Long Crank up Poems

The remnants of August 2024 Hurricane Debbie

Like a humane huntress, she
(the anthropomorphized storm)
brought a spate of cool Autumn like
temperatures and gentle soothing rain
here within my neck of the woods
for the last couple of days.

No matter...

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While daydreaming about timepiece inventors...
as the figurative curtain closes on 2022

How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the passage of time,
and I would be hard pressed
to differentiate one moment
from the next without the...

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(Historical train-ride on the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1870 from Omaha to Ogden aboard the Union Pacific Railroad)     © 2009 (Jim Sularz)


I can hear the whistle blowing, 
two short bursts, it’s...

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Rather than crank up the heat...

and ratchet up global warming
like bubbling vegetable stew
with tsk... tsk... heard
courtesy Greta Thunberg,
who would utter "how dare you..."

I bundle with layers to stave off cold
energy efficiency drilled courtesy
me late mother...

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A lonely tear stains my face as our baby girls cling to me
 I woke up knowin' that its time for you to go
 Fully understanding that this is how it has to be

 "Lil...

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I had just set my headphones

down when the intercom

buzzed and Ruben O’s 

voice asked urgently:

 

“you ready man?”

 

I’m standing before the

multi-slide mixing board

in a studio dreamily

streaked in amber from

the track lights.

 

“Eagles Lyin’ Eyes...

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All the others row the boat slow while I crank up the motor....
Here we go let's start the show, I'm the show boater.

The entrance of the eminent,
with ability that's evident.
Poo fills your pants 
as you...

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Rather than crank up the heat...

and ratchet up global warming
like bubbling vegetable stew
with tsk... tsk... heard
courtesy Greta Thunberg,
who would utter "how dare you..."

I bundle with layers to stave off cold
energy efficiency drilled courtesy
me late mother...

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Music comforts the soul, cures that restless spirit.
       Some songs will make you crank up the volume so everyone can hear it....
Music can alter moods, and talk to you.
...

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Hurled into the desert by a beatnik pilot and dropped off just above nirvana.  I find myself in a peculiar yet remarkable position.  I am now alone.  I look out above the...

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March 10, 2019 - Daylight Saving Time Starts

The homey nimble storied wisdom of
Benjamin Franklin still
admired during hour time,
especially noteworthy, for slime
molds, the second Sunday of March,
when theft linkedin with

(Ides say) most innocuous crime
re: stealth of...

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Who knows whence the measurement 
of time came about, though this chap 
proposes the following general happen
stance. Perhaps psalm body named Judas 
Priest arranged to congregate, but cohorts 
restless (sans Quiet Riot), did Accept 
a...

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Well it’s one o’clock on a Tuesday
The regular crowd wanders in
There’s an old broad
Sittin’ next to me
Wonderin’ which room she’s in

She says, “Girl can you join me for bingo?
I don’t really like playin’ alone
But I’ll...

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Bad sick  brains/ A jolt to the soul Energy raw, untamed, a primal scream/
 Then Blink-182, "First Date," pop punk dreams, sixty million views, a digital stream, what a bad dream/ is anybody makin’...

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Don’t play like u wanna kiss me
If u miss me
Don’t hug me 
see what happens if you try and touch me
Untouchable

Stop.
That just makes me sound pathetic 
I don’t get it
Guess love is a confusing thing
Always...

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Should you vote the democratic ticket, then let the farce be with you!
All I can say is please do some serious research before you do.

It’s not just about change but this country’s future is at...

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I close my eyes just to look at you
And ignore the smoke
To create the vision I think I should have of you
Then the smoke rises and
I have to open my eyes
Just to squint out the...

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I awaken to Alexa playing some AI version of an old Beatles song. Seems to me the new version is even better than the original. Instinctively, I grab my IPhone to check my messages, scan...

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when your mind has become like a rusted out car
you crank up the radio to drown out the noise
the screeching problems you should have addressed years ago
you get lost in the music and your thoughts...

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Yo baby, show lots of skin.
Sexy, trashy girly glams,
crank up classy. Young fun,
ultimate goal appear buff, 
why focus on the candies. 
Looky stark naked unsightly scene         ...

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I want to ride it to the kerb (UK) 
demonstrating my will to take it on hard 

hook: (car, lean as driving fast)
so wee.. (we) lean the left 
and wee... (we) lean the right ...

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I close my eyes just to look at you
Ignore the smoke
and create the vision I think I should have of you
Then the smoke rises
And I have to open my eyes
Just to squint out the teats
Now...

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Sweet satin dreams prempts peeks of sun
Through white slant eyed and dusty blinds

Sending furnance like blasts of heat at times
Yet cooled by an overhead fan.

The patter of cat paws upon my turquoise sheets
Alerts me every...

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Like a mist on an either lake
I haunt you through the day
You twist from a dreary ache
As I taunt you from the shade

Anxious in your chest
A whisper in the distance
I crank up your unrest
As I...

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1st Verse-

Why can't I do things the way I wish
and you do the same
this cigarette ration is making my stomach squish
I'm not just some dame

We both used to smoke back when
but you quit
you never got...

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