Long Crusting Poems

The Bus Incidents 
The Bus Incidents 
The one hour bus ride and the things we have to find to write about the less said 
the better 
has been dethroned today eye am a better than...

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Unless…
        by Odin Roark

Seems just yesterday the sun arced
Over precarious ice
The street’s one elm
Leaned its naked branches with the wind Bringing winter’s announcement

A Coney Island cat crouched puzzled
Gradual...

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Muffins, Doritos and Cheetos, Oh My! (A Bulimic’s Tale)

There is a hole in her core she must sate.
So, she drives to the grocery store before it’s too late.

She steers the cart in search of junk...

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She thinks about fear
with quick step of right foot

And thinks about why
as she swings with strong left

Why she can't think
of a name
When He's deep in his greed
for more fame.

Should it not be the case
famous greed...

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but I'm cooking

going out...

     but just looking,

Do You find this so amusing?
             all your using confusing
   ...

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the lonely traveler pauses
to contemplate the road sign
ahead
the decision of deciding
a path
that has no foreseeable ending
just another choice 
to be made and lived
with

like a gambler
the rambler rolls
down a dusty road
continually chasing
the sunset
that lights the cirrus...

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"Time Is…”

Time is the generous giver,

Which got me to thinking of the sea,

Through cosmic ebb and constraining flow,

I grabbed the knob and opened the door,

Opened the door to the remissive sonorous past,

Waves of effervescent ocean...

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As the moon smiles upside down her face 
turning on the box so to speak ill news
All one hears the devil's hate
wars and killings
Then switching of the poison 
finding such pure peace 
birds of all...

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Enamel finger-smeared thick with butter
Yellow onions, yellow butter, floured and browned
Just add cream
From roux to dream
Now spice to glue that hold my world together

The team assembles for its tasty mission
Cheddar, gouda, mozz and more
Thick sheets...

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It started with dry leaves 
pirouetting around
the yard on the back
of a skittish breeze, 
the magnolia rubbing  
against the fence
as if scratching an itch,
a few raindrops teasing
a thirst. Then,
distant thunder. 

The sound seemed to...

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Where are you this night, Serenity?
With plains of dying tears
Crusting upon the soaked lashes
Deep bleeding heart aches 
Painfully laden with twisted betrayal
Sharp you are this night Serenity
Words piercing like swords
Wrapped in flames, scorching
Glossy eyes reflect...

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The evils enter your body and manifest into millions of chambered objects
revolving around a stem of beating flesh. Hollowing you in like a starving child
they hide you away from the light and live off your...

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Here
I am here.
...a small weathered grey stone in the middle of an ecru cube
I am, as if woven with willowy white by spider to this chair
shedding my last skins
molting, melting, swelling, crusting over 
a dampened...

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Braised by the sparkle of snow on the ground.
Drawn by a tapered moon.
Chilled by the air you rise to hound
then startled by the crumpled tune.

Mist floating heavy with sweat on the banks.
Damp to the open...

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Grant me pancakes trolleys
Rocket-fueled swingsets
Marmalade mountains
with high-crusting cream.
Seattle strings its polite passers
Among misting choirs of clouds,
So begging I go for dixie cups of chili
Steaming block by block, as a harsh July
Has every fourth day blue.
I...

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A boy on the verge of manhood
Can lift a girl effortless
Her crotch to his chest

In the weightless ocean

The young woman
Eye to eye with the soon-to-be man
Who possesses surprising strength

She is taken he is amazed

They should...

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