Long Gossipy Poems

Unquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI  Part One

Be they so named or not in these here parts, visions of shrieking furies with Gorgon heads and...

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Greener Pastures For Little Girl

Good Morning! Here’s some latest development on the homefront….
It is the latest  interesting reading about some juvenile outcome…..

What do you know, that promising little girl you and I both well...

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Old Mr. Nicholson
totters across the town square
to the barbershop where
Clive has cut his hair
for the last forty years or so

Not hardly needing
even a trim
but pretending
he has a reason besides
the gossip waiting within

Inside, the shop smells...

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any superstitious peasants 
out there tonight
TV junkies gossipy groupies
smooth talking saxophonists
am I talking too fast
for couple's therapy
uh oh here comes
another scar on my head
the optimist would say
the scar of opportunity
fortunately digression is an art
that never...

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The unicorn magician with the slanted eye 
Let out a peep, a whistle, a plaintive sigh.
Alerting two idiot villagers, name of Guthrie and Tie.
That things were changing for the worst, bye and bye

The unicorn magician...

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He saw several loving what they heard and it bothered him.
They were dancing and having a grand ole
thyme. People clapping, dancing, getting along and singing along with the music.
It bothered him , I mean it...

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To soften his adolescent growing pains
he was encouraged (can’t recall by whom)
to take up painting – to make a name 
for himself, they said. When that failed, 
and miserably, he took up drinking
which he likened...

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Stained glass windows
White candles
Hard wooden pews
Beautiful hymns

A congregation scrubbed clean,
ready to hear
the ordained one.
He is not a humble man,
fond of rebuking 
those who oppose him.
You probably didn’t see him 
passionately kissing his secretary.
But I did!

The...

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The programs for them wondrously keen,
BBC celebrates more than Queen
Nice expression they don’t look twice at
For their Main News and adored broadcasts;
At such times A Most Unwelcome Gnat;
The Sympathizing Staff for Good Blasts!

BBC would eat...

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And suddenly, 50 was  here, all the music got
louder, all the drivers for younger.  My hair
was on a farewell tour, visiting the sink and the
shower more than my head.  The kids got...

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Three old crows were standing head-to-head
Conversing in the hallway between the classes
Wondering who they were dissing, with dread,
I knew fellow teachers they thought jacka**es,

And, occasionally, I had been on their hit list
Every workplace has a...

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My Grandmère and I have long, gossipy conversations,
where we fall into our own chatty, slumber party rhythms.

She’s met or knows everyone important, and people tell her things.

They DM her or whisper secrets of lives ordered...

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Quite awful had been the gossip:
About a widening girl's hip.
"Why would it not Holy Men trip
And apart the toughest skirt rip?"

Quite idle had been the gossip:
About Eves' wears eyes could off strip;
From speaker worker's sweat...

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What is this atrocity,
What is this uniquely unparalleled monstrosity,
What is this element with undefined velocity,
What is this singular, peerless challenger of viscosity!


What is this implement: almost an oddity,
What is this matter, a goofy comedy?
What is...

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we've all done it
or we used to do it
nowadays we can feign 
sending messages

in touch-and-go back streets
in dodgy areas at night
in the office to appear 
being busy

to avoid babbling 
with a colleague
to avoid a bothersome
old...

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He said she said we did and they were.
My brain has shut down.
Slammed shut with a banging sound.
Clang!

I am sure this is fascinating talk for the
townies who have lived in this small town
forever and also...

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From the wrecks of time
and life's garbage heap,
the Lily sprouts; nurtured 
by the spittle of life's deceit,
energized, fanned by the fierceness
of the gossipy winds.
Burrowing through the slime and
grime of nothingness.
Clambering 
over the 
rot of rejection,...

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It is a stand outside and shout “whee” kind of day
The sun is brightly shining, the squirrels out to play,

The smell of freshly mown grass plays with the breeze
I can measure the happiness by the...

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Every thing was fine.
No one complained, and then
one fated day the Kooka burra's came..
People who never learned to keep in their own lane.
They never read our regs., which is very plain,
at first they claimed one...

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I
AM NO WOMAN'S FRIEND
AND COUNT NONE AS CONFIDANTE
THEY ARE BASELESS, PETTY, GOSSIPY BEINGS
WITH NARY AN EXCEPTION.
THEY HOLD NO APPEAL.
THERE IS NO AFFILIATING SPIRIT,
NO URGE TO SHARE
OR PRETEND THAT HUSHED DISCOURSE
IS RELEVANT.



I
PREFER THE MALE OF THE...

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