Long Hardware store Poems

My eyes stare straight,
fixated on something in the distance, 
humming a song that would send chills,
if you ever got the chance to listen.

A padded cell and a straitjacket,
the doctor giving one of his ‘visits,’
his moans...

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This house belonged to grandfather Rudolph,
though its history goes much further back,
all the way to the eighteen seventies,
when to this vast land Herbert Blake did trek.

It had once been a grand ranch homestead,
centerpiece of sixteen...

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>Sunday – shop – or – not, until you drop.

I heard it on TV one night.  
So I knew it must be right.
MP’s debating seriously.  
Whatever could be that emergency?

Was Sunday shopping, oh...

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Can I keep him, please, dear mother?
     I found him down the road.
I've been to all the neighbors,
     And this is what I'm told.
"That's not my dog...

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December  2nd 2013 4:00 am (o400)

Detoxing from drugs pychotrophically speaking
My couch was an aroma of deadened sweat too putrid to mention
You came to call not long after I thought I was pregnant by my...

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I: in the 70s

At sixteen, looking through a magazine,
I came across the picture of a girl
whose character was Mary Ellen in
“The Waltons” show I watched on Thursday nights.
Her look was that of mine when I...

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In a moment of understandable frustration with me,
My wife demanded to know what I really believed in.
I thought for a minute, tear glands filling,
"The essential goodness of my parents."

My mother was a child of the...

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One Horse Town


The boardwalks full of people only two stood in the street.
The showdown of the century counting down to thirty feet.

Black Bart said this towns too small for you and I to both be...

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Getting back to plaintiff's grip
I wasn't guilty is my quip
the newest Model on the floor
a flagrant entry of encore!

And littleness became the store
that when a tiny bolt could score
available, but now the door
is only open,...

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Summer meant playing with cousins
Until the fireflies started to dance and glide
Soaring just beyond our small hands
And, then, sometimes reaching the end
Of a journey inside a Mason jar

Summer meant riding with the window down
In a...

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It was on one Tuesday arvo shopping at the hardware store,
When I noticed Vicar Prendegast come walking through the door,
He walked up to the counter with a strained look on his face,
I could see that...

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One of the oldest from of advertising the  world has ever seen
Based on reputation of a person, either good or bad
It can be kind of slow or right threw a town like wildfire
Put one...

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because…

the hardware store

owner smirked 

when he collected 

my money order

to pay the utility bill

to get the lights turned 

back on.

 

because…

I slept on a worn out

mattress on the floor,

in a bedroom shared

with my older brother

who...

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Today a man knocked on my door and asked for a small donation
towards the local swimming pool. I gave him a glass of water!

I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not too...

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Today a man knocked on my door and asked
for a small donation towards the local swimming
pool. I gave him a glass of water!

I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm
not too sure!

A recent...

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There, in the kitchen of this modest dwelling,
A cheerful room, in spite of its lack of grandness
Home to the little family
Who gathered together each evening
For string beans and mashed potatoes,
Eating with relish at the rectangle...

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If you're lookin' fer home cooked fixin's, stop by Flo's Café and Deli!
Her meatloaf, smashed pertaters and cherry pie will delight yer belly!
She's located catty-cornered across the street from Buford's Hardware Store.
Flo's been caterin' to...

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Let’s get this straight, they are not green, they’re just like us instead,
So, let me introduce you to, the Alien called Fred.

He’s from the planet Zod, a trillion miles away
And when he passed the planet...

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I watched the farmer do daily chores, year after year.
On hot days, those of snow, each morning he was here
before lavender light of dawn, he checked on his crops
tended to all the animals and fed...

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Poor little Zena zebra was feeling oh so sad
She was born an albino, which made her look bad

Zena desperately wanted to fit in with the others
And have a stripy body like her sisters and brothers

Zena...

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Hagerstown, Indiana

I strolled my hometown Main Street today (about a quarter mile).
Many happy memories flooded my soul, causing me to smile.
A friendly bench beckoned me and I sat awhile to ponder,
The past I left so...

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Sometimes you just don’t belong 

I chose to be me and
found out just how hard it is
Kicking pebbles to the curb,
watching daydreams shattered
when the impact of truth
becomes a mirror I’d just rather break (who needs...

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The crop has been harvested, the moon has turned red. 
All our chores are now finished, the cows have been fed. 
Time to put on our best blue jeans, spit polish our boots. 
Let down...

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Here is the tale of a Jewish hardware-store man
   who guards the flame of his faith as best he can
in a remote corner of the Upper Midwest
   where the count of...

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well it's 2026
and Boogie jam Bowgo
is in the mix
rap out towgo and bluey jam bustsas
flankin on Chicco's
and the Drab Muthacluccias
beggin on beanie
she aint smiling
her freind Chick-willa
my fast fone dialin
backbitting hussy
she down with what ever
switching in...

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