Long Oddball Poems

Note: This is the 2nd half of one of my MANY long story works, and the 1st half can be accessed, of course, at "poems by Mark Stellinga" on the soup.
My wife and I were...

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Here's the deal, folks...
   This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts. 
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This is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other way I could manage to make it...

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Genuine Fecklessness Exemplifies Despondent Creature Because...

Lackluster life lived
     as each subsequent day,
a carbon copy
of the one before,
though far from
being clinically depressed, this boar

ring guilt ridden Capitalist decries
    ...

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Brains in this group were graded according to a binary system. 
1 winner  0 as in loser.
A hypnotic mantra often - 
 “Winner, loser, hopeless chooser.”
There were even signs such as a straight finger...

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I hear them talking as I open my eyes, 
a hazy something lingers on my lips like lava, 
threatening to erupt. I hear question then answer, 
then questions plural follow up:
detectives discussing something green, something...

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Football, volleyball, baseball, softball, 
Racquetball, handball, basketball, hardball. . . . 
There're lots of sports in the world you play with a ball, 
And you can't play any of them if you're an oddball. 

If...

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Have you heard about my renowned uncle, Gladys
Who by sexual makeup had an Aunt’s status.

Well, he or she, you can use whatever you want;
Like I just said, this uncle is loosely an aunt.

Anyways, she had...

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Some people frankly write about their quirks.
If I had any, I would tell you so.
Though no outlandish trait within me lurks,
some folks think I’m a nut. What do they know?

Why do they criticize when I...

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A perfectly functioning mind is an amazing contraption!
 

If oddball facts are not “your thing” - the one I’ve just discovered, and which I’m going to share with you - aware that it may boar...

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The sky is crying…
Like a gentle southern rain,
Falling, pouring, pounding out a beat
In rhythm with the memories,
The tunes of forever that we played,
History’s not winning, though….

The sky is crying…
Like the storms across the night,
Silencing the...

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Come out of your cage you prisoner you poet
You follower of false ideas
You fiend that feeds the idols

Come out of your cage you once free spirit in foul fitting straight jacket
You hollow hearted hellion with...

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Stop resenting me
For the way I shop
The things I do 
To make sure 
My  food is fresh

I confess I feel blueberries
In my fingers
To make sure they are firm
Not too ripe

I confess I shake 
Cans...

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Two Freaks

Two freaks sat by the side of the road.
Ostracized by all their kin.
People laughed as they passed by;
At the very sight of them.

One was twisted in body and soul;
With hair like a dandelion.
The other...

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ODDBALL.

I couldn't see you close,
When you were here before,
you are in a special world,
your flawless skin makes you exclusive,
your slender light body floats
I yearn to be beautiful like you,
I'm stuck in this gruesome island,
I am...

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An occurrence that exists in
all  walks of our life's happenstances
Some will cheer for you, others
give you despicable glances,
Still others, as here, deride you in comments.

It's a place people work for...filled 
with lack of sleep!
It becomes a...

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Goliath the frog was gigantic in size,
often ridiculed out of despise.
 
He measured as high as six feet tall
and labeled the number one oddball.
 
But one day, at Frogville's annual event,
intruders stormed in with malicious...

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All of us travel through time
We are all born at different times
We are all in our own space and time
When we cross into another person’s space and time

They come to life to all of our...

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I was a little girl with a tattered ragdoll,
       and I lived in an attic that was not tall;
          ...

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Hidden in my heart are her words...as the world twists like a whirlwind she stays beside me in the storm
she stays from start to finish...from daylight into dark
when madness makes its monstrous cuts,slashes,and marks...
she stays...

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What about this year,
where will I go
I'm not like them
They're just for show!

I'm losing heart
I used to care,
they never write
or call, or share!

The persons that I love the most
are far too busy to play host
it...

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Their faces are still there;
caricatures and cameos,
amigo mugs and jug ears.
Cheering, jeering chums
that would phone at four in the morning
to garble drunken thoughts,
make momentous plans,
or borrow ten quid.
The oddball humorist
and part-time suicide,
the drama queen
contesting her...

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sernetta was strange I thought, an oddball.
born with a caul I heard, born with a caul.
on the afternoon of the Omaha Squall.
she made a date with her cousin squirrely Paul.

frankly I think this took tremendous...

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Smokey mountains and gloomy haze
23 long years of wandering in this maze

Equipped with martial arts and kung~fu moves
But simply just one of the various noobs

Stupid techniques and strategies irate
Both lead to undecided fate

Frosted roof~tops with...

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Trump Not Capable
 
According to abnormality listed on label
Trump is not capable of remaining stable
Off his handle several times often will fly
Never see tears in his eyes or him cry.
 
He seems to hold everything inside
And all...

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