Long Heineken Poems

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LOME – In an effort to topple a government set up to end a 24 year dictatorship rebellious army troops seized the state broadcasting station yesterday, then left the building but returned...

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Well, it all started when
Jim Beam bet Jack Daniels
that Captain Morgan
couldn't go out
and get himself
some Wild Turkey.
Old Fashioned, like Old Granddad,
Captain Morgan like some of you,
really enjoys his Southern Comfort.
But mostly in the form of...

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Sand in sheets
scuffing skin and reminding 
last nights attire reaks like bonfire
 a hundred days like this 
   a sea of endless laughs rolling 
     like filmreels infinitely looped...

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CORONA'S LOVE

I am the innocent victim 
held on house arrest 
eating one meal a day
no visitors,

I was put on lockdown 
for shaking hands, giving hugs, and kisses,
how can this be, as if I created the...

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As I took my initial sip of beer
in that dusky bar on that rainy 
night in Amsterdam,
I forgot about Van Gogh 
and the canals and tulips, 
and was right back in Smithtown.

The first beer I...

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One night as we pulled into the complex
Over the bumpy Colonial Arms exit,
Taj was sitting out on the brick stoop
With a single light blinking over his serious face
His mouth encased in a smoky cloud
And a...

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It crept upon me,
From the age of eight,
Who knew the depths of hell,
That that first taste would lead?
The singing and jokes,
The dancing and shouts,
It all seemed grand to me.

It ate deep inside,
My nervous system,
Trapped by...

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Children exceed the doves that we were given.
They are graces sent forth from God in heaven.

Despite one's capacity to innovate and teach,
Dawn facts to tutor, given in eloquent speech. 

Wisdom gained in life radiates alike the...

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You blaze so brightly, I’m afraid
It’s been dark here for so long
If I stray too far I’ll lose the light
If I stand too close I’ll be consumed
but I need the fire, it brings me to...

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My heart is telling me, go, go, go

Mind is saying no, no, no…


You don’t know if she loves him

How she feels when she’s with him

Would you risk breaking your heart…. 

Another Heineken the barman asked...

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Manic depressive

3 cups of coffee to keep me awake, astray the train of my thoughts.... Far away, have it your way.
Blue the state of my emotions, like a blue baby please medicate me into a...

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In my house
intoxicating liquid
lies unlocked
in a closet.

Subject to the anti-drug
campaign since birth,
I never thought 
to try it.

Why? Fear 
of addiction,
or of drunkenness?

Both are reversible,
and I am young.

The type 
evolves with dad:

First, red Burgundy wine
then a...

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5:30 AM on a Monday 
It doesn’t get much worse than this
Up all night partying for what I don’t know
Everyone is gone now I am alone with my beer
Inebriated and toxic I am a danger...

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Hominy

Two Sainted today
Both living but I don’t know the rules
It appears the world has gathered in Rome
I am frozen in time
In a smoking room at Schiphol
The realisation of an out of date passport
11pm last night
...

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A shot of jack would do me just fine,
with an ice cold Heineken, sublime
and for all of my little senoritas,
an endless fountain of margaritas.
It's gonna get hot tonight. 
 
Yeah it's gonna get hot tonight.
A...

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Her homeless young lady with three little poochies
Sitting aside the light's post, charging her cell phone 
All alone as day's twilight fades greeting another night
In this city half a million lives; watching buses unloading
Their final...

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What makes a beer lager?  By not being smaller?  
And I'm lookin' at a botttle of Heineken,
Boy, Ken's heinie must be sore!!
And just what was Pac-man packin"???
A thirty-eight??
Must one pledge first to get...

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