Long Half wit Poems

Have you ever played with it?
Even if just a bit.
Or thrown it.
Because you were in a snit.
Did you ever eat it?
Then throw out the pit.
Or caught it.
In your mitt.

Would you yell at it?
In a momentary...

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Various Heresies 9

Post-Nashville Covenant
by Michael R. Burch

We love our God.
We love our guns.
We despise the weak.
Don’t call us Huns!

We love our kids.
We love our schools.
We love our guns.
Don’t call us fools!

We pledge ourselves
to the strong...

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Various Heresies 10



God to Man, Contra Bataan
by Michael R. Burch

Earth, what-d’ya make of global warming?
Perth is endangered, the high seas storming.
Now all my creatures, from maggot to man
Know how it felt on the march to...

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...Duncan pulled free and sprinted, half-mad,
tears streaming as he made his retreat,
he’d never imagined hell this bad,
and didn’t much care if they were beat.
All he desired was to get clear,
to run himself far away from...

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My god, red bra, orange pants, and green socks, I’m making love to a traffic light.

Get on with it.

I can’t, where do I start.

What does it matter?

It matters a lot, if I start with your...

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Well if there's one thing I've learned in this lifetime of mine
Is that you got to KEEP AN OPEN MIND...
All you left handed people with them scientific brains
Might say well this and that can be...

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This could be Washington's View
Only slightly tongue in cheek
By Franklin Price
6/10/2017

This could be Washington's view
They've nothing better to do
Get Trump quickly out
They stamp and they shout
He's not here for me or for you

He's here for...

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Her hobby is collecting men
And most of them will do
The half-wit wonders out again
Who take the scenic view

Her beauty is expendable
Her feelings even more
Her duty is dependable
To those who run the store

She knows what lies...

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We all have one
one of our very own
there is no need to share
no sulking because we think that we were not given enough
no guilt because we think that we were given too much
we do not...

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Memories of whip-lashing words 
steeped me deep into a roil of rancid oil
my soul a weeping blistered sore  
my heart a gangrene amputee 
pus-green-memories rupture to plague me 
infection still oozes from core’s moaning...

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“Life is too short to be serious all the time. So, if you can’t laugh at yourself, call me and I’ll laugh at you.” - Anonymous

Silliness is not a curse, it's a blessing if you...

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HER:
I'm on this blind date.

HIM:
(Baby, it's cold outside).

HER:
This date AIN'T so great!

HIM:
(Baby, it's cold outside).

HER:
I'd rather be home...
and  watch  paint  dry!

It takes me five hours to get ready!
My Dior dress looks sexy...

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A map's a guide to find a world

    Knitted by angels,plain or pearled,

    And though you need a map as guide,

    Keep your own eyes open...

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Sleep still ain't shhtt
It's like my eyes n brain js quit
Maybe it helps sometimes..a bit
But my very own reality is soooo much more than legit.
If I never had to sleep,
I swear I'd stay running in...

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A map's a guide to find a world

Knitted by angels,plain or pearled,

And though you need a map as guide,

Keep your own eyes open wide.


I spent a year caught in a map

Until I found a big...

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While you weren't looking
While you were away
I climbed upon this mountain
To become the man I am today

You barely even noticed
The shape of your disgrace
I barely can remember
The look of your face

You would have let me...

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SANK---SHOE----ARY

One evening I sank into a sanctuary
I wasn't lonely although i was alone
I once visited a maudlin mortuary
and it made me wish i were nothing but bone

no flesh to sweat nor tears to shed
just my...

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You say I don't understand
You think what you said was pure gold and that I don't understand
Damn right I don't understand!

I don't understand how you can be so closed minded
Though on outer-look, from the perspective...

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How cool to sway naïves unaware,
Cooler still, a man of ken fair,
Even a wall were I persist,  
Not one— a half-wit puffed with air!

How pundits are plagued with spite’s tide,
Powerful with over-spilling pride,
Green horns...

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witch’s cauldron had bit of a hiccup today
ghosts and goblins laughed about it a bit
Halloween humor lives beyond the fray

Dracula’s ghost appeared with a happy hey
some of the warlocks and wizards had a fit
witch’s cauldron...

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[this was written to celebrate July 2nd, the halfway point of the year]


I've been called...
half pint
half wit
half awake
...and half a dozen other half-baked 
semi-insults that I have
half a mind 
to half-heartedly
ignore

I'm somewhere in the middle...

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About a year
to clear out the fear
of lying
down under the resounding thunder

About time
that I see the crimes
or find the time
to think

About time

I have seen the dream
and felt the pelt
of half wit help and fall down

gravitational...

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            Persona Non Grata

   She was persona non grata.
   But, very blessed to not know it.
   Her loving...

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My phone is being tapped; I’m sure of it
I called a government guy a nitwit
     Why did I post that blog?
     Am I in such a fog?
Perhaps...

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I don't see anybody else because they aren't you.

Somedays, my inspiration flows from my fingertips
Spiraling across pages
Eloquent and heart-wrenching
Other days, I scribble dead end sentences
Sloppy and without passion

The other days aren't you.

They do matter, those...

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