Long Jonny Poems

Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab
He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab
Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day
And lots of evil folk to...

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it had indeed become the autumn of his life and he had harshly lost

every spring in his step when his wife began to abuse his good faith

abandoned him by the way side and the side...

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"Fits the Need" 


All people want 
is a stable house
a place to call their "safe" home

to "LIVE"
outside of all cages -
free

live life 
how "we" 
were meant to feel

to have no hell 
continually raising chaos
in this...

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No roof no mood flat affect
Glances empty no space for sorrow
Small rucksack to collect  
No tears to borrow

A sloppy flute
A black and white photo
Of a young boy now mute 
Carpe Diem his motto

Dreamy alone...

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Once in a blue moon I have been told
The cliché’s clan gets together with the Catch Phrase posy

If I have told you once I have told you a thousand times this story or are you...

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Imagine your self 
stuck in the situation
your husband a wife beater
three children no money

how do you escape 
how do you make a life 
for yourself your children
your future, you have a right

Too be safe
to be...

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Feeling again

Ice water floated stagnant misery in caustic veins coffin nails and razor blades 
waited for the vultures of frosted lavish lava-daggers staring at the mirror with 
no reflection other than the murderous screams numbed...

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----paranoid, pornographic, psychotic, pontific, politically aware, rapping, rhyming, right here, right now in River city, rock and roll up the Yazoo, sad, sadistic, sarcastic, sassy, satanic, schizoid, shitting, silly, sexy, smarmy, smelly, smooth, snarky, snarling,...

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Marvel's Fantastic Four: Mr. Fantastic, The Invisible Woman,
The Human Torch and The Thing.

The best memory of the Fantastic Four cartoon characters
that can be best realized, of good measure, was their
live production. Unfortunately, not one episode
is...

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insane, lovely, loony, lonely, lonesome, malodorous mean old rotten, mothering, nasty, narcotic, never whatever, never meh, never cold, not approved by the CIA, not approved by DHS, not approved for human consumption by the FDA,...

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The tip of the fur tree sticks out like a sore candle

Barely visible an angel drowns in a pileup of presents 

Fortunately wrappers and cards are bio-degradable

Each allocated their circumspect place for recycling

Ribbons find rest...

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The Red Devil Bronco Johnson 1950-2007
Oh he blew into Toowoomba in 1972
The GTHO Ford was firing left black tracks on bitumen too
Laid 200 feet of rubber they were still smoking in the street
When the coppers...

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Will won the table tennis at Rio, 
And celebrated this great victory, 
By instantly jumping on the table, 
With his arms stretched both sides. 

For this he got the yellow card, 
From a lines judge...

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When at last you have become aware deep down yourself
and of the people whom require at last some mental health
be serviced, come to services
and you have at least one personality disorder
characterized by abnormal
and maladaptive inner...

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the good die young
Jonny was a good man
he was a man of his words
who sacrificed all he got
for the sake of his people
he never lived a life of lies
so truthful to his community
he offer help...

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*Image of The Adventures of Jonny Quest on File.

The Adventures of Jonny Quest and The Talk
[Truth be told, I was too young at the time to know the nuances as to why after a year,...

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Sworn to secrecy, she told me it had been a long time..
as we sat swinging in a hammock in the late day sun.

'What., are you sayin' you never did it?'

I thought what my mom would...

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Mulga Snakeyes

Yes we went a Droving on the job 
As we rode around the mob 
With the cattle, 
just to earn our bit of pay
with Uncle Charlie, to earn a bob
a watching watching of 
watching...

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Archimedes slipped in the shower
          Diogenes drowned in a barrel 
               ...

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Johnny played video games till his mouth was dry
He never glimpsed at the midday sun
Or turned his head to see the star lit sky
He would have seen a world for the taking
Just a couple steps...

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When Polly comes the smart ones take a good tee with lemon the others 
a pen and a Jonny smile seyng to she..,, be my friend I pay you well"

She is Polly she has the...

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My boyfriends getting high im 
watching him kill his mind
Jonny is snorting lines he's 
lying in the corner 
contemplating suicide
Becky is drowning her sorrows 
from the bottom of the bottle

Wouldn't it be great if we...

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Little Jonny lost his father
And he feels abandoned and alone
How could God make such a big mistake like this
Taking Jonnys’ father before he turned just six
How will he go to Cub Scouts
With just a mother,...

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"In You"  

What more to be said
or thought, when 
poetry flows like water

a never ending tap
of dreams and thoughts
spilling from a full heart

overflowing 

onto blank pages
pouring into the mind 
of you

the writing stops
eventually
but the...

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I and Jonny played on the playground that day.
Well almost, mum said we are allowed to cross the road alone.
Mum said we should hold hands.
,,Give me your hand jonny, just in case"
My little brother nodds.
But...

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