Long Letterman Poems

Bad ass beauty brought bedlam, and begat bastard child...
courtesy booty call minus preemptive measures
while plugg naughty bits of tarnished knight 
while he took tea and crumpets within mistress's boudoir

The following verses typed out some years...

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Today, I Mourn slain Beatle John Lennon
assassinated at 10:50 PM,
on December 8, 1980
forty four years later to date
outside The Dakota Apartment,
(also known as the Dakota Apartments),
located at 1 West 72nd Street
in New York City, U.S.

After...

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What do a lot of people do at 1:00 am?
Watch late night television, read, or watch letterman?
A lot happens at this time of night,
Sometimes bar people, get drunk, and have fights.

What is their to do...

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Hypnagogic spell immediately cast
overpowering drug induced state fast
overcome even those who just woke
prolonged narcotic effect could last
bajillion years (hyperbole to wake
any lil lulled reader) superfast.

Before he/she succumbs without blame
impossible mission monseigneur or dame
to break loose...

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Now I lay beneath the covers, worldly thoughts I try to smother,
Sleep, a pleasure like no other, eyes are closed, I begin to yawn.
Pray to the Lord my soul to keep. Plump my pillow and...

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WHERE DO THEY GO?

Warm summer day  Sunday morning family outing
To church to  give thanks for  God's goodness
That old lady again sitting at the church entrance 
All day she collects pennies from parishioners
And...

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Letterman
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Write Letterman 
One hundred lines 
In your letter
Write it better
Word's wayward may miss their mark's
And disconnect our rooftop moment's.
Pick and nick at everything you have seen.
Writing plenty can be empty.
Love lost I cannot win...

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There is a piece of me, left in that little town, a square of friendly faces, 
where furrowed brows of no one famous, work to make their dollars stretch 
not far beneath the white crowned...

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I'm feeling rather silly today

Not that that's so unusual

But I'm feeling even more silly than usual

Read on and methinks

You'll understand exactly what I mean

Have thoughts of what it would be like

To be a ravishing female

Rather...

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I walk by you at school. 
Hoping you think I'm cool. 
Trying to not be a fool. 
The beauty that runs through my mind. 
Makes me think I'm blind. 
Because I'm focused on one thing....

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I'm feeling rather silly today
Not that that's so unusual
But I'm feeling even more silly than usual
Read on and methinks
You'll understand exactly what I mean
Have thoughts of what it would be like
To be a ravishing female
Rather...

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Our community is organizing a beauty pageant
That's doesn't seem uncommon, right?
The difference is, this pageant ain't for girls
Hang on now, this might give you a fright!
 
To be eligible to enter our competition
You must be...

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Our community is holding a beauty pageant
Which is not that uncommon, right?
But the difference is, this pageant ain't for girls
Hang on, try to picture this sight
 
To be eligible to enter our little competition
You must...

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sitting on the porch with a bowl of cookie crisp
reminiscing about the times when everything was cheap
sitting on the porch with a bowl of cap' n crunch
thinking about the times when one radio station was...

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My father wandered in like he always did
wearing his pride like a decades old varsity Letterman jacket
too stuck on what used to be to realize that his life was just as crappy and cracked as...

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Take the moments, 
add that time there was a lady
Walking up to the grocery store.

The balloon boy drama.
The mother and her baby strolling
Quite in their worlds, smiling.

Jonbenet Ramsey, Oprah, 
David Letterman, OJ,
The Simpsons and the...

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I'm a very impatient guy
I'm squeezing this little ball
It really makes me mad
My middle name is period, last name T 

I'm a full-time bodyguard
Secretarial work is out
I look from this to the potential
Inventory of unrealised...

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Ay Chihuahua what a hot enchilada

Beguiling in her Dallas Cowboys letterman jacket

Flicker starlight in her eyes angel in beauty 

Raven waves of silk long hair 

Will torture your soul for just a small taste of...

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Once upon a time in a neighborhood of Orleans
there lived a Jon Terrell among voodoo queens
we neighbors thought him eccentric, sometimes rude
but he turned out a famous, pot smoking dude

When his chance finally came for...

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