Long Gumball Poems

A Dragon Squirrel Brigade

Dragon got home from the Army, wanting to be totally, in control.
He wanted to be a Drill Sergeant, to teach the recruits, to be bold.
He gave them all a blankie, and a...

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this is the story of a special place in my life;

In my family home of 50 years
In the Queens suburbs of N.Y.C.
There was a special place that saw
the bulk of my laughter, and my tears
That...

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This summer was so crazy with a drought but still where mosquitoes multiplied.
And we’re leaving behind a hurricane that attacked the Midwest from all sides.
The crops were lost as months of over 100-degree temperatures, drove...

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THE CHECKOUT LINE

I made the phone call
he's holdin got the work. 
We gotta have the "ins" this time, 
said he wouldn't front me dirt. 
What we got between us 
still ain't enough to score
Let's hit...

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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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1. before 16 but after 14

2. 15 cents is not enough to get a gumball in a 25 cent gumball machine, nor is it the way
to pronounce correctly the name of famous rapper “50 cent”

3....

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(iv)
We were half-way to Iowa and lethargy was not far
behind us. He had a late start but we all know lethargy
is a health freak and would never drink 64 oz frozen
soda-pops which means he doesn’t...

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Breathy voice from lips cherry red
Another piece of candy for my tongue to tread 
A twist of the wrist and a quarter or two 
Gives me a another piece for my mouth to chew

Oh I...

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Do you remember when you told me that story
of all the Planets in the sky and how they all
had different jobs and had different people they
were in charge of? That Uranus was a magician
and he...

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Smitty isn't Schulte.
He doesn't drive a Cadillac 
and doesn't hit his wife 
often any more.
Schulte, on the other hand,
drives a Cadillac
and hits his wife 
usually on weekends
for no good reason.
He's been doing that for 
more...

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            Tom Servo decides to enslave Mike and Crow, Gypsy and Cambot. Again.

The pressure of the bad movie 
and the ideas it gave him....

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There stood that tall gumball machine
With those colorful round bubblegum balls
With the clear glass pedestal encasing circular rings
So you can watch the gumball fall

In his eight-year-old little hands
He held the magic that could make a...

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Penny candy once was a penny
Back when I was just a little pat
I'd run to the local grocery store
Where the gumball machine was at!

My eyes were so wide with excitement
I thought they would pop from...

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Journey Of Faith

From the smallest atom
to the largest galaxy
everything is unwinding
with precisely perfect timing
stories unfolding, poems rhyming
birds flying in the sky
comets passing closely by
children pointing and smiling
growing old we're slowly dieing
prophets warning
babies crying 
chicken in...

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Two toddler toys without pieces and a gumball machine.
Not kid friendly in this beauty shop at all.
I look swiftly around. Most of the patrons are older than I am.
And I am old.

I am always amazed...

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Another year has passed
but it is here at last
little chick of springtime
you turn back the clock time
pink cheeks of rose bloom
is your family heirloom
frolic on your day of glory
tell me a childhood story
you are so...

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