Long Fix up Poems

A LETTER TO MOM 1918
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


At Last Dear Mother, this Nightmare Will Cease
In a Few Short Hours There Will Be Lasting Peace
A  Full Armistice Will Go into Effect at Eleven
I Loathe These Soiled...

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And then I told her to put her breast on top of the table.
She lifted then settled on the wet yet wiped down counter,
and I just watched with my eyes smiling for my mouth and...

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Nothing in my life has ever been anything like this.
When I started my company it was nothing but bliss.
I invented a company called “The Edit Centre”
Back in ’86, I was quite the inventor.

The business model...

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Some things I thought would never change - 
it would always be "us three",
I try so hard to understand 
why that wasn't meant to be.
The smiles, fun, and laughter; 
the jokes we'd throw around,
Are now...

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Long ago on some days, yet not so long on others,
I do so recall those days when I was yet a mother.
Days of being careless and having fun, 
Not having to be responsible for anyone.

Then...

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It seems as if fate itself has crossed 
my path once again 

This time with the complete polar
opposite cards in tow

Offering me the same deal but this
time in reverse

When 1st he came he set in...

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Man, I remember the thrumming of that last bell of the school year.....
Like a prisoner being furloughed into the warm sun, buzzing of grasshoppers.
Field stickers burrowing into your ankles, joyfully, while you take the wrong...

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The time has come to string the lights and decorate the tree,
Fix-up the barn an' house a mite for all the folks to see,
Cause Christmas time's around the bend, an' Santa's underway
A-makin' toys for girls...

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Black girl and Indian boy
	

She is a black girl
In the church choir
He would see her pasting
By the fence wire

He fell in love with her
But they never talk before
And everyday in the yard
He waits to see...

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Note

(Try to put your best Scottish accent on when reading this one)



Disguarded fae the workplace, rusted red distorted frame.
Mangled handles reachin' oot like a wee disguarded bairn.
Were ye pushed aroon' a factory,heavin' loads or liftin'...

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Her name was Ethel....(yes, like the gasoline)
She smelled of menthol...(much like Vick's Vaseline)
A long time neighbor, from down the lane
She was married twice...(or was it thrice?)...
A widowed lady, we knew her well

A bit disgruntled, and...

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A Gothic Revival Quest 

Pillars in light fashionable decorum sets the standard
 Those high rise structures with heavenly interior
 The holy oblation lead to the ultimate construction
 In matters of trust we can maintain a...

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"Here is my hand to lead you
Here are my arms that need you"

                      Cilla...

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I've shared my heart one too many times
I've been there for others who never returned the loyalty I dealt
I've been scarred by the past and the roads I've travelled 
I can't be there for others...

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Breaking in to America on a Snowy Evening
Loch David Crane
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps member
May 2, 2006

Whose land this is I think I know–    
    America, where all things glow.
They...

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Missing a remarkable meaning in my life
I’m the woeful sacrifice
play me as the dice
on the solid table
and roll me and speak of a fable
don’t toss me 
like a valueless toy
brushing…echoing harsh envy
Heed to our last...

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Sirons and bells of no temple or holy cause
It was the time in Vietnam at field of wars
Uncertain and chaotic situation it was for all
Taking life on hand everyone had to stroll

Heart was panting of...

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Once a lovely lady held me in her hands to dig holes,
in her beautiful garden full of flowers of all kinds;
we were always moving things around, here and there,
or planting new- somehow, together we found...

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She wakes at dawn, clock set for eight
she tried to rest- but work won't wait
cooking, cleaning, coffee to brew
“Oh without me, what would they do?”

Breakfast done, she clears the table
bustles down to meet with Mable
whose...

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Where were you when I tried to call? How come you didn't answer your phone? was it 
because you were out with someone else? Don't even try to lie to me I have the pictures...

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Fix up this love or I'm tearing it down
You took a decent house and turned it inside-out
You sealed up the windows and padlocked the doors
Why wasn't I on board with these plans of yours

And now...

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For lunch today my wife said,
husband, why don’t we eat out.
I said, Honey in these Covid times,
that’s not what I’m about.

You just sit back and rest your feet,
and let me worry about our lunch.
I have...

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I-Claudio

Eccentric and affable, charming and wily, 
Oozing charm and charisma, staying lucid and smiley, 
The perfect comparison to what came before, 
And he brought us a miracle, now we've showed him the door?

He protected his...

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AND THERE WILL BE DOORS

leave the kids alone
and there will be doors
sibling’s pounding fist
and a door much too tall
you simply can’t resist
and a door that falls
surely becomes your mattress
and a merciful son
who doesn’t want to...

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You want to go out on your own for a beer
Catch up with a friend you’ve not seen for a year
Hear all the news about who’s doing what
How much they earn, and the things they...

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