Long Overcooked Poems

"Monsters in My Head"



the small gods
inside of us
worry too much

they speak in tongues
that never know the 
depth of what is real or not 

for tongues 
they never think
they just have a taste for blood

trading gossip...

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My sweet mother of pearl struck a ruby eyed reef. 
Then quickly sank into the deep, just shy of the cay of life. 
Don't remember much about her,
Daddy never had much to say... about the...

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When you were eight years old
waking to another perfect day's dawn
what potential did you discover
with your co-empathy integrity 
of left-deductive
with elder right inductive
communionations?

Who were you
as you stepped into morning's warm spring sun?

How were you one...

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This is a colabration of Shane, Dhruv, and Deborah




Buzz, Buzz
catch the fuzz,
it's all a big fus this buzz,
heros of literature use good buzz words,
knock buzz, it's all a fuz
its time for all this fus,
quarel tantra...

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Raw emotions
Churns like oceans
In my mind's eye
And my heart's cry...
Is left unheard again 
Where have you been?
I will not worry 
I will not hurry
I'm just concerned and I want the best for you
My ego of...

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I notice the single placemat within the circle of noise,
Placing my phone on the cluttered side plate,
I can feel the Christmas spirit resonating through,
The crowd of extended families unwrapping each other’s joy,
A tear drops onto...

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It's because of the bacon.

Yeah, it looks good on the menu, sitting there at the rim of the plate. Glistening. Archetypally ridged and ruffled. Positioned perfectly next to the eggs over easy, the pancakes, buxom...

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Checking the lights on the dashboard when they flash and stay red:
it's the oil that needs to be changed or the engine that requires
maintenance, and in frigid temperatures who would venture outside and get frostbites?
A...

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The acrylic line pulled taught as he bit down.
The lake was so still as to mimic a black oil slick -
She suddenly breaks away and churns like an overcooked pot -
Ripples glide along the boats...

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Some said he was just a drunken hobo,
    others claimed he was a clown gone insane,
          where he was from, where he went,...

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Failed humans

The forest he traveled had many paths 
there was always something new to see
like a white tree that once wanted to be
the tallest one in the forest, but hubris 
had made it to lose barks and...

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“I fight the good battle!” I thought:
But a warrior
whether Christ’s or the Devil’s, or Self
is still “A blade held high” demon
of sorts, though the conscious motive
May be of highest righteousness--
the transformation of darkness into light.

The...

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I feel stale
Like a cigarette that’s been put out and relit too many times
An overcooked flavor of twice smoked dreams, fills every room.
When that blue haze of familiarity clouds my mind,
Add another coat of lipstick...

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Since you've been gone, I've been so sad 
The silence within these four walls is driving me mad 
No smell of burnt toast or overcooked eggs in the air 
Don't have to unclog the shower...

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Twelve months later
I’m struggling for a motivator
To get me up in the morning
My life at present is stagnant and boring

Mixed feelings about my ex-wife
Am I missing her from my life?
Yes I’ve dated many people
But none...

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He sliced her chest to free her soul
To witness the red marrow within she refused him
Loving the tension he overshadowed through her pure windows
He buries his anxiety into the depths of her hollow sorrow

She no...

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Once a year it cometh
All through the year we await
A time of expectant joy
The cynical say it’s a commercial ploy

Tis the time we aim to be happy
Tis the season for supposed love and cheer
Tis the...

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Her scrambled pessimism flowed like lava streams
Her yoke incubated more than just hopes and dreams
A alien world that resembled a festering wound
Smouldering ash, toxic gas was all that could be found
 
Her primordial soup had...

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The girl in the room doesn't crawl backwards on the floor of her room, she doesn't chop her hair off in edgy disfigured shapes to contain all the leftovers of her being. 
The girl in...

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It simmers. This constant invisible, hovering 
like a wasp in the forever periphery threatening 
lightning strike yellows, sudden and unbidden. It spills
and spools, down into black stripes melting and melding 
to pools of what could...

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Flying leaf. 
 
Tuesday I´ve looked in my kill list, but couldn´t find 
anyone to drone today, yet had time for the betting 
shop and won ten euros on a horse called Abdulla. 
In my...

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The Pig
The pig, also called swine is the most human of animals 
those who have tasted human flesh say it is not different
in taste and texture, but can easily be overcooked.
The domestic white person colour...

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Now, 
		If I decide
		Suddenly, today -
	                The meat is overcooked,
			          the...

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Childhood Xmas memories, mine are not so fine.
Daddy would overindulge in the Christmas wine.

Mother and the turkey never could get on.
The ham overcooked, boiled dry on Xmas morn.

Presents were a problem, so many to be...

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Begin with something positive;
no need to start out negative.
A writer needs encouragement;
it feeds their ego nourishment.
And what is strong about the piece?
Is there a spot that needs some grease?
Or did it flow like brooks in...

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