Long Nine out of ten Poems

I JUST CAN’T HELP IT, YA KNOW?

Elderly Lady: Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!
First Alert: Duly noted, will there be anything else?
Elderly Lady: Are you going to call an ambulance?
First Alert: Ambulance? ...

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New Years Day 2017
A New Year, a New Start
St. Francis Hospital

Blocked from my memory is a segment of time. (a few days) I retain only angelic sounds from six songs, running not in succession but...

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St Francis Hospital
New Years Day 2017
A New Year, a New Start

Blocked from my memory is a segment of time. (a few days) I retain only angelic sounds from six songs, running not in succession but...

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All type of bodies are posing in front of me
All type of bodies are trying to attract me
Big bodies, round bodies, plump bodies
Rhythm-less body with no shape
Walking aimlessly around the place
I am not interested in...

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"Nine Inch Nails, Ten Pins and the Purl Stitch"



She takes the cake 
they offer, chewing too rapidly, 
she Shrews when she speaks 
I’ll beat warpath drums, she says, 
no mistake

I’m a groper ... goody two...

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Remember when suburban and small town stores were closed Sunday morn?  
Remember when they rolled up the sidewalk at night at nine-thirty or ten?

Remember when the attendant pumped your gas for less than 20...

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My life as I see it wasn’t easy, but I didn’t have it that rough,

I got my share of breaks, but it was virtually an uphill fight,

There were nights when the moon shirked its duties...

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I have been constantly sleeping a million minutes, my dear
I have wept about a million tears and I don’t feel cheer
I have crept a million miles just to smile ear to ear,
Waiting for some kind...

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Looking into my eyes you see a dying being
The monster that's inside of me dying from a variety
Of spices that is mixed in the bowl with society
Most have lied to me and they expect me...

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I saw a man the other day
while I was watching my TV,
he angrily proclaimed we should,
“Apologize for slavery!”
Now this struck me as quite bizarre,
for we did this long, long ago,
we fought a war to kill...

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The Task

The tornado that hit my desk, 
has collapsed everything...
into a sinkhole, 
which I doubt there is any...
coming back from. 
Maybe if I organized? 
If I could, I would...
or should.

It does not matter, 
the battle...

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The way his perfectly messy hair 
falls upon the back of his head
with his breathtaking smile
that knocks me dead.

He could captivate a crowd
with just his dimples and laugh,
but you couldn't understand
from just a photograph.

He texts...

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("The Heart of It #4", 2007, original oil)

The Good Heart

My hunch is probably everyone thinks they have a good heart
Since we are all humans with some degree of empathy.
But while it’s empathy that makes us...

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HOWLING DRAGONS 
PATROLLED THE SKIES.
IN SEARCH OF BEINGS 
WHO RECENTLY DIED.

A BLINDING LIGHT 
BEAMED UPON.
ONE MINUTE THEIR THERE
THE NEXT MINUTE GONE.

UNGODLY STENCH 
OF ROTTING FLESH.
FILLED THE SKIES,
EVEN ONES BREATH.

LIVING IN DARKNESS 
ELECTRICITY'S GONE. 
ONE THING...

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MARVIN BENET BLACKMON, JR.

Yesterday, as you remember, was just another day.
You played like a boy could with no worries in place.
Today you sing the gospel and your soul is fulfilled.
Benet, you are anointed to excel.

The...

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A myth and a fable can be found on a table. When an old man does look in an ancient book. Dragons and periodic charts do not mix. But historical inaccuracies a horse with wings...

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one white mouse runs out of a hole,
two black mice run up a pole,
raven caw caws from a tree,
she says one and two make three,
mother mouse is at the door,
she takes the mouse count to...

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It's not that we're better because we are not
Sometimes love is served better cold instead of hot
So nine out of ten it's mostly me
I don't always take it so easily
So I looked back on my...

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Never been there before
Never seen what it had in store
After today, never again
Will I give it ten on ten

On the score and sixth day of the eleventh month,
the neighboring country's diabolical terrorists did hunt
Over a...

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Be kind to yourself and you will be kind to others
Everyone has flaws, being yourself is what makes you perfect
If you learn to live in the moment the past won't rob your future 
Now is...

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Another brand new day has begun
Filled with exciting new things to do
Like shopping and spending piles of dough
I'm sure it applies to you

It's the way of the world, it's how it works
No one said it...

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I turn on the telly to hear the news,
just wanting to find out how the world goes.
Tho I don’t mind hearing the expert’s views,
or the weatherman’s forewarning of snows.

But it’s read over and over again,
and...

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Another brand new day has begun
Filled with exciting new things to do
Like shopping and spending piles of dough
I'm sure it applies to you

It's the way of the world, it's how it works
No one said it...

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