Long Crepes Poems

Written in summer of 1976.


I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessmen from Campbell Soups.

We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed with hay

And talked of pending corporate plans
And willow-haired orangutans.

I spent...

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The Avenue of Gastronomic Delight

Down the broad avenue called Gastronomic Delight
City life gathers when twilight awakens;

In eateries, drive-ins, greasy spoons and taverns – jumpin’ joints jumpin’
Like Snoopy with his dish doing the suppertime dance;

Lured by...

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How I Got Rich and What Happened Then

I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessman from Campbell's Soups.

We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed with hay

And talked of pending corporate plans
And...

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I know I've been to Chicago,
     But I only remember the snow.
I know that I've been to Albuquerque,
     but I mostly just remember the hot marketplace
 ...

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We are friendly sort of people, greeting and asking how you are,
One great nation, two languages, the distance between coasts far,
Travel to Quebec or to some areas in provinces east and west,
You may be asked...

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The asphalt driveway is blackened over by rain 
sand bags lie in the corner of the garage in case water creeps in, some sheep scurry in distant fields 

Your elephant eyes are locked on the...

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Wooing,  My LOVE
Chateau-Briand, with homemade sauce Bernaise
Pancake cottage fries, al dente cauliflower Polonaise
1971 bottle of Pouilly-Fuisse on ice, already Chilled
The Love of my Life, Barbara; with Love my Heart: Filled
The Centre piece is Roses...

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Since youth, I've been a big foodie; every goodie I've tried, even sushi.
At 18, I traveled abroad, first to France; Thank heavens I didn't try frog!
I got to try crepes (sweet filled envelop shapes) and...

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I dained that I'd distress the Dutch,
Refrain the French with such - and - such.
'Gainst Germans I'd my victory forge,
Churchillian chants in Cheddar Gorge.

Send Poles packing from our building site,
Put the Belgians - bang -...

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6/8/17


A world full of different colors and shapes
As well as apes
Locations that do or don't sell crepes
Vines with or without grapes
Houses with dark or light drapes
That do or don't have cassettes and video tapes
Near and...

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On Earth's bare bosom, do flowers dream?
A panoply of beauty flitting from flower to flower, 
with bees reeling drunk in their ecstasy.
As a flock of vivid white crepes stroll an apricot sky, 
chirps of restless...

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Weekend
Fast fade
Monday morning
Mother in a rush
Footsteps 
Quick beat
Feet barely touching 
Cement 
Dropping me off 
Was Mother’s necessity.

In the kitchen
Grandmother and Mother 
Exchanged easy words
And laughter
Sun shining
Inside
Puffy faced
I searched an old cigar box 
For the candy...

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Disturbed  over what she had planned
for tomorrow. Often times she refused to
me as included with her plans.

What sweet sonnets sing ye
the sound of togetherness
tangled with romance
an evening of love
a night to dance
Yes you my...

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If you wait until the sun goes down,
a thousand suns will rise.
Artificial, bright, igniting
tangled clouds in smoggy skies,
and flooding dingy streets
with fluorescent streams of light
that carry waves of people,
cresting, crashing, clashing 
across mismatched sidewalks.
They speak...

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Poems in Popularity

As my poems in popularity continue to gain
One day over all others soon will start to rein
People out of homes to buy them shall storm
And mighty, major monopoly begins to form.

You will be...

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I awake six a.m. August 26, 1971, My new BRIDE by my side
The fingers of the Sun caressing  HER long silken auburn hair
Creating a kaleidoscope of Sunsets  EVERLASTING SUNSETS

My eyes  caress the...

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Apple crumb and angel food cakes
Butterscotch banana shakes
Chili, Chinese, cheese, and chips
Doughnuts, deviled eggs and dips
Éclairs, English fish and chips
Fudge, fondue, fritters and French crepes
Guacamole, gumdrops, frosted grapes.
Hash browns, hot dogs, ham and honeyed scones
Italian...

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Fork in a rattler tongue,
knife in hooded cobra veiled hand
Silver spoon boa stomach demand,
air insatiable adder lung
Squeeze some more blood juice
out of the acidic voice fermented grapes
Hate poisoned liver-flavored pâté crepes,
pretzel logic is a spaghetti...

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Follow the best crepe recipe
Make crepes and set aside
In a bowl soften dark chocolate
Butter 
1 /2  cups butter
1/4   cup of sugar
3/4  cups of dark or white chocolate
2 egg yolks
1/4 heavy cream
2...

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Billy Buttons
under  the 
Celery Pines

free verse 

Billy Button's downy foliage
Burst open with large gold blooms.
Midst thousands of dandelion's green
Above, celery pines tip their plumes.

Grasslands wave contently in the fields
Missouri golden rods climb the hill.
Broom...

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Smallest ants cast long shadows
 
                             ...

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It's another girls road trip
Now summer is here.
We're off along the coast.
The second trip of the year.

Off to a brunch
At the Fanny Bay Inn
Where the crepes are the best 
And the dessert is a sin.

Then...

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It's back to the wilds, for the unexplored
Panama's island, Pygmy Three-Toed Sloths.
Tree huggers, twenty hours daily, course, lots
of trees. Four of a kind, their fifth, record
as the smallest. Clocked slow, a leaf lasts one
month in...

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she is an exquisite dinner
awakens taste with beguiling smiles
a platter of kindness
wrapped in delicate crepes
lips that promise
a selection of wines
set for any course you so desire
a delicate glass never empty
a macedoine salad
stolen from the garden...

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Follow me and together we'll go 
Over the mountains, to romance the snow
Ride a gondola lift to the great Matterhorn 
Alsace-Lorraine to Château de Landskron
Love in the Alps on the French side of town
Lifted to...

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