Long Ham sandwich Poems

In the fall of 1803,
The good ship, “The Queen Ann’s Knees”
Sailed out on the bounding seas.
Out of sight of the land
The captain looked grand
As with little ado
He spoke to his crew:
“Men, I’ve nothing to hide!
You...

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I am the Latch-Key Kid
When I go home, no tea on the table
I manage to make myself something to eat
The best that I am able

Mum and Dad at work till past eleven
So I just sit...

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Rock Stars who died at age 27 and the eerie coincidence that gave rise to some 
 
Jimi Hendrix-Played electric guitar with his teeth and left hand
Ripped through scales, held notes, used flames on stage...

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I see the photo and I am there,
taking the picture of my friends at
happy hour on Mabel’s porch,
Penny smiling, bare feet on railing board, 
Mabel holding up her cocktail glass,
Jeannie reading a book, and Sue
just...

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I had gone to this spot to pray
on a mid-afternoon street in the city
so busy the cars rarely make time to drive
as they sit for hours and hours on end
where I got the vague sense...

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Lungs that exhale lofty tones,
higher learning ... Mt. Olympus invocation
Elevated flung lightning bolts of linguistic illusion,
fancy worded dreams
floating ...
between 
open cranial empty spaces

Diaphragm skywalkers
verbally illuminating prosthetic landscapes
of skin-deep lip topography
Giving interval beeps 
of sonar, irregular...

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Some people find comfort in living the same day 
Every day doing what they did yesterday in the same way. 
I know a man who ate a ham sandwich with cheese plain 
No condiments every...

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I’m not saying it’s windy in Kansas but….
I saw a bald eagle get pushed by on his gut.
My house has landed upside down in an ant hill.
When a ham sandwich flew by I grabbed a...

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Hey Toadus!
Make
A ham sandwich
Such that I
May consume it
At my leisure…

Hey Toadus!
That
Ham sandwich
Is very good
Might I 
Have another?

Yes Sir
I will be quite glad
To make
As many
Ham sandwiches
As you desire

Hey Toadus!
Don’t patronize me, nor snicker contemptuously whilst my...

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I am on the railroad platform in Chicago waiting for my honey, my man.
He had run back to purchase me a sandwich with warm honey ham.
We are heading to California on a Zephyr that has...

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Decisions, Decisions.
Every single decision
Completely affecting another.
To stay at home,
Or run around town.
To call it a day,
Or stay up until six.

One decision, many directions.
Many paths created, many halted.
Your lifestyle can instantly change.
Work out for three hours,
Or...

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She is uppercase, Her within the within
out shines the sun, out paces the moon.

Thoughts of a ham sandwich come to a squealing halt
as I recall my low sodium diet -
She (too often to count) plays...

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40 Brown bags
Containing
Bottled water
Fruit juice 
Granola bar
 Bag of crackers
 Bag of pretzels
1 Baloney, Turkey or Ham sandwich.
Sunday after Thanksgiving
18 year old son decides
To feed the poor.
First he drove to Costco, 
Then prepped it all.
I...

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A rock, Air, rain, a ham sandwich,
we name it all into something.
Whatever the language
naming nothing makes it some-thing
gives it substance, a name.

What if you discovered an unknown
un-named no-thing?
Its nothingness cannot be described using any
comprehensible reference...

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It's like I am a stranger,
it's like I am not in the room,
it's like a ham sandwich without the ham;
the ham is on a butchers hook in old London town.
Peas pudding and jellied eels overflow,
stain...

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They were stopping everyone;
made us answer their questionnaires.
We were told that there were 
no right or wrong answers,
but weeks later - a letter.

Apparently the socially correct
had a beef with me.
A ham sandwich had recently been...

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look at the sun
loads of good fun
drink tropical punch
honeybaked ham sandwich for lunch
you have the same
your smile will remain
i am where i wanna be 
with you happy and free

look at the sky
blue to satisfy
it feels...

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The mayonnaise had turned.
The ham sandwich stuck to my tongue.
Then the sunlight turned from pale yellow
to dull dish-wash drizzle.

In town the sidewalks had turned slick.
An English friend I knew,
even before he turned into an American
turned...

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----Ad for a Siren----

job hunting siren
swims from cove to cove--
shark bosses need not apply


**Sept.16, 2010
Siren, send my check in the mail ;)


----Ad for a Siren 2----

tired of zim dollars,
siren's on the prowl~
oops wrong habitat



**King Triton...

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The mayonnaise has turned;
the ham sandwich sticks to my tongue.
The sun turned from yellow
to pewter while I ate lunch.
Dry turned to drizzle,
in town, the sky had turned slick.
Then an English friend I knew 
before turning...

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