Long Execrate Poems

Stimulus check(up), visited mine local gastro-intestinal economy

Around high noon
today March 19th, 2021
fecal impaction I did plaintively croon
until effect courtesy amitiza, which
prescription medication
(in short a laxative)
served as amazing grace saving boon.

Once activated - impossible mission
to suppress...

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Circa: 23rd of Tevet, 5760
     to 15th of Tevet, 5770
     in accordance
     with Hebrew date
(converted, asper Gregorian
     Calendar) courtesy...

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LXII+ years old and he still carries a security blanket

Move over Linus
Van Pelt of Peanuts fame,
cuz yours truly
also psychologically lame
since prepubescence
mine noticeably long hair

delivered inner comfort,
yet found some classmates
calling me "hippy" by name
though other tormentors...

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(okay, yukon axe me whatsapp pinning, 
     though beep pre spired, cuz mess sigh key
     threads experience didst rub burr raw 
     as...

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abominate, abhor, abuse, admonish, adumbrate, afflict, advance,
agitate, agonize, alcohol, announce, approach, awaken, bait, bark,
bawl, bedamn, bedevil, berate, betoken, bluster, bode, bother, break,
brew, browbeat, bully, caution, censure, chide, clutter, comminate,
complain, complicate, confuse, cow, crucify, DAD, damage,...

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I normally loathe commitment, 
Except when, by you, I'm smitten. 
You're the only plans I want now,
And the road I hope to walk down. 

I mostly abhor my meakness,
I see it as feeble weakness.
But when...

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Be ready for the futures that await;
The battle really lost is that not fought:
For no one is exempted from their fate.
    
Whatever plans we chalk upon the slate
Are easily erased, but still...

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© Ben Burton 7/14/2015

There was no rioting
No businesses were burned
Despite the burning grief
From most who saw and heard

A sanctuary town
Like Tombstone in its day
Where lawlessness abounds
Is just a shout away

And what becomes the cost
The villainous...

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I wonder.
I wonder.
I wonder why it goes.
I deny it,
try to fight it 
against the way it flows.

I ignore it,
I deplore it, 
try to push it far away.
But I fear it,
I'm too near it
and it haunts...

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Why is it that the sky retaliates
before its muddy texture is inflamed?
I would not hesitate to execrate
the one who shattered Heaven's placid frame.

I would assume the culprit is of man:
for does not lightning fork upon...

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