Long Fresno Poems

I walked up to the church
(And I swallowed my pride) 
and asked the lady 
can she please step aside 
That my children are hungry 
 and can you please sacrifice
anything for them to eat 
She...

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No-one knows precisely when the rivalry began; 
thirty-two the legend goes; eighteen or nineteen?
It's not clear, nor can it be confirmed.

Apart from once in fifty-nine
For reasons lost in time;
The Fresno Fuzzy Socks
And The Chattahoochee Crocs
Have...

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Botched Artwork Saves Town

Sometime last year, in late August 2015, something unusual went viral..
It was an ancient picture on the wall, vastly unlike its original art..

A piece of botched artwork, unfinished, and yet all over...

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The madman chalked red X’s
on the sidewalks of the houses 
if he suspected 
or had evidence
that people there 
were unkind to each other, 
or their dogs.

When he was a young man,
he studied hobo signs 
chalked...

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Trucker Duckie

His P.I.C handle is:
TRUMP DOGG

Road incorrecto políticamente 
rolls his 18-wheeler Hogg

Transporting border illegals is the 
			  Primary cache crop haul
Outfoxing blue Smoky Bears
			is his favorite Duckie call

Just like the Big Don,
dodging the Law
is...

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YouTube.com is the best home movie website all users have ever visited. this website is as
the same as the episode of "America's Funniest Home Videos." For when these people want to
post their own videos on...

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I REMEMBER THE LITTLE GIRL

BMWs shine on the lot, row after row,
reflecting the blinding summer sun of Pinedale, California.
Their windows blink back stories of 4,792 Japanese Americans
interned on this same lot seventy-eight years ago.

I remember...

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“THE GIRL FROM FRESNO”


HAPPY BIRTHDAY. 
I HOPE YOUR DAY IS ONE TO 
REMEMBER.
12:02pm my message goes out. 
12:03pm her message comes in.
I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM YOU IN 
OVER A YEAR. 
HOW ARE YOU?
I'm honest with...

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Make for the corner, Fresno-Whittier
(there’s neighborhoods a whole lot prettier):
it’s probably ten-ninety-six,
but don’t draw weapons – that’s a Nix.
The man before you’s not a “perp”,
so don’t come on like Wyatt Earp.

Latina (claims she’s J-Lo’s cousin)
talking...

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The Empty Academy Schoolhouse

It stands on a vast green lot,
No trees to shelter it from heavy, gray clouds
on the rolling foothill horizon.
Its thin coat of white paint peels,
revealing bare, dry-rotted wood.
The rickety porch boards,
once sturdy...

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Doing The Right Thing

Somewhere in Fresno, Central California....
A family popped into a diner for a meal together...

When they left, they left behind a canvas pouch...
A cool $32k, in 100USD notes, was within this pouch...

The amount...

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I stuffed my pockets full of California minutes,
Set out from Bakersfield before the break of day.
Checked out a waitress at a coffee shop in Needles
Then blew through Flagstaff on my way to Santa Fe.

Cut loose...

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I tried balancing a bowl of hot oatmeal on my lap and reading his poems in my tired and
worn, green chair.  

On the back cover of a collection, a reviewer wrote “Simic may end...

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Instead of names, we're often called
By where we do reside,
So, "Hey, New York!" we're greeted with,
A simple ID guide.

Thus Texas, Fresno, Cleveland
And Kentucky we have met
And Arkansas and others
We have not conversed with yet.

A member...

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As I’m bowed, in cares distraught
Lightness unbends, thru an arbor caught

In the rigid coils of tight binds
Gladness interlaces with vines that unwind

Netted in a shadow of grasping night
Moonlit petals glow their reflective sight

Entrenched in weight...

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she never worked
she collected disability and child support
no ambition
3 kids from to fathers.
 she was lost in the backdrop of a California valley.

I plead guilty to being stupid,to actually tolerate a woman like this....
damaged
used up...

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