Long Lysol Poems

America
I´m here to bring you
What you don´t need
Another heartfelt poem
Another heartsick plea
Worth less than
Chewed gum
America I’m tapping
At your window
At 3 am
With a bag full of
Sour wine
And a shopping list
Of grievances
America wake up
It´s me and I...

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Not-So-Heroic Couplets
by Donald Trump
care of Michael R. Burch 

To outfox the pox: 
kill yourself first, with Clorox!

And since death is the goal, 
mainline Lysol! 

No vaccine?
Just chug Mr. Clean!

Is a cure out of reach?
Fumigate your...

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3/28/21


Sanitized a lot of messes with Lysol
Saw it all through my eyeballs
By being logical during daytime or nightfall

Did no good to dawdle
Helped to be thoughtful
Experienced the pleasant and the awful
Didn't always benefit one side or...

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Let’s talk about feelings - feelz.
Does anything else really matter?
Ok, sure - health - yeah, right up there.

Covid was my generation’s depression (literally).
Maybe not for everyone, there were places that ignored covid, I think.

We didn’t...

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Two hands in folds of shoddy cotton,
in clouds of cheap champagne and cigarette smoke.
My ringing ears

Echoing the television murmurs,
but it’s the same news on a broken record,
broken record horrors.

Now the clock— It’s snickering, a thief,...

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Recently, my ears have heard
Some news that sounds quite absurd
My eyes can’t believe what they have seen
Is this for real, an outright global panic
Regarding the Coronavirus COVID 19
An epidemic that has turned pandemic
Has it been...

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You are told there is no pandemic.
You are told it’s all a hoax.
You are told it’s a deep state conspiracy.
Three thousand deaths here, 
           ...

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Essential workers
They stand in front of the mirror
With black bags under their eyes
Forcing themselves awake
Just like any other day
The clock says 2:00 AM
They've taken a shower
They've gotten dressed
But now they put on a mask
And hope...

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imprisoned in one’s own home —
              fear of the masses’ mind

           the...

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My feet are under the table,
white linen is beneath the blue and white plates,
the cutlery is sparklingly clean
I have been up all night polishing it.

Whatever the answer is 
I need to always be a question...

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A chambermaid whose name is Marlia
Had the most terrible diarrhoea
Whilst scrubbing a loo
She needed to pooh
Poop flowed freely from her posterior


It splattered on the newly scrubbed door
Gloopy poop was all over the floor
There was a...

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Such a common smell

Used in places all over

Restaurants to grocery stores to schools to bathrooms

a smell this clean cant make me feel so gross


Kills 99.9% of viruses & bacteria

Kills the germs left from my stomach...

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Picking Okra was Before Child Abuse
or
I'd Rather Eat a Possum
By: Tom Wright
8/5/00

Layers of clouds lay overhead,
perhaps a summer rain.
Though tempted to denounce,
as a child, I would refrain.
A carpet of dust surrounds bare feet,
large drops are...

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Guessing I’m just another white rapper?
This isn’t just another pale mouth flapper. 
The rhymes are cleaner than Lysol Purrell. 
Sharing hidden stories usually a hard sell. 

Dripping with substance and soaking wet. 
Assume I’m a...

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Force fed dish soap and comet
until I vomit for a childish comment 
Lysol with a knife to my throat
in the group home that day I made a promise
I will no longer provoke 
to do the...

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Began so promising
As thoughts of a new year approached
Some called it a year of new beginnings and clarity
That 20/20 vision of sorts

Unknown and foreign
You found your origins in a faraway land
Yet soon enough, you would...

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Please Officer, Mr. Clean is not like that,
though will admit that we had a little spat.
I used Pine Sol, and he wasn’t really happy,
but assure you that it never made him slappy.
Little Joy was there...

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I was a little girl with a tattered ragdoll,
       and I lived in an attic that was not tall;
          ...

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1G, 2G, 3G, 4!
Keep the wheel spinning
We have to have more, more, more!

GENERATIONS, GENERATIONS, give us more, I say
How about 5?
This is what we need: fast, faster, fastest
Ooooh! Now we are alive!

More ready access for...

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My husband tried to kill the germs
That lurk within our space.
He bought a spray-top Lysol and 
He spritzed around the place.

Now germs are rather clever things – 
Invisible and sly;
You never know exactly where
Their tiny...

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Loves complicated
seems we neglect details
keep each other feelings in perspective
sorting through details
getting it right
making it last
complimenting one another
meaning everything we say
in regards to one anothers feelings
we put our pride away
settling down
doesn't mean settling for anything
Love...

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I have been incredibly unwelcomed at my new position.
As a guidance counselor at a grade school one day a week.
This was told to me yesterday by the other counselor…
You have bus duty first thing in...

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V.I.R.U.S.
Very Infectious Radically Unifying Sickness

Ahh the disease of the sneeze
The spread of the dread 
The fear of being near 
Cough, cough and a ha choo 
Go away you sick one you 
How dare you not...

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Hands across the pond to the NPR,
When you give power to the truth
It's a beacon from afar,
We've got a message from the UK
Coming at you, forsooth,
So now feel me when I say,
From the Morning Edition
Get...

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The virus will fade in the summer heat.
It's Trumps hoax folks - it’s a joke folks.

Drink your Lysol and get back on the street.
Look, it’s a hoax folks - it’s a joke folks.

We can trade...

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