Long Milligrams Poems

A prawn masquerading as a peanut can be quite disturbing. So many times a peel is a garment used to shroud. A tentacle hidden. Here and there. Then to reappear with an often violent burst...

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I'm here to clarify 
My passions that I never defy 
Prescriptions of my essence
My drug is my vibe 
Addictions to what I do 
No cure to my being true 
My body is vacant of disease...

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What is the difference between a digger, a forklift truck, a spoon, and a toaster? None. Bread slices can be carried by forklifts and bread can be dug by a digger particularly if ground. The...

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TOLD STORIES

Once there were stories told
About the rising and setting of the sun
The colour of the moon
And the forming of dawn
Once there were stories told about the streets
And about the heart of the ghetto
Once there...

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Don Johnson’s Heart Attack fix
Oh he drank and he smoked and lived through a war,
His arteries were blocked so they said,
Massive heart attack got him, almost for sure,
Chest tromping horses , walking the more,
Almost crushed...

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I am putting out a beacon on the A-M, I Am Legend morning double-dutch
Pepsi cola, paranoia, post-exilic high school drama. Stop.
Is there anybody out there, I’m hoping you can hear me
Break the door, cover down,...

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I could’ve been a boxer, measuring milligrams per pound
So I’d know exactly what it’d take for a K.O. in the first round
I throw punches in the shadows ‘cuz I’m faster than light
And I’m still making...

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Three-hundred milligrams
Approximately one-hundredth of a fluid ounce
Three-hundred milligrams of water a day, I’d die
Three-hundred milligrams of caffeine after three
I find myself staying up all night
Thinking of you.
What else is there to think of?

How something measured...

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It is so hard pretending you’re someone you’re not, because you’re so far from what 
I want and need you to be.
Like an oxymoron we sit in the same sentence knowing we both don't belong...

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This pill, unable to think well.

Take this quill, dip it in an ink well and spill what I will.

Dazed and confused.

A brain bruised and abused.

Misused mind moving like pond water.

Stagnant

Talking like the Godfather.

Leaning back, staring...

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The languid petals of addiction fall in a silent way;
they do not scream or keen, but wrap insidious mind-vines

around all that you are, soft as a smother of snow.
And no one speaks of it, tongue-muffled....

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Lovely dreams; purple caribous and pink giraffes amid marvels placebo cycles....

Twineful fertile world always trying to inject its truisms twinkling 

Twenty milligrams of cloaked melancholy; and misery loves company?!

As gazing into the storefront window at...

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Espresso and billows of cigarette smoke
start your life each day, to underwrite and
elevate the squeaky neurosis you display.
Freud and Prozac and Xanax keep you level
but flat, add 60 milligrams of amphetamines
to get your motivation back.

Some...

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The sorrow is too much,
I just cant take it.
I need some kind of crutch,
something to break it.

Happiness escapes me,
there's nothing of the kind.
I must break free,
free my mind.

This needle does the trick,
Filled with bliss.
Just that...

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Twenty-six milligrams of toothpaste, a coffee jar and a liquidised elephant could never be caught in a net. Neutralizing even a dopey dog barking loudly. And a curtain CCTV closing and opening. Dishes discussing dangerous...

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Twenty-six milligrams of toothpaste, a coffee jar and a liquidised elephant could never be caught in a net. Neutralizing even a dopey dog barking loudly. And a curtain CCTV closing and opening. Dishes discussing dangerous...

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Ninety-nine Milligrams

Corners and shadow, in silence so long
This is my world, it is my own
Does not conform to conventional guidelines
So they labeled it autism
Fools, they are so close to the truth yet so far
Reality is...

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