Long Inopportune Poems

a collaborative work with Alfred Vassalo


The Stars sparkled in her eyes
As light interlaced with her shadow
Causing her to question her senses
Even though she closed her eyes
light continued to seep out

Her brilliance, competed with the sun...

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i tried to notice without noticing.
i tried to fit in by not standing out,
but i knew i was different.
their walls much bigger.
their yards much nicer.

in elementary it seemed everyone
was in the same class: lower class,
but...

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the Medicare, an undeserved fund the patients spend,
which seems extremely excrescent,
must be crushed immediately without any mend. 
No coverage serves them right! Be they gravely ill or convalescent.
In his favor, all the rules the Capitol...

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Vane glorious and absolutistic,
     though I defiantly,
     cavalierly, and blithely attest
Yukon bet your (laugh-in) sweet bippy
     mine acidic breast

houses anarchic, anti-poetic ballistic,
 ...

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         "Socks"
	(Extra, Missing, or Clinton's Cat)
	Written: by Tom Wright
	3/12/99
	
	Where do socks go when they disappear
	Is my question of the day?
	They always remain, but the question is where?
	Please...

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“Good Morning Mr Wolf”



What an inopportune time
to fall in love 
with a 
new conceptual dream
of wrapping my body 
up in blue skies

viral love robotic 
you're somewhere 
lost  in the machine
cyber eyes 
undressing 
words hypnotic

that...

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“You’ll be traveling light for a trip so long,
Don’t you think?” asked the voice in my head.
“As a matter of fact I’d prefer to prolong
This departure forever.” I said.

The conversation, though suitably cross,
Was nevertheless polite
And...

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Squeaky and his buddies resided somewhere deep within the church's organ.
That elusive rodent was the bane of the pastor, The Reverend Doctor Morgan!
The reverend almost lost his religion a time or two dealing with sneaky...

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I must have forgotten to pull down the shade…because at a time I thought inopportune…in the early hours of the morning…I was awakened by the moon.

I tend to sleep less soundly these days…now that I’m...

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Due to popular belief, all homosapien life contains a treasure tucked away from the visual sight to maintain a sense of normal.
Most have been battered and damned in an early tense, future and or present,...

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Why does it feel like there's a fishbone 
stuck in my throat.
A large one at that, pointy but girthy
No banana, rice, apple, idli, peanut butter mash could dislodge this one
It's almost funny,
If it didn't hurt...

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There is this phenomenon we feel growing older
that happens to us old folks a lot:
How some days we feel our age…while others…we do not!

Some days those aches and pains that accompany growing older
seem at best…inopportune…
We...

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Distant notes adrift of a lone melancholic mandolin 
Astride a gentle breeze covetous caress to my skin
Seductive and voluptuous a most impassioned plea
Bursts a sunset with fervent shades of lush alizarin

Promising nonchalant sensory whispers of...

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The truth like stark reality remains immutable
Despite attempts to promote sophisms
Dressed up as verity and verisimilitude at a high table
Where misguided minds dabble at euphenisms and cynicisms

To disembowel and undermine global discourse
Indulging in fallacies
To subvert...

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Sometimes, as a guy, he just gets out of control
And at the most inopportune time, he stands up like a pole.

Like when the teacher calls on us to the chalk board at our school,
Right when...

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"Buttons"

Silly word really, right? 

Sounds like when to speak it... like you just admitted that your bottom weighs an amount in the tons. 

Hell man, with me... ! 

"Wouldn't want a cart to move my...

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The world in our hands would impair devils
An unthinking thought more blissful
Than a wish fulfilling shooting star

Our missions would be charted out
To go on our victory dance one step at a time
For peacefully unifying the...

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How I pine for those carefree days when I was seventeen!
I weighed a mere hundred twenty pounds and was rather lean!
I thought I could mount an Arab steed and conquer the world!
Before me bold adventures...

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IF YOU CAN, FAKE IT, (INSANITY)
 
If only I could re-address this un-balance within my head
Waken every morning without this inner turmoil of dread

So I could see life again with those rose-coloured glasses
No longer see...

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Who’s right is it to tell us it is bad?
Who’s right is it to tell us it is wrong?
Who’s right is it to tell us it is disgraceful?
Who’s right is it to tell us it...

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P.T.S.D.

Pain is a close companion,
Obsessive compulsion an annoying friend,
Self-loathing is an acquaintance,
Trust issues never end.

Terror always lingers,
Revulsion follows close behind,
Anxiety is a regular guest,
Unfortunate thoughts throughout the mind.
Morbid anticipation in abundance
Abhorrent visions from times gone...

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that fish patiently wait 
at interface of water and fate
burping bubbles for their troubles
water bugs and mosquitoes
unwilling, unsettling for nibbling placebos
acting on a deeper, more hungry drive
to ascend today, eager to stay alive

jaws set wide...

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The best results don’t of necessity arise from shooting from the hip
Where far from conforming to best practices, impulsive characters
Whip up antagonistic emotions which rip
Apart intended outcomes and incite detractors

Into a frenzy
Whose course of action
Hazy,...

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
wind so strong ~~~
all night long  ~~~

                           ...

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Another love poem for all you people
This guy's quite the charmer it seems
Could teach the young guys a thing or two
About wooing pretty young things

Don't mean to brag but I'm quite irresistible
When I turn on...

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