Long Muff Poems

Once upon time's center
grows two permaculturing farmers,
multicultural mediators
of Earth's healthy polypathic remainder,

And, surrounding them,
seven elders
and their cheer leading mascot
of disabling foolery

Arriving each spring
in his wheeled chair
to witness
and sometimes loudly prophecy,
to entertain with his win/win intentions,
studying...

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(Part 2 - please see Part 1 first thank you)

And those of us who feel just plain lost in today’s modern world
Believe me you are not alone 
Might look at Dave’s life and think that...

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Thine distorted reflection rippled 
within rain maker's pool 
   upon a midnight clear
full moonlight sonata 
   flooded shallow abyss, 
cleaved fractal structures of silence 
reverberating deathly hallow from 'ere
to infinity, whence...

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Can somebody please give this uber muff fuller a lyft?
alternately titled: jump starter for clunky, junky,
quirky, xyz mechanic wanted in tow tow -
chassis what I mean?)

As the proud graduated
honorably rolled 2009 Hyundai
Sonata vehicular property
belonging to...

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TIME IS NO MSYTERY 
EACH AND EVERY SECTION HAS A SECOND
 AND IS HISTORY

this is my confused telling of my destiny
better dreaming of this calamity
and I am a visionary
or am I a visionary
and do I...

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OKAY? WHAT FIEND STOLE THY BODY ELECTRIC!?

thine distorted reflection rippled 
within rain maker's pool upon a midnight clear
full moonlight flooded shallow abyss, 
cleaved fractal structures of silence 
reverberating deathly hallow from 'ere
to infinity, whence magic...

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Court hiss sea hove The Irish Times,
     this hum mere ruck can bloke
kin esse spy climb mitt till impact
     desiccation ravaging with choke

hold thee aim rilled isle,
...

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A SAGA OF OLD EL PASO
AND LADY B GOOD
There was a famous lady of El Paso in the Old West
She hunted and trapped, trading furs with the best

Her pride, her joy, a red velvet cape...

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One Liners 4 (can you believe it)

For Sale: Parachute. Used once, never opened, small stain
Definitely a sales pitch, stain is quite large
When people tell you how young you're looking lately
They're also telling you how old...

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For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain
Definitely a sales pitch, the stain is very large
Remember half the people you know are below average
You're bloody well right, you're still in charge

Okay Scottie, now...

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Our pristine, prissy, upscale dining room was almost never used.
And now it can’t be used for eating, for it is slightly junked and abused.
Dining room table is so long, it started to almost immediately collect....
So...

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I found my love in granules,
In father of manuals,
On 13th of annual,
In teacher of Samuel.

I am drunk, still awake to drink his elixir of love.
I pass out, and return to life like flying dove.
In his...

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The camel musk entered my tent today 
a quiet sand storm arouse the warm 
wind settled outside white garments 
blew in the breeze i could hardly collect 

myself my thoughts were on American 
things like...

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(In late June, 1914, Austria declared war
on Serbia, thus initiating the First World War.
In Paris, this was ignored, because Henriette
Callaux had been found Not Guilty.  De
minimis non curat lex = "the law does not
extend...

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Conceived in hatred....raised in fear...!!!
I am a child who knows nothing...But tears!
If kinsmen you call those" who are your near"
I have a lot of siblings...all with the difference of an year..
We all are frightened...scattered!!..far and...

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Rhymes with “Stuff”
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Bluff is a cliff that above land is laid.
Bluffs are charades to win card games played.
Buff is a tint between white and brown.
Buff shines stuff; rub...

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American Dream Under Trump!

Have you tried retirement? Do you have the blues?
Your investments not liquid and yesterday's news?
If you're not in the top tenth of one percent? Yell!
The stock market's next bottom so low you...

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Jelly Fat
by M. Griswold
08272020

"Jelly fat!" you say "Just what exactly is that?"
Well, it's a little more than that li'l old belly fat.
It's all of yur all, you know, that li'l giggle stuff.
The li'l bit-o-fat that's...

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I walk outside after an 8 hour shift
Having no idea, it is a seventy-four degree day.
I am wearing my wooly hat, that covers most of my face,
And my coat is buttoned up to my nose.

How...

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I had fallen into the stereotype trap of labeling witches.
Not realizing the Grimm Brothers were way off their britches.
Witches Creed has always been “to no living thing do harm”.
They mean no harm to animals or...

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These urges
 These urges, tend to surge,
 when Im stressed, maybe its a mechanism to curb these thoughts  that grab my sub conscious and drag my emotions to the edge. 
So the only way...

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Right off the cuff
I’d say there’s enough - fluff
The pillows that puff
Are filled with that stuff - fluff
And that Twinkie cream puff
Just what is that stuff – fluff
And the girl with a muff
Her hands won’t...

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Far from the town and its bustling throng
knowing just where to go,
Sister and I are walking along
a pathway in the snow.

Down by the lake and over a fence
are hungry ducks and geese.
To their clamor we...

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Litter sisters playing hard
Romping round our big front yard,
"I will catch you soon sister dear."
"No you won't i have no fear,
I'll swivel here, then dart around,
You'll be left lying on the ground,
You can't turn as...

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Handful of damp earth
Bitterness that thick.
Mind in momentum tone,
Churning out a high pitch.

Dirt on the Casket

I don a new nights ocean
With muff-pillow screams.
"What if's" I spoke,
Teasing a dead hope.

Dirt on the Casket

Incoherent your compassion
Un-hearted goodbye,...

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