Long Garbage disposal Poems

Democratic pursuits of healthy constitutions
and health policy discipline
are often associated with growing compassion,
global enlightenment values
for well-being and happiness,

And peace and happiness, in turn,
associated with prosperity, both natural and spiritual wealth,
never one without the other.

This historical...

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Highlights from Highland Manor

Courtesy Goofus and Gallant 
who began their broadly-drawn 
moral plays in the 1950s, 
initially depicted as identical twins,
but later on, editors for Highlights 
indicated the two were brothers, 
but not twins, and...

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Once again, the missus did volunteer yours truly as master of ceremonies...,

when triumvirate (Kathleen Bergen,
Pamela Floreen, and Richard Jett)
constitute Grosse and Quade
real estate management cutting crew
for Highland Manor Apartments in Schwenksville
conduct requisite yearly property inspection
(the...

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Too many lives are floating in this flood wave

Mon Ami,

I am honored to be included in your exposition
Theological border walls

You were opening your glittering purse, 
A set of cloth line clips,

I was gazing there
From a...

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Requisite inspection November 24th, 2020 at Apartment B44

Countdown triggers nails
bitten down to quick
geesh if only Mary Poppins
could pull off cheap trick
or think super tramping Glinda courtesy
film Wizard of Oz
Good Witch of the North
riding at light...

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written a long time ago

Aghast
Sans shutting the dresser fast
Lest drawing to cloths to the past.

Akin to dredging up sedimentary muck
That metaphors me whence getting stuck
During adolescence – which lasted decades 
each 'n to barreling driverless...

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Futile effort to plunger the clogged kitchen sink...
courtesy malfunctioning garbage disposal

which won't be removed
by onsite maintenance man
UNTIL/UNLESS 
fruit fly excreta wiped off
(impossible to access)
areas along bathroom and kitchen walls
so communicated "the warden."

Thus we (yours truly...

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How could you possibly smile
When everything came crashing down around you
And to forgive someone who would try 
To tear apart your family?

Why…
Why is it that every time I need to be saved
It’s always you who...

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"OBJECTIVE"



for some, 
things change and it usually 
leads to a heartbreak.
the garbage disposal still 
turns, 
the weeds still find a way to 
grow and 
it's all of what remains of a 
love that held promise.
the...

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dropping pennies down a garbage disposal
pretending that it is a wishing fountain of some sort
i am in a trance speaking nonsensical things
i am all out of sorts and i do not know why
at one time,...

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When we made a call it cost a thin dime
We had no paramedics or fancy defibrillators
We had no microwaves or food in a box
We had no trash-compactor or garbage disposal
We had no gas lawnmower or...

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Oh, what a hideous subject to cross my path,
Addition, subtraction, division, multiplication,
Percentages and fractions, those I can grasp,
But the rest, oh, I wish to throw you in the pit,
I can’t see your point of view...

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Jahore Pakistani kind of terrorist driving a Tahoe shooting into my home attempting to impersonate me gain royalties from my American poetry sorry my ancestors served Wwll Vietnam Korean Afghanistan Iraq for these reasons I...

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Twenty-five years 
since we agreed to this and still,
I vow to be there,  
just outside your line of sight,  
as you confidently mispronounce quinoa,
as you decide, again, that the best way 
to check...

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THE DARK LINE


when I woke there was a tiny rim of darkness
      right around the rising sun
       a warning that my feet
  ...

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The couch invisible,
 hidden by a body of mass

His gut rises 
His gigantic thighs
His round ankles
His flappy breasts
His chin rests on
a pillow of fat that
jiggles 

         ...

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town by the tracks
train goes through
day and night
a passenger train station
making the town flourish
money made from the station
brings tourists
easier to get to and from the city
and then it truly is up to you
where you want...

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