Long Futon Poems

Am never paving way ever again to tears,
Am standing tall to all these fears,
I have trembled enough,
Struggled enough,
Am never looking back again,
Nothing will take me back to that futon,
I have worked harder to slide back,
Embraced...

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Here is my story, raw and uncut.....
     I was a DJ at a small gentleman's club - I loved music, and so I had an "ear" for mixing 
tracks, plus with...

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his last gasp was quite lengthy
trying to go out with a bang as usual
a rationalist manifesto covering his face
accompanied by a cotton field work song
his grip went slack under the torrent of images
fortunes have been...

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Crossroads

I woke up this morning with a question on my mind
What the Hell am I going to do with my life
I am sleeping on a futon in the basement at a friend’s
All because I fell...

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It’s days like this that my mind returns to Raleigh

The pitch, sandy futon, and our intertwined deviant legs

Pushing for a fix

I for one goal, you for another


I would be more aware by the end of...

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White wood so cheap
	to bring the price low
a bargain for those who
	cannot afford anything more

stain of rich brown
	to appear walnut be
applied yet so thin
	that no one fooled is

mattress of batting hard
	coarse fabric covered in
comfort having...

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Similar sounds and letter alliteration are literally leaping and precipitously punctuating the 
perforated pages of my mired, muddled mind.. 
     Making mental maps for future fun in meditation mired muse, meticulously...

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Teeth freed late of jaw
Catch feign vulture caw
Keep time with thumb gum massage.
Three jiggers to rinse
Fire stick of incense
Lifted induced camouflage.

Shirt off shorts glued on
Vision of futon
Once upon a time life rocked.
Tent wants repairing
Sirens shrill...

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Lynn Mibell and I slept
on a flattened futon and dreamt
of better days. Days when her 
dear brother was not dying of AIDS.

Days when our love life flourished.
When we walked hand in hand
along the bold face...

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For Matt Caliri's contest-that's not my elephant.

"That's not my elephant, Ella"
You have to sell this junk by yourself.
The faster the better.
I have the second graders coming by for a tour of the museum later, so...

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30.

For to say I see beyond your face
To a soul on fire is but a trace
To how deep we interlace
Entwined bodies golden grace

We began our habitation on the floor
Old futon mattress, bedroom no door.
The classic...

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I'm getting married
to man who only thinks of me as a Friend
I sit here and watch you leave with your friends
While I sit here on this lonely Futon 
Waiting for you
You say I'm not your...

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Von Neuman must have broken a lot of pencils
 writing his mathematische grundlagen der
 quantenmechanik.

 it is 500 pages i could have said it in three words
 ..things come undone...

 like in my rum and...

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Farewell to our futon.
Oh, my gratitude runs deep 
For all the years you've given us
Or guests the gift of sleep.

Yes, you were tough to open
And a bigger pain to close.
You also scratched our wall up,
But...

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