Long Gould Poems

Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine

     ("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered 
after assassinating Julius Caesar.

     Alternatively...

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It is a strange dream
in which an animal rights advocate
is swamped with questions
from Chief Justice Roberts.

A vicious dog,
trained to attack humans 
with politically incorrect audacity
to trespass against his white supremacist Master,
has been imprisoned
and sentenced to...

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The monumental bane of OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder

As origin of Homo Sapien species surged ahead,
harboring nascent predominance
asper said primate reproductively bred,
(albeit via incremental fits and starts)
evolutionary forebears didst dread
Tom Tom Club former members
an American...

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Four years ago today
9/11 rang in our ears
Our Nation still cries a river
Into a sea of tears

Patrick Driscoll 70, was retired
Jane Folger 73, retired as well
Toshiya Kuge was a student
When the Twin Towers fell

Husbands and...

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If function is king, then there aren’t any Types,
but the living show us that’s simply not true.
The class tree is ordered according to forms
and not by the functions a critter can do.

So here’s a conundrum...

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"FOURTH OF JULY ON A GARGOYLE"


fourth of July, alone in a 
mad box down by the terrace 
where single men, single 
women, senior citizens, 
children, lovers, boyfriends, 
girlfriends, married couples 
and families barbecue. can 
you...

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"THESE CITY EYES"


ex-wives and mothers watching 
from their porches as they 
wait for child support.
fathers who don't see their 
children but murder 
themselves to pay for that 
bitch's lifestyle return 
home.
down the street cars fight...

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“ALONE WITH A CHAIR”


I could never express how it 
feels, walking outside at 3 
in the morning, wrapped 
inside the night air. I’m in 
my shorts, without a shirt. 
without the sun, you can see...

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“REUNITED”


I remember a time in my life
where I was without food, a 
roof and a woman. I had a car 
though, and a job. the nights 
carried the smoke from my 
cigarettes and conversations 
from...

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"LOVE POEM TO A GIRL FROM POMONA"


15 years ago I met a girl
from Pomona.
I was a man, she was a kid,
and the colors from those
intersection lights were
green, yellow and red.
my music from my ride played...

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The Tower

When I look at pictures I begin to cry
I ask questions to myself why oh why
Home should be safe it should be a haven
With walkways you are proud of and steady even paving
The night...

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timing is everything
time now to say it,
had 11, 77, and 175
had what you had,
been shown what you saw,
heard what you heard,
told what you told,
they'd have done
what you did

still, no matter
self-destiny is
inherent in us all,
most apparent...

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“MARATHON OF DEMONS”


here I am again standing with 
the lonely, the shattered, 
the children of the night.
the possibilities are gone, 
the building of the 
structures is gone. Gould for 
the moment is silent, the 
demons...

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Born Joseph Ferdinand Gould, in Norwood Massachusetts, 1889.
A 1911 graduate of Harvard, and a
Greenwich village Bohemian from 1916 until 1957,
and the time of his death at age 68.
Joe was a filthy and disgusting man, who...

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I'm a cop and my name is Dick Tracy.
A lot of cops are corrupt but not me.
I can't be bought just like Eliot Ness.
Because of crime, this city is a mess.
A Crime Lord runs this...

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I've never been a mean girl.
It's simply not my style.
But every fault I find in him,
Makes me want to smile.

I giggle when he flounders,
When he gets caught, in another lie
It makes my day so see...

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"EXTRA, EXTRA"



the frogs lose themselves on the green and brown colored 
grass.
write enter on places where there is no
entrance,
find the skull and bones and make them your
remedy,
watch the tears fall from the great Dane as...

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Protean nucleic processes
  polemic yield
explosive diversification
  punctuated equilibrium
  Stephen J. Gould
  Paleontological hypothesis
  spawning sudden flora and fauna
  competed against diametrically opposed diatribe
  pairing diehard Religionists
  versus...

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"THE BLADE OVER THE TAPE"


as the breeze
dances on my
face,
the smoke from
my cigarette finds
love in the sky.

as the breeze
dances on my
face,
Gould plays the
Goldberg Variations.
 
as the breeze
dances on my
face,
Bukowski's words
find home in
my blood.

as the breeze
dances on...

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Mother Says I AM ---THE DAILY ENCOURAGING OF EMMIT GREEN

Everyday;
My mama says;
To me, this;
This is "who you are"
No matter what the world says;
This is what I am....

I am brave
I am strong
I am kind
I am smart
I...

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"DEVASTATION"


Glenn Gould wrote countless
masterpieces.

I listen daily.

imagine if he had married, 
if he had had children, 
if he had listened to every 
piece of bull-shit given to 
him by the one that would 
claim she loved...

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As I look into the vast ocean of wight,
here in the shadows of wont right,
left amongst the myriad mellifluously,
will you still hold a monstera like me?

To be this maiden fair — to care about myself,
ore...

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"AS THE NIGHTS PASS"


as the nights bring 
our reality into view, 
you can't help being 
proud that life has 
repeated as you knew 
it always would. 
some call this arrogance, 
I call it experience. 
your...

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"A COFFIN IN DAYLIGHT"


we share the same sadness.
I toss and turn on a blue
sheet with shades drawn
and walls closing in.
I’ve been here before but
this time I’ve chosen to
make it about her.
words are all I have...

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"the fighting act is the final act"


Buzz Lightyear under the elephant.
the bear on an air mattress.
Gould locked in a rectangular box.
the young man behind the old man.

what they try to kill.

those addicted to the crowd...

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