Long Dui Poems

"The Book of Changes"

Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves

always seen to be 
swimming upstream 
against the current

thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive 
before words, they are cast 

in the...

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TO:  Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner, Chief States Attorney

FROM: Dillen Dye’s Employer

8/16/16

RE: Some apparent non-compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act; common courtesy, civil respect; freely accessible pursuit of health, happiness, and prosperity

I don’t...

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This is a translation from the original poem "Dui Pakhi" (Two Birds) in Bengali  by India's Nobel-laureate Poet, Rabindranath Tagore.     

      The caged bird was...

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Honestly I’m tired. 
One minute I’m up, the next I’m down. 
I don’t know what real happiness is anymore. 
I smile but it’s fake. 
I laugh but the tears come next. 
What’s the point? Honestly…what’s...

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the Bus – Travels Through America’s Underbelly

I am a bus rider
That makes me unusual
For a white male 
From an upper middle class family

Our people are not bus riders
Though some are subway riders

Bus riders are other...

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I looked at the room broken bottles blood fragments of clothes.
maybe a tooth from somebody not fast are to drunk to get outta the way of a conversation 
turned bad. 

The juke box had almost...

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Kneeling in the median, crying, crying, what have I done?
Oh the pain, the pain wishing the past was undone.
I have no hope for my wretched life, now that I am alone.
The horror of a dying...

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VIC’S PLACE
 by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

When I come to I’ll start a new path
The one I’m on solicits her wrath
When the alarm went off I moved not an inch
If I opened my eyes a brawl was...

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"Vision Zero" -- no more deaths from highway accidents. The idea was born in Sweden, where it's had spectacular success in reducing traffic fatalities. Now zeroing out all traffic fatalities must become an explicit U.S....

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Peter is joining us for lunch in the cafeteria. I met him on a crowded Saturday morning at a coffee shop. He’s from the flammable, paper-dry, sagebrush hills of Malibu and grew up overlooking the...

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This is my story about behind bars blues, 
but this is my true story about me and booze.
Fourteen months after turning twenty-one, 
the judge was looking at me saying you're done.

At that point in my...

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Its are church the place of confession were no one cares to listen.
They just gather  to wait  collecting  dust and  and spots on there livers.
The poetic fool who's blind to the...

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Only in me, the choice I live by is the choice I dispise, only to be wise, a man in disguise. Only in me the destiny is in my power, only to construct, a reluctant,...

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It was a dark, snowy night,
My blurry eyesight,

I'm just trying to get from point a to B
But I can barely see,

I can hardly walk, talk, stand,
My slurred speech,

I know I shouldn't be driving,
But nothing will...

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Societetical Workerbe 
Societetical Workerbe 
 
 
The smells are many and varied embedded in his jeans the eye can smell his 
jacket the beer he had to drink is mingled with his chew or what...

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You drift away free from the dark wasteland of life 
Grow wings to fly unbound in the draping sunshine 
Soar high up above the verdant plateau of the woods
Sing the enthralling spring song of the...

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a hint of lime
brings back the time
when we were young and stupid
we loved like children
in the rain
i wish we only knew it
we walked for miles on 
eighty proof spiced rum
we found no answers
the shag green...

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One too many bouts of drunkenness
   A life of bright promise, made a mess
DUI tickets all over the place
   His portrait drawn, a clown's face

His wife --  his Laura-- gave...

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If you are on your second or 
Third DUI. 
  If you have been to rehab more 
Then one time. 

  Are you messed up on drugs 
Of all kinds? 
  The...

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It's kinda of a  drag.
Ya once were the mean spirted prom queen .
Now your just another bitter old hag.

That six pack led to a DUI.
Busted for skinny dipping down at the malls fountian.
Really do...

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Just read in the papers
your name once more;
illogical the powers
which huddle unseen.
You sat in my class,
scholarship’s pilgrim. 
I recall your nascent soul,
tranquil but with drive.

Now, your face, a shock
which scorches my eyes,
Pondering your death
mercifully, my...

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I’ve just moved
to the next screen
after another dollar
and I’m a hero
a man looks
over my shoulder
he slurs his speech
he falls down
the front steps
and takes a swing
at the person
who helps him
to the apartment
across the street
where he lives
for...

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(11/8/11)

The judge asked : why was you speeding?
Why was you going so fast?
Why didn’t you ease up on the gas?

Your honor : I was Driving Under The Influence
Of her love.
I felt like a shooting star...

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I was on the right side of the Great Divide,
and shore side of the incoming tide
but the wrong side of you

We were on the dry side of that Tennessee pride
and you were drive side when...

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Do U…
Yes, you do!

Celebrate with friends. 
Drinking laughing, 
and telling jokes. 
all is well. 

Merry Christmas, 
Happy New Year, 
I pray you see the first day, 
and not your last. 

It controls us, 
now. 
It...

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