Long On base Poems

CRISIS SESSION FBI HUMAN RESOURCE DIVISION NON-REDACTED
FBI: HELLO WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY

AGENT BROWN: HELLO THIS IS AGANT BROWN AND THAT DARK PLACE IS RETURNING AGAIN I AM IN CRISIS AGAIN 

FBI: OKAY WE ARE HERE...

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Sixty-eight and Sixty-nine
By Franklin Price
02/03/2022

In January sixty-eight, I was sent to Vietnam,
Was no internet back then, no Facebook, only Spam
I went to serve my country. Had signed the line in sixty-five
Going there to do my...

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Never count your chicken before they hatch because you cannot tell what is hiding around the back, never build your hopes too high or place your dreams above the sky, when in doubt, do your...

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Quy Nhon and The Tet Offensive
By Franklin Price
9/2/2018

Quy Nhon and the Tet offensive, more than fifty years ago
That Chinese New Year changed our world and most its ebb and flow
Until that day the boonies were...

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GROWING UP ACROSS THE STREET FROM 
TIGER STADIUM HAS ITS ADVANTAGE
AND DISADVANTAGES.
BEING A YOUNGSTER 
HOT HUMID MUGGY SUMMER NIGHT.
DETROIT MICHIGAN.
JULY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND 73
WOULD TURN OUT TO BE A VERY
COLD
NIGHT.
IN THE MOST UNTHINKABLE WAY.
RUNNING AROUND...

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I leave buying food at the market to the spouse...

one helluva comparative
humdinger savvy shopper,
who can rattle off the best buy
for most any given item,
at the drop of a hat
analogous to baseball fanatic
(unlike myself who knows...

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dogs that left faux paw prints extant within me life 

lids black out and allow me to write
about a petty issue ye aye in vite
while eyes shut tight
bring back four legged friends sprite
and though many...

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Northerners are heading south 
Blue and Orange in an east coast bout 
Right now individuals who are sweet and peach 
Relaxing sunning on a Tampa Bay beach 
Not showing power 
To those folks on an...

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They are running from camp to camp, carrying all that they have, big bundles mounted on their head with an appointment to meet the dead.
A few weeks ago, they had a fortified home with maid...

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lids black out and allow me to write
while eyes shut tight
bring back four legged friends sprite
and though many years passed quite

I can remember those precious creatures 
   who barked at night
howling at inaudible...

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Midnight darkness suddenly descended upon the city as morning peeped through the blackened sky the city waits in suspense to die. 

They have been working for several days battening up windows and doors as if...

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It was January '68
Chapter 2 – Phan Rang - 1st TDY
by Franklin Price
3/5/2019

Raking sand got old real soon
Was not why I came to war
My job was not for combat
The reason why I thought was more

Before...

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Game 5 starts with a bang, a base hit then home run by Pearce right away
Red Sox are 2 to 0!  Go Sox – Yay!
Then the Dodgers come back with a home run on...

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Mr. Cub, take me out to the ballgame! 
 
                         ...

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The sunset dazzles with delight
It is eerily beautiful sight
Against wavy clouds in the linen sky there is golden light
The vastness of the sky and ocean beneath it is underlined by the light

Soul aches as it...

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How would I begin to define happiness?
Am I the right scribe to ask?
I've struggled with depression longer than I haven't now
But I noticed something today

And it's not the first time I've noticed it
It's stunning, really,...

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Copyright 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
POETIC LYRICS BY THOMAS LAM HSI ANDRESS
(Chinese, Vietnamese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Lithuanian...
'Three-DNA' Tests Show!)(Currently...Six Feet and Two Inches Tall...on my
way to Six Feet and Four Inches Tall & 250...

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Pyramid is shaped like triangle and maybe that is why
It reflects the visage of the sky
In it pharaoh’s body will lie
So his soul to the heavens can fly

But maybe pyramid is not just a tomb
Maybe...

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I step up to the plate and the first pitch is tossed.
Strike one is called out, but I feel a little lost.
I see the audience but things are not as they seem.
They come and they...

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Plight of the Computer >

Behind that display
Where the work is never done
You give me order after order
I process line by line
But appreciation is dead
You just want it done in time

Chrome.exe? 
Now there’s a surprise
You were...

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Perchance, happenstance, my sailor found me
as I arrived (a package deal) but I stole his heart
and wouldn’t share, though some so-and-so tried.
She’s lucky she’s still alive. Thankfully my sailor
couldn’t be bribed. He was revived, not...

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Eye of the tiger among forest mist
Is it evolution or is it God made this beast exist
Or jaguar with that has a bite force caiman’s armor cannot resist
Or hornet with its demonic speed often seen...

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Magnetic anomalies
Often tied to a crystal
That submerged with Atlantis
In Bermuda’s Triangle

Flight 19 left Florida
Routine military squad
Training mission, planes on course
‘Til pilots saw something odd

Sea met sky; which way was up?
Compasses spinning about
Then radio transmissions
They were...

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Tim made his way to play home plate,
 a smile now brightened wide his face,
 good blow and he would be on base.

His team now trailed, the innings late,
a home run might help tie the...

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Crawling down the tunnels
Of Chu Chi
I could almost imagine
The Viet Kong guerillas 

Hiding deep under the tunnels
As the land above is turned
Into a temporary dessert 

With the vegetation burned off
By napalm and agent orange

The Viet...

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