Long Exeunt Poems

LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE IV

Anti-Vegan Manifesto
by Michael R. Burch

Let us
avoid lettuce,
sincerely,
and also celery!


Rising Fall
by Michael R. Burch

after Keats

Seasons of mellow fruitfulness
collect at last into mist
some brisk wind will dismiss ...

Where, indeed, are the showers...

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Wordless worries wander wearily working wayward,
    Towards thoughts transgressing truth’s textured tide.
As always acknowledging agnosticism’s appeal,
    Essence easily evaporates, exeunt Emile. 
Very virtuous violent vowels vociferously validate,
  ...

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WHY MR ANDERSON WHY
The underdog, none new under the sun
For the top dogs, there we see Miss Ferguson 
Doing the homespun trying to go nuts
Furiously livid like she had a blunt
Exeunt, is where she directs...

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The Jackal's line of demarcation ye souls' furlough for interim...
Today, cockcrows perturb in a gala thrice for thee quiescent stay,
God's Park of Ephemera, sashays the daggled the minder harks,
a chest not in to rest, of...

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MINNIE

Entrant.
Act One. Scene Five. A voyage into The Minnie.
Never embark on this imagination without Me
Como dije, te ves hermosa
With gusto sing I the booty song with every strength I can muster.
Lips sumptuous, dripping sweetness is...

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- a brief tango -

I see from this pestering pedestal,
And what’s that I see?
Gazelles and antelopes of the Savannah
Or the deceits of a mooting brain?

I see them – a careful pick of a generation
In pairs...

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if the poem tastes too sweet
add a pinch of salt

if the poem tickles you
wear medieval armour

if the poem hits a nerve
numb yourself into submission

if the poem scratches you
place gloves upon its hands

if the poem is...

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Somewhere deep in the recesses of one's heart
A tiny voice speaks of love and compassion
Of what one could be, if one chose, even now for a start,
But want it one must with an all-encompassing ...

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Are we friends out of circumstance?
If we met now would I spare you a glance?
There’s this voice in the back of my head
that occasionally fills me with dread.
It says that you’ll be the one to...

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Welcome to McPoetry Soup.  May I take your order, please?
   Sure.  Give me a McSonnet and a McSoda.
What would you like on your McSonnet?
   Oh.  How about a...

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I
If the Universe came into being Itself
As a quantum vacuum
Which is never totally empty
Never devoid of all particles and energy 
Then, one-actor is the Source
Of everything there is!
If all it takes is energy to gather
Then...

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??EVERGREEN??

Green Panther, does wearing green
Or being homegrown and living as indigene
equals patriotism and makes you ever green?
Does staying or returning to your home country
signifies patriotism and make you unchary?
Your choice annihilate your reality as a...

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Awake,listen!The echo's in the land,
The call to humanity quakes the
global root,
The roses in respect bow,for the
call's so grand;
A voice of resolution to the corroded
planet.
Quick!Exeunt the podium!
Inter the rainment
That beams with injustice and racism,
Inequality and violence,act...

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