Long Js Poems

(an archived interview with Orlando City Beat Magazine)
{q & a with Matthew J. Palm}
Q.)  
" J.S., WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE A WRITER?"
A.)
"No one knows when they are a writer. Everyone thinks they...

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…Said the Mind to the Heart, we do not work together to run this place all we do is argue and fight.  This place use to run so simple and sweet then you came...

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Well hello and good afternoon good morning and good evening to you. This is your daily bulletin from the moo news channel brought to you by Mrs Harriet Heiferton. Today was a big day for...

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Funny the things that stick with you
like gum beneath the table
as the years go by.
My brains goes as far back as three solar circuits;
big bro put the Wonder bread in the microwave
(package and all) ---...

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The poem requires a mind
that finds meaning, even divination, 
in language. Non-fiction, 
up to academic standards, demands
evidence. Nothing less will do.
Most of us read fiction and this
needs a taste for action, motivation.

Lately, as have you,...

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quiet
look,
there he is,
looking gray and down
studying the earth
appearing to be wrapped in thoughts
remembering another one
he glances toward the road
the path for which he fears

hat chew!
startled
he swings around
fluid motion
turns to sudden stillness
desperately gasping for air
heart thumping...

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Sleep still ain't shhtt
It's like my eyes n brain js quit
Maybe it helps sometimes..a bit
But my very own reality is soooo much more than legit.
If I never had to sleep,
I swear I'd stay running in...

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How do you know? 
Who tells you so? 
Is it premonition? 
Over-ambition? 
One who forever butts in with song;
With the voice gone entirely wrong. 

Do you reach for opinions of loved ones? 
Would they inform...

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Sometimes I think that life's a bummer  and then you die.............
Then other times I think was that me or some other guy..........
Because in reality life isn't all that bad............
And i'm thinking if I really...

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For me,
but not for my kids,
it was The Old Rugged Cross
teaching my ego/eco-logic crossed
to believe adults could deprive their Earthly minds
of sacred co-passionate investment
and yet thrive uniformly healthy bodies
of equitable wealthy,
yet sacrificially lonely,
dignity.

Not until I...

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Miss Poetry
E. P. J.

E. P. J. – a cousin – forth removed, of mine,
who lived in long-ago days – a different time –
who created a world for herself, beginning with rhyme
that took her from the...

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i looked over
into the other
twin bed and
heard not
words but
instead

zzz 
zzzz 
zz
zzzzz 
zz
zzz

but there was
deeper more
meaning then
what was
a snore
but was

because before
it was zzz zzzz 
zz zzzzz zz
zzz but clearly
now a different
mantra

zzz zz as
zzz zzz
zz zzz
and in
this...

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the why's we ask
come so often,
catching us off guard
and knocking us down,
we don't want to make a sound
for fear of disloyalty,
but there they are
the why's we ask

treat this world kind
and be rewarded,
rewards that perhaps
come another...

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You give me a smile that lingers with every thought of you.
It amazes me because its like you feel every thought that passes through.
You said its for real, I know its forever.. So Im gonna...

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I awoke in the morn with the warmth of the sun 
shining in on my face.
I had to smile , for the light and the warmth reminded
me of her.
I turned and my breath caught in...

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Memorial day is a time to remember all the men and women that answered the call and 
and gave it their all to protect this great land...And all the ones that survived to tell their...

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I wish you'd be here
Right beside me all day
Fear not, I'm right here

I wish life would change
Then, it would be exciting
Time to rearrange

Splendid as the sun
You illuminate the moon
Day has just begun!

Wherever you go,
I'll go...

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traveling on a spinning world
never considering to slow,
he remains motionless
close to madness,
winding trails of the day
etching into his mind,
lights, words, sounds, 
asphalt, buildings, humans
trashing beyond capacity,
his watch ticks

endlessly avoiding them
he listens and sings,
yet moments short
consumed...

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Front and Center!
Those Gates adorned with pearls in Heaven.
White angels soaring. 

If by chance, 
Ordered to enter;
Through St. Peter's Permission; 
I demand from you chancellor; 
A swift insanity plea, submission. 
For this troubled soul is...

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Looking Dead at me 
In this Smear’d Mirror
A Lost Man;
Tormented.
Face Red, Brittle and Tear’d.
Less Excuses
The Longer I stare.
Stress Abuses
My conscience with a glare.
A Guilty Reflection alerts me,
Prison is Fear
Longing for an Escape 
Plus answers to...

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A K-8 school, J.S. Waters, was roundly chastised today
  Its students held a 'mock' slave auction
This happened in March, in North Carolina, in the year 2022
  White students sold black students as slaves,...

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You cowered away;
Just enough days,
To avoid certain death;
Maybe.

But while your absence, 
Indeed, 
Properly pacified me;
Bet you never guessed,
When your unlucky day would be!

The water’s scalding,
As you’re showered,
With vicious fists;
You lonely coward!

Onlookers;
Whose normal views of violence...

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life comes and goes
one must not know
memories of old 
rest with a toll

tugging, nagging
etching into the skull
knocking on the door
solicitation unknown

run, hide, bury them
leave them at rest
lock em away
but wait
they need no keys

stillness, that is...

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God is our answer
When the mind has lost
His battle with the azure,
When a dress slips
Under a pillow,
An gold earring,

God is our answer
Before the weight of the world
Before the love of a woman,
For his intended departures,
In...

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Will you flay me alive
To hold conventions that strangle belief?
Shall credibility dive
For cutting love free from chains of grief?
In your form I search for me
Not the hackneyed desolate rules that steer
Cowards to shores of misery
I...

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