Long Folded up Poems

Monday, 5-1
Housekeeping:  I checked in early today for a long, business-related stay.  Now, I wish to relay that I brought two blue, hypoallergenic towels of my own, from my home.  Please remove...

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The Naked brazen placid blue
Meets its foe the dark forbidding nemeses
Who unleashes his growing anger and fury
Obliterating and defeating his enemy
Proclaims a victory and unrolls his miserable shroud
With utter contempt
And spews his venom
Impregnating his virgin...

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Do you know what it feels like to be a paperweight
like you're sitting on someone's chest
They can't move nor do you want to
pinning their arms above their head
screaming in their face to look at you...

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You came into her house through the kitchen. 
The big door in from the front porch
Hadn't been used for years;
Furniture stood hard against it.
A knock at the front door meant a stranger.

Aunt Celesta makes a...

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“If you are reading this note then I have
succeeded in trying to kill myself,
which means that I have killed the people who
did this to me, so my story I’ll tell.

“You’re wondering how I got to...

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I'm an orange monkey
in China I was made,
stitched with much affection
and garlanded with braid.

Purchased then on eBay
and wrapped to make a gift,
I was posted to a friend
who felt a little miffed.

I felt I wasn't wanted
when...

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I see them but I don’t hear them, 
I feel them but I don’t penetrate them.
They say that I am the main character in the show
 And I make their heart glow, my spirit is...

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Cold nights and tree lights taught him to forget home.
He’s mellow tonight though, no telling what goes unknown.
He packs light and steps heavy and taps his fading flashlight and I bet he’s a lefty.
Duracell down...

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What Distance?

The distance between them is 
folded up like a sheet of paper. 
That first kiss, her heart
is his forever.

He carries her bags 
to the guest bedroom.
He leaves so she can 
dress for the wedding....

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Mother sits beneath the trees
unwrapping tasy memories
  she lays them on a checkered spread
with lemonade and butter bread
   she says, "come now give this a try"
I twirl and twirl and ask her...

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Eddie was a braggart,
At least we thought as much.
His lower lip was loaded, 
A three finger dip of snuff…
My mind said, “I think not.”

And he claimed to be a rider,
Bragging of his chaps.
Black leather...

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Fog is a folded shadow cast on a concrete wall
Dim lights fall to the dirty pavement drains
As rain sweeps up around the gutter rims
Along the open cracks a mist fills in
In currents rippled, diamond tumbled...

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I pleasure dove into my treasure trove
Of keepsakes and mementos
I snoop around here about every ten years
And am always amazed at how quickly the time goes

There are pictures and things, an old mood ring,
Ticket stubs...

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When it's cold out there
like ice and I'm folded up 
in warm sheets, opening myself 
to the usual process of turning you over, 

Go on boy. 

It's good when the flow's uncomplicated, 
like sunshine and...

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I 
                              am a
  ...

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A folded up witness,
in origami,
sits on the table
beside the milk glass vase
and the book of 
"I told you so's"-
It weighs a dime
in scale
with sharpened paper points
for wings.
This patterned crane in red and gold glint
is, perhaps,...

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Wet streets, like wet streets after rain
hitting pavement like the slacking 
of vexed heels before the squabble 
of sun battling cloud, sun to win. 

Rapid transit, like transience,
like de-coherence with the fade 
of transition. Which...

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Trying to think of encouraging words 
to fold up and lose in my chest pocket 
And when I find this there 
folded up, and wrinkled 
what do i need to hear? 
what do i have...

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On the wings of winter afloat abandoned in northern wind,
the wilted leaves of longing waft away rustling recluse,
my frosted nest clings captive to the skeletal tree,
I count in heartbeat the footsteps of frozen twilight hour.

The...

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Leftovers

Don’t let Christmas come in too much of a hurry
I really can’t handle one more turkey curry
The kids now want something else for their teas
So it’s six pigs in blankets and biscuits for cheese

Faced with...

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You might get your wish
from a stick of ice.
that you might lick and lick
till the flavors nice.

Till you're nearly all done
and two sticks appear,
that you might think an end
is no time to cheer.

But you're wrong,...

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The pet peeves of a female tow truck driver

Please don’t hit on me
I’m here to tow your car
Not to date you

Don’t pass me your phone number folded up in cash 
I won’t call you 
EVER

Being...

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330am
Ere we came upon the stone red txt of Gannymede,
'Twas 3am the mind was Elder Quater Breed, 
the words went round n round a twit, 
me mind had slipped a cog or two a bit,...

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In the cerulean fervent sky 
my songbird of yearning soared high, 
glided in the rippling amorous breeze 
that wafted your fragrance to me, 
until the splitting storm surged  
and crushed the wings of longing....

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She looked through family photos trying to figure out
Whether or not she belonged 
Knowing she did not
Her birth mother was deceased now
She wished she had never found this family

They had been reluctant to meet her
They...

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