Long Heckle Poems

"Angels & Demons"




The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson 
Life spent in The Hard Sell

Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia 
mouth sucking a loaded gun

blue ribbonned and veined
pulsing electricity 
from heart to lung to brain

you’re a...

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caught in the crossfire, of well-hidden snipers
that aim through the lens, of venomous vipers
paralysed by poison, blinded by spies
unarmed victims, enemies in disguise
shadows that taunt us, ghosts we let haunt us
vanish in the light, of...

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"Freedom's Lament"

Oh sweet Freedom how quick you have gone from Groom to Widower.
How saddened are those who succumbed and labored so freed we could all be after Freedom had so long toiled and quarried to...

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Waiting for bubbles 
Here on the pitch 
Hope there will be no trouble 
From Liverpool being in a winning niche 
Known for being paper back writers 
And always having the attitude of being fighters 
The...

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Last night I dreamt
I haven’t had a dream in Christ knows how long
I dreamt a dream that shook my soul
 
I dreamt of the glorious uncontrollable freedom I once knew
Of an old friend estranged
Living
Breathing
Two blocks...

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Two of the wackiest guys I know,
	live two doors down, 
		           one flight below

Tall is one, the other is short
One chirps loud all the time...

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Two of the wackiest guys I know,
	live two doors down, 
		           one flight below

Tall is one, the other is short
One chirps loud all the time...

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I love living in the Arctic
The cold I find so cathartic
But you must beware
I'm bi-polar bear
If crossed I can be anarchic

I'm really a huge white bi-polar bear
You can take my photograph, laugh and stare
But if...

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BI-POLAR BEAR COLLABORATION WITH JAN ALLISON


I love living in the Arctic
The cold I find so cathartic
But you must beware
I'm bi-polar bear
If crossed I can be anarchic

I'm really a huge white bi-polar bear
You can take my...

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Feel the pulse of the spouse in a house
You thought you knew
Until your mouth turned into the louse
You became as fantasies ate you up anew.

Guilt on stilts divorced
Sombre sentiments in the mind
Imbued with dark thoughts...

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Evil broiled him changing his thoughts, and he perceived not
The slow desiccation of his mind, how his brain infected rot
From the poison of pride! More and more putrid he became
Despising his brother for doing good,...

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abominate, abhor, abuse, admonish, adumbrate, afflict, advance,
agitate, agonize, alcohol, announce, approach, awaken, bait, bark,
bawl, bedamn, bedevil, berate, betoken, bluster, bode, bother, break,
brew, browbeat, bully, caution, censure, chide, clutter, comminate,
complain, complicate, confuse, cow, crucify, DAD, damage,...

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"Keynote"



"hand me your keys," 

she says smiling coolly
into his breeze

throwing getaway notes
out the window 

the sharp beaked blackbirds
flee scurrilously 

back where they belong
in the past, 

broken behind 
their token barriers

Heckle 'n Jeckle
Comic strip characters 

yapping...

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We stand on the moving staircase of life
unable to harness the aging process which
eats away the moments of our days
unable to stop the ticking timepieces
that heckle us as we go through this thing
known as existence..
unable...

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College

Study in your little garret.
Try, in your earnest youth,
To learn the ins/outs
Of mice and men, stars and storms
And the ways of your own future heart.
Fear and Motivation
Await just beyond the ivy covered walls;
So take this...

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Tap, tippy tap, tap, you sit there, and you type.
You’ve spewed all sorts of filth, that’s fine, I found the wipes.
All wretched, gnarled and empty, you poured onto that page.
Did you feel some satisfaction, while...

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I do not need a cup of tea.
I do not need you're sympathy.
I don't need you to be obtuse.
I just need a cup of Seuss.

The nib, the nub the flub a dub.
A ring of truth...

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To those who harrass; the yobos we call bullies
I'd gladly string you up by the seat of your woolies
Then from a barn rafter
You would hear my laughter
While swinging overhead from ropes and pulleys

I'd stuff each...

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The Boardwalk

Whistles, jeers
Unrelenting young men
Ladies in swimsuits sigh while passing by

Screams from the Wild Mouse
Creaking ominously against summer skies
What happens if it fails to make that turn?

Spinning wheels, colorful trophies
“Step right up and try your...

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Along a summer road of eternal dust
that flies in the face of poverty and disdain
red and hardened faces with hands
as brown as the shine on shoes that
at one time reflected in their youthful faces
oily overalls...

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Comprehending life,
understand religions.
Dealing with strife.
Forgiveness for sins.
Tells us how to live,
salvation to be dealt.
Your life you give.
Happiness be felt.
Before giving faith's call,
recognize a similitude.
A truth found in all,
research will conclude.
Love your facade,
your chosen deity.
Love people...

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Heckle and Jeckle, jellyroll jam,
Ponce de Leon’s Fountain of Youth.
Little kids like to eat green eggs and ham;
So do you – now tell me the truth!

One fish, two fish, red, white and blue fish,
Old glory...

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Adventures in paradise,

Upon hillsides paved in stone
mysterious moments lie 
freed from pretense
and the heckle of the bird

skinny dipping in the sea
making love 
naked 
in, a wave of you
out, a rush of me

caffè per due
hands grasping...

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I had a neighbor who had some
mental instability concerns
Whether he was a threat to us
we were unable to discern
He would have a fire burning
in the middle of the night
and shoot off his gun night or...

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Misshapen thoughts  

Held beyond oblivion,
shackles cut the flow,
chains of corroded memories
wrapped tightly 
around my windmill brain
Squeezing life, in or out,
pooling on a jagged earth
Grimacing contorted gestures
and pointed fingers heckle
as I am dragged through the...

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