Long Emphysema Poems

Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - J)

Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine avoidable alliteration.

Because...? Basically bonafide belching,
bobbing, bumbling, bohemian beastie boy,
bereft bummer, bleeds blasé blues, begetting
bloviated boilerplate bildungsroman,
boasting...

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SPIDER

Eight furry legs
Approaching black blob
Screeeeeeeeeeeeeech


COCKROACH

Periplaneta americana 
Out of planet, preys on women's tuxedo
Blob of fat, smell, monster


JULIA'S HAIR

Chameleon
Gunslinger, sniper
Death,myriologue


O SPACE

A junkyard
Sepulcher of machines
Requiem

CROW

Squawk 
Squawk
Gasconade 


LIZARD

A baby lizard
Drops on my hand
Check in


TELEPHONE BILL

Krinngggggggggggggg
Krinngggggggggggggg
Pay your bill today...

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She reminded me of my Sister Tina... She had been adopted by a Christian Minister and her 
family, as we all eventually were, each separately adopted... who lived life to the fullest of 
faith. As...

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PUFF THAT MAGIC DRAGON.
                               ...

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When the wolf applied nicely
If he could come in,
The pigs replied thricely he shouldn't.
Then they scratched at the hairs
On their chinny chin chins,
And tightly bolted the door so he wouldn't.

But wolves, when out shopping,
Are not...

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Finding Presence

Night sky beckoning dawn
Gentle sensations 
Early morning walks
Empty avenues
Central Park breezes
Village cobblestone streets 
Wet with glistening reflections
Accompany the seeker’s every move

Citified whispers
Discordant choruses
The street cleaner
The sliding steel-front security doors
Excited canines straining leashes
Open casements echoing...

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Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - I)

Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine avoidable alliteration.

Because...? Basically bonafide belching,
bobbing, bumbling, bohemian beastie boy,
bereft bummer, bleeds blasé blues, begetting
bloviated boilerplate bildungsroman,
boasting...

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~ Me, 4 foster families adopted at 8,
a want to be perfectionist, creative athlete angry 
torn apart, bewildered and alone, missed the 
full college ride, the...

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Written By Carolyn Devonshire
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my curtain flickered furiously to the beat of an ever increasing new day
my hands all withered like a weather beaten out of season holiday
my eyes sunk down to the pit's of last night's cringe worthy...

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"The Young and the Breathless"- TV soap opera about youg emphysema 
patients unfaithful to their doctors.

Candid- Something you could do, and did do.

Phone Call- Bidding your phone to come to you.

Binary- What you can purchase...

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Just as eating too much cake 
will give you a bellyache,
genuine con is always real fake

An artful eye can chiseler tell
if Mona Lisa’s smile ain’t original
Forged truth ring alarm bells,
imitation lip-sync is the trip signal

Ducky...

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We Take For Granted:

       Lungs Filling, In – Out …
       How Respiratory Come About
       But Resuscitation To...

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To All My COPD Friends

Let me share an experience with you
That brought my life better quality
It is a surgery that is fairly new
And with God’s help it saved me

I began to feel my life slipping...

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The coal pits of yester-year in Wales.......... 


"Good morning Mrs Williams", 
Good morning Mr Grey. 
I see David's growing real fast, 
Yes! He's starting work today. 

Well you are twelve years old now son, 
And...

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Old Habits We Need to Break

When we were young death seemed like a far away star,
Part of reality, but alas we held afar.
Then you reach the peak of life and you can see what’s on...

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i think
i may
have
written this
once before
in a different
form and i'm 
sure titled
impromptu

but i can
visit it in
memory
as if it's
happening
again and
again for
forever
when i

want to
remind
me of a
time in
my life
in JFK
waiting
for a de
parture

looking
in a heat
ing grate
a still lit
cigarette
had been
thrown in
then...

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There may be "Advantages" to smoking!
But, I can't think of any today!
It puts a great strain on your wallet,
but, it's really your lungs, that will pay!

Your clothes and breath will give you away!
They have that...

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A pack a day,
An expensive way
To capture cancer,
Not a thing nice, 
But I did it twice

Survived them somehow,
Operations did the trick,
And I know better now...

But cigarettes 
Were not done with me,
Though I smoked no more,
It...

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A pack a day,
An expensive way
To capture cancer,
Not a thing nice, 
But I did it twice

Survived them somehow,
Operations did the trick,
And I know better now...

But cigarettes 
Were not done with me,
Though I smoked no more,
It...

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Emphysema is like 
living underwater,
Surrounded by an ocean
of air,
Which just can't get
where it needs to be
Even if you lie quietly
In your home, your lair

You wake up gasping
As if you ran
Up three flights of stairs
And there...

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Throw Them Away
By David J Walker

How often I saw him
Sitting, 
Smoking
Drinking coffee
Early in the morning
Thinking
	Worrying 
Perhaps praying? 
I cannot say

He would extract an 
unfiltered Camel from a
half empty pack ,
the second left over from 
each...

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How are you keeping, ma’am, I’m
Fine, while below the surface my
Life’s a stack of newspapers, randomly
Blanketing the furniture, they block the
Ingress of outsiders, the egress of
Emotion, they help me keep track
Of what’s important, who’s died,...

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I Love You

Smokers of the world unite
Keep that ciggie burning bright
Nick O’Teen is having fun
Clogging, blackening the lung

Don’t you know that it aint smart
To let that fiend into your heart
There won’t be any looking back
After...

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To the ground, plastics, papers and metals
To the mixture, scrap, damaged tires and dirty pieces of cloth
Amid natural ecosystems
From whose laxation natural escapes
The flammable methane gas

Triatomic is the altered range of oxygen by the action
Of...

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