Long Musts Poems

Commodities calmly caressing. Calling carrots. Calling capers. Calamity is not an injested window wiper nor a window sill so dare to jump off a pinnacle to declare justice. Arachnid akmed. Duty done. Swerved to serve....

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MY CLOUD by JOHN G. LAWLESS


I don’t remember asking…..			
yet I am still hearing a babbling brook
of mindless chatter rolling pebbles
through my ears and across my mind.
Noisome, acridly scented, sounds,
a Charlie Brown like… wah–wah-wah
droning in the...

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no one saw it coming they never do
the phone poles were giving off sparks
dogs began to howl birds flocked to the sky
A Plymouth hubcap of immense proportions
quivered and droned in the air over the capitol
television...

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I was 21 when I met you,

You painted my heart of pale grayish blue,

I remember the night how you entirely kissed me,

Our love was the best but full of uncertainty.

 

Ruthless crazy things were done...

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Religion-propped ~~~ toward virtuous deed
I thank my parents’ example indeed
Instilling, imparting practical creed
“Do good works; and such will God bless to breed.”

With that perspective, I learned to do right
Midst litanies of dos, shoulds, musts, oughts-plight
Making...

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outside
inventoried oval-stoned
cathedrals appealing
chiming crimes of passion
woke citronella
fog
hung in cement-hamocked snowdrifts
cloaked slow on slick-stained windowsides
tenement sheets
with the pomegranate notes
of rhythms unrhymed
   while all the uptown laundromarts
rising up
from insomniac-scrambled sidewalks
corked-copper moon tumbling earthward
like a sweet
sweatshredded...

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We are all looking for the one thing to inspire
We are all on the same path, different stops waiting for the universe to conspire
embedded in our souls from the birth of our understanding 
The want,...

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So I believe in many things but i also believe in not many things.
I believe that there are people who come and go in and out of your life to teach you something at that...

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To see the world turned upside down
Takes change indeed, and lots!
More men like Jason bring this change,
But not those Argonauts.

For this is not of flesh and blood;
It’s not an earthy fight.
The dark, upended, rolled away,
Is...

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I Can’t Understand Why I Stay So Fat

By Elton Camp

I know that weight loss is the way to do right
So, against too much bulk I constantly fight

It’s to the track to jog at least three...

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The pressure seems to build inside,
With the endless tasks and duties,
The heavy weights I must stride,
The perfect grades and tidy room,
All the chores and practices galore,
The heavy yoke of "shoulds" and "musts",
Weigh heavily on this...

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truth Bails, lies Bills
the Purest speech from the Heart is a cry
Prudent leaving lengthens 'Life is Short'
Life has MUSTs to be done. 
Don't fail to do or else,
Life will fail you suddenly sadly
nothing is Right...

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Some men's the brain, packed on the rest
Some are down, others on top
Every moment dancing, drinking to the best
Think what can turn, coupled soup to drop

Some men's brain, with their posited tune
Like black pigmy pigs,...

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~ Practicing for an address 
           at our local senior center ~

I stand before you today
  with no magic words to say
They complain: We're...

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There abated consumed lust 
Dusting the shelf
Off from molding musk
Due to LOVELESS rust
Lovingly I trust do fuss

With heart felt musts
Relinquish all to love
Do send loving tidings 
This one day

Come this way come to
Stay falling far...

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I am the crazy man
   I do my best to do what I can
      to see all that lies at my hand
      ...

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Optimism pranced up and down in hip hugger bellbottoms
Joy resonated from those who wanted peace not war
Gratitude basked from the corners of those who had not been drafted
It was 1969, and we were in our...

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Mommas sorry I took you from
The only life that you knew of

Mommas sorry I took you away
From your world of friends of every day

Mommas sorry you had to adjust
To brand new teacher’s and studious musts

Mommas...

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In the stillness of morning
I can truly cherish
each sacred moment
as I am all too well aware
that it won’t last much longer
the phone will ring
everyone will soon rise
the musts and wants awaken
tugging for attention at my...

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Life bustling all around me
As fast and unhinged as I once was
Seems crazy that I was caught up
Entranced within the walls
Of that fanatical maze
Sold on the idea
More is better and faster is smarter
That’s a pace...

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We are climbing the stairs
that lead to your life.

A door tilts open, spilling your image
from the stains on the wall.
Urine musts the heavy air. We see
you now, a leather hull jerking
to the dull frenzy of...

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Back of the church
in the dusty pews
in a passing whisper
God said "OOPS"...
I'm sure he said it
with no "amen"
then I heard God say
"OOPS" again.

I sit in the back
near the too heavy door
cuz when I sleep
I tend...

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Lithesome lines of rapturous rhymes and torrid truths,
Written with piteous pleas and tantalized tease;
Left to others' wits to be interpretive sleuths
Of our loves, lusts, confessional musts and envies.

Rhythm ripping or cadence caressing penned words,
Weeping a...

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