Long On a short leash Poems

I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.

My beaming spouse leads me, a dog on a short leash, into the forbidden citadel, the...

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I'm the good bad cop,
I'm good at being bad
My partner is the bad good cop,
he's bad at being good
We make a good team,
we put a scare into the bad guys
Both of us love reading them...

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Incorrigible Recalcitrant - Doppelganger (mine)

Ala Goofus and Gallant 
highlights my diametrically 
divergent alter egos
always the reserved 
obedient docile boy
afeared to stray outside narrow

circumscribed comfort zone
figuratively tethered
extremely short leash
choked me like yoked oxen,
albeit non red dually...

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Entrapped with Wires

Hands bound behind my back

Enslaved

The wires go on for miles 
 
Covering every inch of our city

Vibrating with electricity. Humming excitement 

Our happy little friend??

NO

WE

Like a dog on a short leash

Tugged by ...

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So thankful to know the love of my sweet little boy 
He's certainly nothing short of a miraculous bundle of joy 
Like his sister, he's such a beautiful gift from above 
He fills my heart...

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...You have a right to trial by jury,
and a presumption of your innocence,
you have a duty to respect other’s rights,
not commit crimes against women and men.
To surrender if you’re done the deed,
take responsibility for your...

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He held on to your frail love
with a velvet iron fist
Scarlet finger imprints ... bruised bracelet
on your wrist
showed you the depression bends
of his obsessive love
How deep, how sick ...
How twisted below 
his vile bile desires...

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I collect the money each and every night 
Occasionally check with the Johns to ensure the service was alright 
A smack or punch in the face keeps them in line 
I keep a short leash...

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All the big dogs out barkin' their song
older cats strollin' just playin' along
hipsters out mellowin' chill for the day
jipsters shout yellin' pronouncin' their trade
the young whelps sit curbside awestruck in dreams
fast money escalades cascading in...

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They watch him like a Broad-wing Hawk
In all his comes and goes
He invades their every thought 
Bugs them to the bone

He delights in the slip and slide
Like a greased pig in their grasp
Thinking they've got...

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I'm not much attached to this body,
it feels like it's on a short leash
while the brain drags it around
like a reluctant old dog.

Long cantankerous years
have pummeled it into a shape
it never used to own, never...

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"Cat got your tongue?"
-- a grinning Cheshire to a vast clowder of feminist felines

*   *   *

Domesticated pu*sies tamed to iron, wash, and dry --
as well as countless itty kittens bitty mittens...

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In my eyes 
You are the only prize of the flesh ive ever wanted

So warm 
And wanton
Yet numb until you’ve heard my voice

A soft sound spilling from my throat 
Brings color to your cheeks
What would...

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DIAPER RASH

They took me out again
on a short leash
bag ready
just in case.

I had been trained
not to go
in the house,
to be subservient
to my masters,

repeat only
what I’d
been taught

regurgitate
the answers
sought.

They taught
I learned
by rote
and then……

they removed
the diaper
shook out all
my...

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No more babies to make.
We're all done my wife says.
Get the scissors.
We have 3 of our own
All under 5,
4 total.
Why look so nostalgic towards babies 
Tinier than my 11 month old?
The kid's truck-sized,
Like wielding slabs...

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