Long Lookalike Poems

I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.

My beaming spouse leads me, a dog on a short leash, into the forbidden citadel, the...

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"Well  to  a  certain  degree  yes I  really  don’t  want  to  impose.
I’m getting  used  to  my  deprivation."    As...

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I was a vibrant, portrait painter, bringing cherished profiles to eternal life,
Like undying life of balmy springtime, recurring in shades of green so rife.

I had long been fascinated with new faces, for it is seldom,...

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Mosque cowed covenant I keep Putin off...

and withheld broadcasting
the following communication
tucked away these many years,
when president number forty five
donned, jump/kick started, and tweeted
thru his musky, albeit flabby mantle,
a rallying cry forewarning onset of Mag(m)a
bubbling, gurgling,...

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Did you see the way Debbie was winking at me last night.

That wasn’t winking, her eyes were rolling in disgust.

No, it was definitely come on eyes.

My God, you got arrested at the altar for bigamy,...

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Moss Cowed Covenant I Keep Putin Off...

For preservation, salvation,
and veneration, though with hold
ding temptation two mike
pence sieve lee clear,
to immoral majority mold
toot hoods, (those bajillion
Americans unanimously polled)
did want me to broadcast, communicate,

and declare, sans mock...

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The wind banged against the windows, likely ruining hundreds of curtains meant to protect the warmth inside. It made a soft rustling sound. Eighteen meters away, my lookalike and I met at the final farewell...

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#My_Lookalike_Dilemma
Feels like a Curse, since my childhood someone somewhere looked like me, Nigerians call me Ogah, Somalians calls me Their Own, got punished for being a Lookalike, forced to witness my Purity feathers raffled, bruised...

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What Intended To Be Praise Of A Cold Shower...
(became something else (tau welled), 
     and tolled at this hour).

Though hermetically sealed within
     this temperature
   ...

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Summit Times Ja Just Gotta Walk Away...

Excusing yourself as if...
going to the bidet,
an immense water closet
(perhaps the size of
Mar A Lago type getup),

sans human waste
(after flushing hearing 
heavenly suctioned whoosh)
empties into prez Donald's bay,
where one...

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Summit Times Ja Just Gotta Walk Away...

Excusing yourself as if...
going to the bidet,
an immense water closet
(perhaps the size of
Mar A Lago type getup),
sans human waste
(after flushing)

empties into prez Donald's bay,
where one bum wrapped aforementioned
toilet finely...

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Shy of condition

Shyness afflicted

Shy opaque canvas butterfly

Who only speaks when addressed

Oh shy , Oh shy
Opaque butterfly
Who only speaks when addressed

Converses only in chilling whispers
shyness permitting

Corner to corner when in a room searching camouflage in which
to...

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Ages ago bygone childhood delighted 
   especially Florida (sunkist) grandpa
Harris (Aaron) indulged jais nais sais quois 
   kibitizing lovingly, mirthfully
naturally offering pleasing qualities, 
   rendering slender tanned 
under venerated...

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Ribbons of confetti are streaming
out of the surviving building's with people hanging from them

And everyone to be seen in this 
procession is both smiling happy
and partying to the sound of
accompanying victory triumphant
blarring music

As on this...

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In my new teevee show : Brian touché plays Toyo harada ! 

He,s an evil millionaire , he,s out to conker the world ! 

Imagine Charles Xavier as a bad guy .  He runs...

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Why Oh Why Oh Me.

Oh why oh why do have so much bad luck
 My hands are tied
My feet are stuck
I’d be much better off being Mr Bean 
Or Donald duck
Than me

I try so damn...

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Eyebags forming. 
Dilated pupils.
The one starting pulling away. 
Leg-crossed and the hand supporting the chin.
The right arm falls in imbalance. 
Leg does not stop moving back and forth. 

So quick turning excitement into torture.

Searching the...

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Would run you a hot bath
Bubbles up to your chin
Bottle of wine chilling

If you'd let me win

Would ask a sexy hunk
To sponge your back
Say sweet words in your ears
Bet you'd like that

Please can I win.

After...

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Sandra was ready to PLAY
but she told me to go far AWAY
A beauty school QUEEN
would be embarrassed to be SEEN

"You're just not my type,Rodger...if ya know what I MEAN?!"

Ok..so I am not quite the STUD
But...

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Still here, watching television
Still here, lamenting my self
Nowhere to run, just stay left
Without any vision

Soundless meant to death
And rebellious sound meant to deadly death

I am forced to listen to a song, a lookalike-soldier song
Burn reason...

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Doppelgänger
by Michael R. Burch
			
Here the only anguish
is the bedraggled vetch lying strangled in weeds,
the customary sorrows of the wild persimmons,
the whispered complaints of the stately willow trees
disentangling their fine lank hair,

and what is past.

I find...

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I am not my father's princess
Nor my mother's lookalike 
I am but a warrior, born to fight
In this world where every action counts
The dark misty place, a child of light

A lot to laugh for, a...

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S uch a golden jubilee, across the vast floral sea s,
U ndulates in waves of butterfly breezes, imprompt u-
N ourished all summer by the honeyed, lookalike su n,
F ervently worshipful groupies, to all others aloo...

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DEATH BY TEA TOWEL


The WANTED posters in the Flyland corridor
Tell of the unsolved  murder case involving Uncle Theodore,
Squashed with a wet tea towel in an execution-style fatal attack.
His crime? Walking on a meat and...

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