Long Jemima Poems

Original version:

Phone for the fish knives, Norman
As cook is a little unnerved;
You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes
And I must have things daintily served.

Are the requisites all in the toilet?
The frills round the cutlets can wait
Till...

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It all started in kindergarten with cowboys on them
Next came Smokey and the Bandit's Trans Am
Collected a pair Doris Day once wore
Took a pair from the garbage at the curb next door
While most people are...

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When this happened it caught the world off guard
An epic scene, a memory that you could not discard
Who would have guessed these two titans of obesity and tooth decay
Would break so many kid's hearts in...

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‘Great Scott, shucks and darn, I’ve gone and lost a shoe’
cursed the elephant followed by ‘this simply will not do!’
‘The blasted thing is far too loose, I should have had it mended!
So, whoever has found...

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I’m facing a challenge and I’m taking bets
That I can remember the names of my pets

There’s Tommy and Jonnie and Sally and Barry
The one over there I believe might be Harry
Tiddles and Wriggles and Bruno...

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Parad(em)ise

Dangling from a stolid chandelier of empty shadows

Her threadbare strings attached to vacant promises

Jemima has tried every angle of escape and refuge


Her make up faded and the jester’s façade burrowed

Deep into macabre deluded weather worn...

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Alabaster body of truth
got buried beneath
a dung-key pile of swastika lies

SWAT teams of fascist oppression
swarm the polling places
like hieroglyphic Dead Sea flies

Democracy is locked in a closet,
and minority tears are sorrow overflowing
from a false premise...

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Annie Lander

I never took notice of
 Aunt Jemima photo as exploitation
Nothing racial or stereo types (did you)?

All I remember was the sticky bottle
 on our kitchen table, next to a stack 
 a sack of...

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AIN'T YA MAMA

I MAY NURTURE YOU NOW AND THEN
WE MAY OR MAY NOT BE NEXT OF KIN
BUT I FIND IT SO MAZING
I AIN'T YA MAMA
NOT YOUR MAMAM
nO, AUNT JEMIMA
NOT TRYING TO BE DONMINATION
COARSE AND DIRECTIVE,...

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If you find my lifeless body hanging from a tree,
Know that I have too much to live for,
I am not a fruit that easily grows on trees,
Yet too many trees have fruit that looks like...

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