Long Jackknife Poems

Poetic paean to papa's princess

Otherwise titled:
Mien wonderful wedded divine wife....,

whose piercing deliverance,
a balm ameliorating tattooed strife
despite being dirt poor,
(especially after dirty deeds done... 
generating thunderstruck ac/dc current
hmm... maybe due comeuppance 
being scammed to the hilt)
suspicion...

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Attorney General William
Barr black marker in hand
kept promise to censor vital
details of Mueller Report
swift as Usain Bolt candidly,
grandly, lustrously, roundly

youthfully blocked out more
rapid than an elegant eland
vibrantly, regally, magically,
and gracefully skirts borderland
which favored topography
constitutes grassland...

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After about fifty years as married wife
the last three fraught with strife
obvious telltale signs of terminal illness rife
hysterectomy irrevocably didst jackknife
at the least severely incapacitated
think pitted, riddled,
and rounced her tortured life.

Ovarian cancer affliction
on par with...

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice
                    a just jaspered journey
jokingly jumped...

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You never think what is to come.
The little kid you smiled at
is a well-known author now, 
a thousand miles away; you found
the trash-filled lot you didn't care about
is now a church—    ...

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You are rock and bone,
sturdy eyes and heavy leaden shoes
line up by the doorframe like splinters.
The wood is peeling, and the 
stairs cave beneath our feet in surrender.
My papa’s new wife would place glass paperweights
on...

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I remember so well that Christmas date.
The year that things changed - I had just turned eight.
I was no longer a child in my view,
And I hoped Santa had seen that, too.
The time for toys...

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Fanatics in feigned fury forced fellow fools for fait accompli
Laying lies as labyrinth loyally to murdering Lord,
Haggard Haters in hounding habits and hypocrisy as honor hunched,
Bearded Blackguard blazes bright sword amongst blinded buffoons,
Jabber with Jackknife...

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Above the lowly metro din,
we climb through earnest efforts
to slopes of grouse and goats.
Where skies brim pale and pure,
trails narrow, plummet, climb,
and jackknife over the granite jumble
of broken planetary bones.

We glimpse a momentary thaw
in a...

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crazy steam whistle 
wakes me to a cooler ‘morn
blown loud 
moisture piercing
rock rock rockin'
on grease
on iron
on splintered sleepers 
creaking through 
frost blown meadows
do I jump?
do I stay? 
next station comin'
station bull gonna ride you away
blackjack...

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Leather boots 
tight black suits 
skin hot as hell 
Bone white skulls stare

At its heart
cutting sweet 
burns in between
Deep in a place 
for the pain

The sweet suffering 
feeling insane 
thoughts rain
leather boots
Jackknife
marching black suits 
keepin...

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