Long Millimeters Poems

Sun and traffic - day economy.
Six a.m. drive to plywood mill. Too tired
to be angry. Each day a step
toward death. What is being accomplished? The
small satisfactions
within each day. Book consciously read.
And frustrations. Package dropped, honey...

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Once again besieged by fruit flies

Pestiferous infestation quite
argh apartment unit b44 
plagued with plight
analogously linkedin to phenomena  
experienced within outer limits 
of the twilight zone
dark shadows akin to edge of night 
opportunistic nuisance might...

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I'm feeling good, so I think I'll kick some multi syllable rhymes,
It's a known factor that I flow in undefinable time,
Because I'm killing it, I'm at an undeniable height,
and if you don't like it then...

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"Im scared" I whispered, eyes big round and green,
Fingers twirling a strand of strawberry blond hair,
Twisting it around nervously, brushing pink blushing cheeks.

The sky dark with twilight, two stars overwatching us,
We stand millimeters apart beneath...

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4% mnm
Mountainous syllables can never really tread lightly across a rope bridge. But living in a cabbage house is fantastic fun for many leaves make many rooms and many rooms make much rubbish. Don't trip...

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Futile effort to plunger the clogged kitchen sink...
courtesy malfunctioning garbage disposal

which won't be removed
by onsite maintenance man
UNTIL/UNLESS 
fruit fly excreta wiped off
(impossible to access)
areas along bathroom and kitchen walls
so communicated "the warden."

Thus we (yours truly...

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Baltimore, 
again. 
8 AM, sweating, shaking 
on the verge of puking up 
stomach acid. 
the car is dead silent. 
are we early? 
are they late? 
is this how its going to be  
forever? 
who...

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These stories and their strategies
tend to remain untold
little bit by little bit
they change our world

Gathering their momentum
bit by bit become
too dangerously headlong
and inch by inch
become encroaching 
sneaking up behind you
when we all are sleeping

Little by...

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I’m tired all the time these days 

With aches and pains that show my age. 

Rusty springs, instill in me, this unfamiliar rage.

Logic still escapes me as air once clear, is filled with blame.

Smaller piles...

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HUMANS, ANTS AND SHADOWS

The smallest ants cast long shadows. . .

Little they are but see how discipline they can be
Millimeters apart, they all unify in a single file

It's a dismay that at some point
Humans, don't...

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Seven hundred and fifty millimeters between worlds-
Confined on one side,
the enormity of the ocean, 
a contradiction to the sand on which it sits; 
artificiality’s extravagance encompassed 
in a delicate 
bubble.

Just as its maker, 
Under azure...

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No matter how fast I run, or how high I climb,
It always escapes me, that being called “Time”

It is a cunning sparrow, taunting with each rasp
But with each step nearer, flies out of my grasp

Fleeing...

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Grounded are the feet that be in the elemental earth
Bounded we the legs that keep the motion of walks
Rounded is the dirt beneath as the pressure begins to mound
Founded the discovery to uncover knowledgeable talks...

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Pure white with golden font
Millimeters numbered just right
Thick enough only for distortion
Smooth to the tongue
Held perfectly at my fingertips..
But it'll slide right down your throat
A pill of death for a musician

The lump stuck for hours
Breakfast...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uqZhnqHMAg


The orchestra strains to be symphonic --- a bee in a tin box.
Cigar smoke thunders, molecules of sound wilt
only to be dialed up through brass lungs.
The combo is quaintly upholstered, a classic sports car
driven by...

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Four millimeters of tempered glass separates your world
from the Homeless Beggar Prince now standing before you 
appearing tattered, torn and trampled on like discarded trash.
No longer a viable phoenix rising to escape winter’s burn. 

Merely...

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I grew up with inches, yards, miles, and feet.
I knew the difference, it was easy, and neat.
But today I am far behind in the dust because
Metric scale is what the new math does.

Millimeters, centimeters, cha...

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Who Pulls The Trigger


The degree of difficulty diminishes
conscience and justice dim
the fog of zealous denial.
A trigger is squeezed
each millimeter
an agony
each millisecond
a lifetime.

Sharp recoil awakens reality
SCAN QUICKLY TO SLOWY
ACQUIRE TARGET, RESIGHT
resist the pressure
of the trigger
resist the...

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