Long Garbo Poems

IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY: LXXX -  Bang! Bang! Who Shot Me Down like an Un-licensed Pariah 
Dog ! Follow Up !

IF ever I had a country, a country without a dim shadow...

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Puttin on the Ritz - Just for You

Remember when I used to be dead broke,
and everyone laughed cause my dreams were a big joke?
Well I married a rich fellow and I’m rolling in dough.
Now I’m...

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Awakening early 
just before sunrise
to exquisite sounds
of the morning refrain

Blackbird sweetly 
offers his love
with his passionate tune
surely making her swoon

How could she resist
this morning opera
each wistful aria
expressing his love

Flying towards her
with hope in his heart
plans...

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Unjust Kingdom

We journeyed through a transcendental meditation.
Walking away from the pharmaceutical drugs.
To try a holistic herb, ancient and true.
That lifts ones spirits when one is feeling blue.

Did you notice the angel on the cloud puffing...

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Dark serene
Alone and together
My world in chaos
Vocational anxiety
Financial sobriety
Yet all matters not
As I look to my right
Gaze at my Gucci
Amazed by her will
Her zest for life
Amidst physical turmoil
A ruthless journey
Made tolerable and enjoyable
By quintessential Alpha...

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A girl in the crowd takes a selfie.
Her tam o’shanter sparkles
because of the fireworks going off
in the background, and because it has glitter.
At the gates of Moscow
weary French troops run away
hands over their ears, as...

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I sat listening intently to the tune the band played
The words the singer sang were the nicest I had heard

Talked about hidden love, about the heartache and disaster
Then I saw him a dashing young man,...

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I wish I were a baggage to abandon.
I wish I were a hold-all to un-hold,
With no handle for some bloke to put his hand on
Or to plant a snotty kiss that leaves me cold …

I...

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A girl in the crowd takes a selfie.
Her tam o’shanter sparkles
because of the fireworks going off
in the background.
At the gates of Moscow
Tchaikovsky runs away
hands over his ears.
The girl with the cell
is as pretty as her...

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Fred Astaire was king of tap
Biggie Smalls was huge in rap
Carson (Johnny)ruled TV
Dylan’s songs are poetry
Elvis made the girls all swoon
Frank Sinatra loved to croon
Greta Garbo hid from sight
Hitchcock gave us all a fright
Isaac Hayes’...

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We had;
Interlude and
of Mice and men.
   A star is born and
Gone with the wind.

   A child bride and
The Wizard of Oz.
   Cocaine Fiends and
Sweeney Todd.

   The Jaguar...

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Lightening bugs flash, 
like the worn celluloid images of old movies,
I sit beneath a great Greta Garbo moon.
I am the heroine of this short.
The dew point drops,
Mists rise.
Crickets chirp.
Muskwats buzz.
Loons ululate and wail.

My dialogue,
The click...

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Greta Garbo
by R.e. Taylor

I know you wish to be anonymous
To never be seen again
But the world will not allow that to happen
I know it may be presumptuous of me to say
At one time, you were...

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"Everyone of us live our life just once,
if we are honest, to live once is enough."

                  ...

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You just don’t appreciate me
And all the things I do
When I don’t come home until late
I do it all for you

I treat you like a movie star
After two days I call you on the phone
Actually...

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“Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it. ”

                   ...

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I stand in front of the mirror
Trying to look a dish
Puckering up the lips
Practicing for a kiss

I half close my eyes
For the Greta Garbo look
I don’t look a bit like
the siren in a book

Looks more...

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I'll never meet Cronkite,
Monroe, Garbo, Einstein, Epstein,
Bogart, Newman,Truman, but
wish I knew what they knew,
known?
wished I'd known,

tenses and I pretend I know them
but
I haven't got a clue as if you
the last of yesterday
know or knew them...

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