Long Dispensers Poems

This is one excited kid and one PROUD father...



I took my son to the lumberyard last Tuesday afternoon. The day itself, though toasty, was the best in quite some time.
And when we’d finished shopping -...

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Epigrams VI

These are humorous epigrams including a form I call "Less Heroic Couplets." 



Less Heroic Couplets: Mini-Ode to Stamina
by Michael R. Burch
 
When you’ve given so much
that I can’t bear your touch,
then from a safe...

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I am not your daughter
I will wear pink and red together
Just because they don’t match
I will dye my hair black
Not only just because you said not to 
But because I know I’m not a blonde...

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Not-So-Heroic Couplets
by Donald Trump
care of Michael R. Burch 

To outfox the pox: 
kill yourself first, with Clorox!

And since death is the goal, 
mainline Lysol! 

No vaccine?
Just chug Mr. Clean!

Is a cure out of reach?
Fumigate your...

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I attended a meeting with, supposedly a friend, and was introduced to
Despised, Dehumanized, Decreased, Diminished, Disregarded, and Devalued,                 ...

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On retirement all The Due proceed,
Because cars don’t their speed exceed;
In their pet jobs hope to succeed,
Sometimes sensible warnings don’t heed.
A solution to the riddles of idleness,
And checking of their feelings of awkwardness:
Relieved cops a...

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“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, 
but I have promises to keep, 
and miles to go before I sleep” (Robert Frost).

The woods know my secrets
For I open my heart
In this enclosed sanctuary of God
As...

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“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, 
but I have promises to keep, 
and miles to go before I sleep” (Robert Frost).

The woods know my secrets
For I open my heart
In this enclosed sanctuary of God
As...

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No one in particular (in the wake of our dreams)

We don’t look like they do,
graphic replicas of a life in tatters,
drifting on lonesome clouds
Dove’s wing spread
capturing the wind,
waving goodbye to an existence
that dreams in black...

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Her optimism solid in her roots of red white and blue
Gallant knight was coming in princely form any time now
A waitress in every small town of America
Grinned her grin, showing her cutesy petootsieness
Her over polite...

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Have you felt decreased, diminished, disregarded, and devalued?
Have you had a rendezvous with dejection and rejection?                   ...

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I’m a young woman living the American dream
working in a fast food restaurant 
this is not what I dreamed of but 
I got to be supporting my family, 
to make them proud

Working in the McDonalds...

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Baseball cards and hula hoops
  Baloney sandwich, Campbell’s soup

Howdy Doody and Mickey Mouse
  Mamie and Ike in the White House

American Bandstand, Rock 'n Roll
  Elvis the Pelvis, Nat King Cole

Pez Dispensers and...

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I am a eukaryotic cell with various organelles,
I am present in various shapes of stellate, spherical and knob threads.
Nucleus is my brain,
Which has karyolymph and a nuclear membrane.
Closer to it, lies the ER which spreads...

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Some guys sprinkle when they have a tinkle
and spurt wee wee all over the floor
Then they leave the lavatory seat up
these two actions I simply abhor!

The ladies sit down on the toilet
when they are in...

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To teach kids about hieroglyphs
We can show them doctor's prescription slips
For this illegible version
Exactly tallies its description
Medicos scrawl letters with awkward curves
And to read you've to strain nerves
While reading the prescribed drugs
Often a dispenser sneers...

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To teach kids about hieroglyphs
We can show them doctor's prescription slips
For this illegible version
Exactly tallies its description
Medicos scrawl letters with awkward curves
And to read you've to strain nerves
While reading the prescribed drugs
Often a dispenser sneers...

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Traveling through all the portals in my head
all as one is one nothing left to do one 
unlimited kingdom mosaic of shit and corpses
how many lives contaminated?
How many spiraled out to crash into fate 
Oblivious...

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Who dares to be so presumptuous as to declare Nature's 
wonders……flowers, trees, birds and bees……unimportant

A tree reaches forth to receive the sunlight
It's branches are welcoming of birds in flight
A flower sprinkles its scent upon the...

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Our public toilets have been locked
to stop people from stealing
The depths that some folk stoop to
is really quite revealing

They stole the toilet paper
from dispensers on the wall
And hand sanitiser from the sink
folk were left with...

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