Long Joes Poems

REMEMBERING JOSEPH FRANCIS GRATES JOE AND MY HUSBAND SERVED TOGETHER IN VIETNAM 101 SCREAMING EAGLES HE WAS ACTUALLY A MAYOR AT ANYRATE HE WAS A BIG PART OF OUR MARRIAGE ACTUALLY WE WOULD SIT FOR...

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Venerated paternal puissant prophet...

His buzzfeeding spirit jump started
and kindled eternally his uplifting karma,
thus I present genuine psalm
remembrance of things past hallelujah!

Lemme automatically shift figurative gears
and apprise thee dear reader,
when a series of irreversible unfortunate events
accelerated...

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My master’s degree's a senior’s cruise - most of the other students are thirty and even forty-somethings. Good for them, for making the (75K) investment, it’s hard, and they all look very serious. I am...

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The home where Chella grew up, in the ghetto of Liberty City Florida, had beige carpets so old that pieces of the tuft and twirl would come out of the backing under-foot.
The  apartment window...

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Two dog night

A stillness had crept in under a cloak 
of finely sculptured snowflakes, descending 
quietly from an oppressively heavy sky. 
It blanketed deserted streets
 that longed for the busy life 
they had been built...

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After considering all this I can only come to one conclusion, there can only be one all knowing all powerfull God.'  For instance if we consider the Gospel of Matthew chapter 22 verse 13,...

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(first you must Read Out of the Shadows - P1 and Out of the Shadow - Hit Man)

You wont be disappointed!!!!!
 

As his wife resigned from the garden pool that summers morning
Joe smiled then left...

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Venerated puissant prophet kindled karma - hallelujah!

Higher power our prayer for vehicle addressed
courtesy deliverance kindred lady luck,
we (the missus and me) blessed,
whereby each our expanded bosom 
nearly burst forth

(think analogous stuffed to hilt treasure chest)
managing...

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Am I a waiter or a warrior, a visionary, or wall watcher?
Am I a strategist or fighting activist?

Sometimes, I feel that I'm just a nesting dove.
Perhaps at any given season, I'm all the above.

If we...

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That dormant feeling of insecurity arose,
when travel journal got thrust adjacent
     to my tattered (holey tattooed) clothes
while I knew with crossed eyes

     aroused anger from peaceful doze
my...

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(a series of micro vignettes)

Chella and I are reading our analysis assignments together because that’s how we link and build.
We read out loud too, because how else can you judge the flow?
When my phone, lying...

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Flying Saucers, Flake, Bar Six
Country Style, Gobstoppers, Twix

Arrow Bars and Sherbert Dabs
Sweet Tobacco, Lucky Bags

Toffee Crisp and Dairy Crunch
Grand Seville and Milky Lunch

Beta Bars, Loot, Candy Floss
The mysterious chewing gum flavour loss

Golden Crisp, Nut Crisp...

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my buddy John's Bertram a wood antique
I fixed the engines while he varnish teak
so there we were Joe, John, and Kelly
with a cooler packed with bait so smelly

early in the morning waz headin out the...

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(On May 1 1960, at the very depth of the
Cold War, CIA pilot Gary Powers was shot
down over the central USSR.  Here we are
imagining his conversation with a charge
d'affaires of the US Embassy. ...

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put your barbies away!
put your J I Joes away children
it's time you grew up
threw up were told
at the ripe age of six or seven

that its a sick sick world
and you need to get involved

WOLF WOLF...

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Big, blonde beauties
so beautiful and so pretty,
such girls of high class
drinking from glasses,
filled with the best champagne;
and smoking their fine cigarettes,
while gossiping their fine stories
bragging and spoiling on themselves.

ha! ha!

Tell me again about your big,...

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(read Part 1 first)


Woken by a sound, then reaches for his piece.
Startled from that faintest whisper, on the run from the police
Four hours sleep for this mysterious chap is normality, 
Slips into his Armani suit,...

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8MILE8MILE    .     .     .     .     .    STYLE     . ...

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Joe goes home to his 5 bed semi
Dado rails and flat screen telly
Wife’s cooking dinner, wine in her hand
Kids playing in the den with painted hands
He kicks off his shoes, throws his jacket on the...

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KOKODA 1942   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5VG58ypVuE

BULLANT BITTEN OR SHOT?
Oh yes its very popular to walk the Kokoda Track,
And people by the dozen have done just bloody that,
I you were there in forty two it wasn’t as...

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Thinks he's on some cool ish
But really on some bull ish
The type of dude that
You want nothing to do with

This is the type of dude 
That will  promise you everything 
Wont deliver anything
& use...

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when I didn’t say it
                              ...

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Written from the perspective of a younger and
even nerdier version of me. A kid who confused courting
with chasing Romulan. But a kid with heart.  

She don’t deny she’s so fly;
So hard to see; Gone...

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It's Bloody Ridiculous

It's bloody ridiculous....

Make no mistake, Malaysians are such a complying lot....
We complained about traffic jams, road tolls and blocks...
A nitwit politician suggested  waking up early and hitting the roads...
Like any docile citizens,...

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There was a panther roar 
On an icy Canadian floor 
Off in the distance 
Images filled with persistence 
Somewhere south marlins swim and dolphins dance 
Aquarium stage is where they get the chance 
While heat...

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