to the woeful time
Manifest the obscure birds
The clamouring livelong through nature 
The earth is peculiar on the...

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when wrote this i was only about 16 so please don't go coo coo on me




YOUNG GIRLS ARE HAVING BABIES AND IT IS A SHAME, FOR SOME CAN BARELY SPELL 
THEIR NAME.
THEY CAN BARELY FINISH...

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walking rocking
most of the night
nursing
humming
no end in sight
drinking tea and walking my screaming boy
out to the deck in the dead of night
stars and quiet, owls hoot

dogs nose always on my knee
he wants to know
how can...

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