Long Forceps Poems

Am I the Assassin 
        or the Undertaker

                   For Palani...

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Four Short Poems for the Apocalypse

Poem #1 – “Reality Bites”

Feeling so hopeless.
Feeling the loss somewhere inside.
I can feel it, but I don’t know quite where.
Reality bites.
Feeling so awkward and sad.
I knew it was bound to...

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Intravenous therapy,
She's watching over me.
Grasping my hand,
She whispers, "please dear, count to ten."

Six... piercing paralysis,
Her hand cold as the air.
She lets go, leaving me there.
Alone, squirming, for just one prayer.

Yelling, and screaming.
Kicking, twisting, and questioning.
Nothing...

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Those Midnight Infatuations 


 


 


1. 


You're the water  


on the phone Sun 


that I crave. 


To become the 


dopamine blocker  


in my brain. 


 


2. 


I am the minuscule rolled balls ...

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‘ex post facto’ it is facile to see the human reality of  matter

one does not need artificial intelligence to feel sorrow and joy

	a life not bravely examined is not worth living

	and therefore she dissected...

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As I entered the dissection hall with trepidation
My insides churned with disgust
When I set eyes on the cadaver
I felt scared and squeamish, but to continue was a must

I slipped on my gloves
And held up my...

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The second, ten years later, 
caught her body less prepared. 
Had  finger nails been more pared her clench 
might well have spared his palms
so close to drawing blood. 

Her pelvis did not dilate in...

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The world has never been smaller,
we’re making strides for peace,
bonds of trade and the internet
bring us closer, at least.
an age where the old armed conflicts
may finally be no more—

(If your really want a lasting peace,
prepare...

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Hey s'up Joe? You bring the beer?
Yup, I'll set it here within our reach.
You know, we've been at this a year..
I see you got that last part complete.

This book sure was a nice find, Bill.
Yeah,...

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Word Painting In Black and White

Cubed ice dismantling the plank bridge with pliers 
made of syrup spilled with a dash of grief and brawn 
the reptilian doughboy mixes up another cosmic batch 
of truth cookies...

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A memory from deep recesses of my mind crept
Meandering, probing, seething
In deep shafts of wrath swept
From crevices where the memory for too long held prisoner wept 

Cursing the day it saw the light of day
In...

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Oblivion Contest
Sponsor: Rob Carmack

Unconscious while the universe fights against her,
    Not aware of the hell that awaits in the next room,
        Not established in her...

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a marginally redemptive micro biography 
offhandedly ushered into this reverie 
by Ellipsis the muse of all highway roundabouts
my first impressions at age minus 20 minutes
stuck in the birth canal of a woman 
whose deeper psychological...

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To avoid the pale blue pain hue
I do not visit the river shore any more
If I do sometimes by chance
One by one
Our spent moments
Both closed and open
Come in a long bluish queue
And in the snow...

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The Home

They stumble around humming silent, mad little tunes to themselves.
Needles of solace pierce their skin, as they recline, watching Lassie.
I look at the shattered pieces of my psyche I just hurled against the wall.
The...

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I’m a revelation, a mutation, a mutilation,
Divine will and hysterical damnation.
One nation under a spell of castration.
I’m the chemical, you’re the academical,
Condemning the notion of free motion.
Polemical
Hearing
Healing
Break through the gold ceiling, persist to steal it.
Stuck...

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A grey coloured dusk in a flask of tea that day
and you
With the shaft of sunlight
Both dim and bright 
Both the sapling and tall tree

The trio is at breaking the granite in the pen
for a...

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I close my eyes
So I can see you
That I'm still in your heart

I clench my hands
So I can feel you
That I'm still inside of you

I rub my heart
To ponder... that you still care for me
I...

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These are the times when the sunlight is fragile
the peace that we’ve known lies empty
Flowers are crooked and bent from fatigue
Love letters lost that you’ve sent me

These are the days when winds of change blow
Seasons...

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A pair of forceps the size of food tongs
turned off one light in my two room watch tower.
In those days Grizzly bears were called eye surgeons.
I did not see half the world slip away
over my...

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Note to self: In observation where there seems to be nothing there, there is 
always air.  Even without matter there is something for instance light waves.

The spirit of the Divine in me seeks the...

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Twisting, spinning, upside down
Scraping, sliding sideways, air bags deployed 
Blackness, calm, conscious, seat belt bound
visions flashing through his brain
Does not know who, someone has bled
Dash lights blurry, silence
"Megan, Megan!"
"Oh, my God, my daughter"

“Forceps..Clamp...watch the heart...

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I know a place; no one likes to be there,
yet nearly everyone I know has gone
to sit with trepidation in a chair,
and then reclined, each person sits and drools
while helplessly they stare up at the...

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trapped,
safeguarded,
each appendage
secured in amber,
some Jurassic specimen
created for your gaze

you regard me
with a quizzical eye,
comb your notes carefully 
for collected data
on my anomalies

how to straighten this limb,
shape this abdomen,
bend this thorax
to fashion the perfect
exemplar of your
scientific...

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Slide back the action,
The hammer clicks,
Reaction,
Pin hits the primer resulting in a kick,
I exit the barrel causing disruption.

I give no thought to my victim, 
No mercy when I hit them,
Shredding flesh and shattering bone,
Pray one...

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