Long Jalopy Poems

Picture this.
Exploding pipe bombs.
Land fields that can take your arms off.
Driving off road, and frenzied, with excitement 
Adrenaline RAGING.
Oh, yes, Syrian Teenagers,
It is “Let’s See If We Are Really Alive” day.
Okay, we’ll let in some...

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In her twilight years, Pixie Dust, a soul so like my own.

Jeanne McGee heart hears the waves of poems that live beyond every gate.

After the party, Andrea Dietrich, when sky turned nonchalant, changed those dirty...

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Armadilly came galloping into Troll Lake, bent on seeking a new life, to unwind.
He’d rode out of the Badlands, leaving only a trail of blowing dust and leaves, behind.
His steady stead Jalopy had been pounding...

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Armadilly Billy the Sling Shot Kidster, was the Sheriff of our town.
When mangy rustlers went into action, he was wont to hunt them down.
‘The Buzzard’ and his surly gang of rustlers of epically, bad renown…
Had...

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Headed home from a business trip
Tired, spaced out, grouchy and impatient
Pushing the limit to beat rush hour traffic
Fast closing on an old jalopy van

Suddenly blue smoke and debris flying
The back tire must have bounced twenty...

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Chorus
So many bites have made my heart indigent
so many burns have made my taste lost
I see your displays, I cherish the efforts
time is a luxury I beg of you to afford
give me this gift to...

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Car Trouble

The car started slow to go as cars go
Silent on the ride it motioned down the road  
Leaves could be counted on the trees as I passed by
I counted every one just for...

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Wait a minute, is it already Christmas again
Seems I just took down the lights and the tree
Is there no rest for the downtrodden and weary
This season sometimes takes the Merry Gentleman out of me

So I...

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Wait a minute, is it already Christmas again
Seems I just took down the lights and the tree
Is there no rest for the downtrodden and weary
This season sometimes takes the Merry Gentleman out of me

So I...

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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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I reckon you could rightly say that I am from the old school,
But some of the politically correct stuff today, as a general rule,
Leaves me scratching my skull, baffled and so incredulous,
Groping for the proper...

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On a farm in a community of drudgery and toil lived a man alone
He had lost so much in his life and had so little to show
For the multitude of years, sweat and love that...

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I just bought a turkey
In dire need of tenderize
Also a quick summer thaw
As this chick's as cold as ice

Must have froze it in the tundra as
I dive deep into the internet
Where it's got me wondering
Why...

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I just bought a turkey
In dire need of tenderize
Also a quick summer thaw
As this chick's as cold as ice

Must have froze it in the tundra as
I dive deep into the internet
Where it's got me wondering
Why...

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I just bought a turkey
In dire need of tenderize
Also a quick summer thaw
As this chick's as cold as ice

Must have froze it in the tundra as
I dive deep into the internet
Where it's got me wondering
Why...

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My dad loved big cars and had a dark green Ford LTD,
it was a giant beast of a car with a huge lazy engine;
we called it, "the house on wheels," and gosh it was smooth,
like...

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So ... I'm in this revolving door 'tother day, (for real),
Round-and-round-and-round ... people enter, exit, but I keep on ...
A little boy starts to enter with his mom, pulls back, lets her hand go -
Mom...

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Jalopy Memories

The old jalopy still proudly rumbles down a street now paved with asphalt
Flying tattered banners and trailing mists of smoke and steam in circles
Riding on thin tires held together by shiny spokes glinting in...

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1930

It started snowing during the night of Thanksgiving and until the next day.
The afternoon sky was a sullen bluish-gray.
The delicate white crystals touched down on top of the smooth skin of my nose.
It kissed my...

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I hear the rumbling of povertys approach.
Nothing in the budget for the Midas touch.
Faith is the only hope left for the clutch.
My hometown just suits her fine.
Exceed the limits and surely,she'll flash her dash with...

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Driving back home in my old black jalopy
The kids in the back were getting quite stroppy
Storm clouds were gathering straight ahead
I felt a chill for I could sense danger in my head

The darkness intensified before...

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Life is a Janus-faced Siren--
Willfully whimsical, 
Childishly headstrong.
It is death’s nemesis,
The soul’s swan song,
A black widow, a mirage,
A wily enchantress,
An elusive chimera.

Not everybody
get to realize their dreams,
Their fondest wishes, 
Their most fanciful whims.

Some days you’ll...

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Here's a tale of a white Chevy Corvair, I car I'll never forget
   Repossessed from a gypsy, I'd be willing to bet...

On a cold, snowy winter night, February 1968
   This 'bagel'...

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(THE TAKANINI VERSION)

Glazes eyes affixed to life’s heavy hinged seal,
waiting for 11am to be served his liquid meal.
Empty flagons he carries with a shaky mournful hurt,
red nose prominent, pant’s half-mask, torn shirt!

Once inside he alleges...

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Before the sunrise
Of Thanksgiving morning in Michigan

I test out loud
At the kitchen table
A few of my poems to my golden retriever
Who sits and listens with his head cocked
Confused at my knee…

"Did he say the word…walk…yet?"...

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