Long Layaway Poems

One day, not so long ago, when I was out playing with my dog Ruff, I met a very old woman. She looked very tired and poor. Her clothes were worn and kind of ragged....

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U see me and my boo were ready to do the do
      We planned the day  
    Discussed it thoroughly
      ...

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We need the help to convey
Our causes to masses of
People's.
Marriage is a community
Affair which means
People's throughout the
Church needs to know
What to say 
When people are looking for
Help in coming together
People respond others
In many different ways...

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Alias indomitable invincible
Donald John Trump oozes wrath
inexorably plunging every species
of life toward apocalyptic warpath
mercilessly threatentens world
wide web promising bloodbath

validating ex post facto commander
in chief as nonpareil sociopath
hence... this call to arms gives run
for money challenging...

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Have I ever mentioned the way it is in life sometimes; my own meager thoughts!?

This Pop Culture, that has always lain at the forefront of transitories transcendence

An everflowing river which stands present within this moment...

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After checking the Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Wards catalogs until their pages were torn and faded, we took one last look at the sales ads in the local newspaper, donned our socks and sandal,...

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It's funny how we associate things.  They become one with each other.  Who can imagine an Easter without the bunny, or losing a tooth and not being paid a visit by the tooth...

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My clothes came from
K-mart.
  They were on layaway
Until school starts.
  
  We would go out to eat,
Every now and then.
  We would chill out when
Our parents would count to ten.

 ...

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Smooth Ways
I put women on layaway... Hey!
it dosen't cost a cent to toss so love your mcdonald tray.
Go ahead, want it all
I wont crush your dreams big or small
rather brake up then to fall shameful...

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One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies.
Pennies saved by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher.
One dollar and eighty- seven cents. And the...

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I put women on layaway. Hey!
It does not cost a cent to toss
So love your McDonald tray
Go ahead, want it all
I wont crush your dreams big or small
Rather brake up than to fall. Shameful you...

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sam i yam not, 
     nor will this 'lo bot go away
cuz, every coordinate in cyber space allows, 
     enables and provides 
    ...

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Where does time go
When time drifts by so slow
How does one really know
How to stop this ongoing picture show
When days get lost in the haze
How is it possible to capture a rainbows craze

That brings our...

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WHITE glistening snow
WHITE dove
DOVE of love
DOVE of purity
PURITY of intention
PURITY of child's innocence
INNOCENCE lost
INNOCENCE price was paid
PAID by charge
PAID by layaway
LAYAWAY in manager
LAYAWAY paid by Child stranger
STRANGER gifted Earth
STRANGER provided worth 
WORTH is sung
WORTH is...

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I drink too much
to get your images out of my head
but with no such luck
so i kept drinking instead
and with dread 
I'd wake up with no recollection
but still your memory comes 
in quite a large...

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This Year, Underneath the Tree
By Rick Rucker

This year, underneath the tree,
Presents all around,
But, the one that can’t be found,
The one, that means the most to me,

Your Love, which you give to me, so True,
And I...

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Marble hatched haven communes; helixicly hewn canvas' brushed within

Acidulous acrylics of adumbrated conjectual forms....

Spawn tipped dippings upon the collateral cliffs edging these, layaway hues?!

Deciphered shades in monochrome pitch pigments beneath the jaded jejunes

Manic manifestations, over-looking...

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I hope you're aware what you're doin' --
Got a bad feeling you're not
We may be headin' into ruin --
Maybe lookin' at the Doomsday clock

When that end-times gong chimes out,
Who will come to your defense
To say...

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The “forthcoming” backtracks on dilly-dallied whispers.

They place verbal down payments on layaway,
Incomplete soul mates
Running on muted slow dances

Blanketing their pain

“Oh, how I always wished for your lips against my selfless animosity”, said Nobody.

Another decrepit smile
Pandering...

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Remember back when black people were friends because we only
had each other then

Back when we wore butterfly collar shirts platform shoes and mini skirts
when the press and curl was in and wearing a afro was...

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As I stepped out into the morning dew,
the rooster was crowing as roosters will do.
Then I sat down on an old oak log 
and down at my feet sat Jeb my old dog.

As the Sun...

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