Long Gizzard Poems

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of...

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Thank-YOU POETRYSOUP Family, Thank-YOU very Much YOUR POETRYSOUP brother...HG
School Lunch --- Kid Munch --- Dane Ann
Sleepy --- Snooze Buffoon --- Dane Ann
Stink --- Lizard Gizzard --- Dane Ann
Stunned --- Dazed Amazement --- Dane Ann
Terrific ---...

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Jesus Spends the Day Slitting Gizzards

By Elton Camp

Jesus came to this town one month ago.
At first he found the going rather slow.
What he said made no sense to most.
Little accomplishment could he boast.

Were it not...

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Hold the trod, limit the space
The offspring's of Tuareg Cowhead cut my heels
The breaks on the hind been slammed
I break to a halt, he breaks to a sprint
Wagere, if you skip by the race
Render it...

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THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS 

Thanksgiving has now come and gone,
But we’ve still got turkey by the pound,
So the question now becomes,
What leftover recipes can be found?

We can have turkey tetrazzini,
Turkey chili with lots of beanies,
Turkey chow mein,
Turkey...

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BELOW AND ABOVE THE SEAS SURF FACE

Gone are the fishers pulling Lugs; the Gull its gizzard rusty hooked; 
and barbed, limit its shelled Limpet supply as blown sand creeps;
smart gulls dunk and dip, clean away...

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A RECALL
On that vale of thorn
Abreast we ambled.
Un-frazzled, to the hawthorn
We held.
Though a twinge we felt the 
Haw we sought, and heyday we
Dreamed of.
Out of vague future luminous dreams
We hewed.
Though nadir soared, and hope in...

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The house is boiled cabbage
goose fat, gizzard stew, and beets.
Windows steam and simmer,
you can write your name on the glass
winter or summer.

If you can live among rutabaga
or borscht; if pickled eggs haunt your palate
then this...

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Ol' Bob was nearin' eighty when he laid down on his bed.
The bunkhouse seemed a lonely place to wind up cold and dead.

I asked ol' Bob to tell me if he thought his time was...

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May tranquility reign and grace your Thanksgiving board this year,
As you thank the Good Lord for all the blessings you hold dear!

I pray that it will be a time of good cheer and not a...

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Those born unto a family large will know whereof I speak.
When you sat at table, to get your fill there was a technique!
During Pa's interminable grace, bellies would begin to growl,
Anticipating the meat and taters...

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The Carcass

The best part of the meal, 
the bones, the things others throw away. 
The wingtips, the neck, the gizzard, the lizard...
a fowl needs to be cooked and stewed. 

A bit of broth, a giant...

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Balderdash
I will not listen to iris eyes,
those lids for covers; frightened lies.
And cannot hear the nostril's fear
that calls you to me over here.

Balderdash 
is all I'll say.
And keep my distance
and my way

Balderdash
I will not listen...

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Party invitations popped up in everyone’s hand.
The Wizard invited everyone special in the land.
With magic galore, it was destined to be grand.
He made sure good fairies and elves were banned.

To respond they were invited to...

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Lame sunrises and midday sunsets
Fangs in words and perils in laughters
Sweet archs of smiling fires and silky shouts in talking forests 
I come from the bitter of cobstones paved down the coalfield 

Broken lutes and...

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Made a batch of cornbread Saturday morning.

Mixed the cornbread with clams and nuts to make stuffing.

Surrounded and filled the turkey with onions and stuffing;

Having done my part there, my wife did the cooking.

I chopped up...

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The snow was blowin' and the cows roamed free
Outside Amarillo in fifty three.

It was Christmas eve, my fingers was froze -
I swore and cussed at this life I had chose.

Then, of a sudden, there appeared...

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And this is a sad carol,
Our voice of grief every yuletide,
And our song of plea and prayer, 
Now and in every Nativity hereafter.

A partridge, two turtle doves,
Three French hens and four birds a-calling,
Yet on the...

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Against the marble sunlight 
I limped into the clearing;
Feathers blood-thick
From the musket.

Those silly bouncing 
Boats behind me,
Brass buckles bobbing 
Out of the thicket,
Turning my Thursday into a nightmare.

I collapse into the scorch-white 
Grass of the...

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So, you want to know what love is my son
Well, of course, it happens with just that one
Who has the chemistry the same as you
And has that look  that says come here, please do
Now...

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My swimming pool is full of fur, pee, and dog poo.
Your dogs contaminate my pool and it's because of you.
Every day while I'm at work, you use my pool to bathe your twenty-five mutts.
When I...

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Witchy Pooh stirred her stew in a cauldron pot
The Pot smelled like hell
The contents stank a lot

Long Tongue of Lizard, Pigs Gizzard
Dogs Tails, and Nose or two
Eye of Cat, Fancy that
I would not, would you?

Witchy...

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To die with dignity
in the midst of indignant pain

Eyes clenched, face contorted
Knowing you're at your end
Semi toothless, wrinkled
Mottled with brown age spots
Turkey gizzard neck
Eyes darting to and fro
Not fooled
By medical euphemisms
Not fooled by words
of false...

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The ostrich is surely a curious bird
Composed of elements rather absurd
Overstuffed body, resting on twigs for legs
Babies hatch in dump nests of 50+ eggs
  Weighing as much as three pounds each
  ~ No...

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Me like a speck in the gizzard of mother earth,
   Sitting coldly, my short time, waiting to be grind,
Didn't I wear any power? embracing odd of all unpleasant kind,
 My faith like dry...

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