Long Paging Poems

Deva Ossig, the landlady (and property owner) turned rogue

Just a couple weeks shy 
and seven years ago to the day,
I still remember contractual obligations
our previous residential abode
724 West Railroad Avenue, 
Bryn Mawr 19010 zip code
volatile...

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Daemons within gray matter of this male run amuck...

hence yours truly (me)
seeks mental health services 
without any luck
even after reading Scripture 
from my namesake who exuded pluck
after paging thru 
the AETNA Medicare directory,
whether a group...

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Reunion, Reunion I have to go
To meet those friends I used to know.
And talk about the days gone by
When we were young with spirits high.

But, all I found was a money speech
Asking for me to...

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Who would’ve Thought,
After being impaled by the spear of a lost love,
I’d still stagger on through life’s emergency doors
Though desperate for a heart thrombectomy
Paging Dr. Burke to perform mitral valve replacement,
With nothing but exit wounds...

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a limning rush of sinister 
     fiery angry flames bent avast
analogous copse, 
     where every limb bough, bore full 

     roaring furnace hot...

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It's most likely her being isn't brought for additional or spares 
Her calm paws gloating her beauty defining her sleep that is well made
The traveled heart looking so innocently pure it's as if heaven made...

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Nope reforming hardened criminal donning
scarred face, manacles jailhouse stripe, et cetera
nor taming screwish incorrigible guttersnipe
ain't most difficult enterprises
entailing me to wipe
dripping sweat from my hoary brow,

neither primary tsoris,
(i.e. Yiddish, asper in woeful gripe),
but reading tome...

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It seemed so long ago from those high school scenes,
  when we were young and filled with unimaginable dreams
  then again, maybe it was just yesterday still today
  ready for life to...

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The woman of my dreams is still undressed
in early morning woken up by light.
We make ourselves at home in this love nest,
convinced that everything will be all right.


The daybreak after fervent wedding night,
we´ll never quit...

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There’s nothing new under the sun,
It’s all been done, it’s all been done.

--I’ll make a sword also a gun!
The eighties called, it’s all been done.

--A film with car crashes for fun!
Won an Oscar, it’s all...

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The taste of life brings me to my knees
The blood once thawed begins to freeze
And I lay my head in the hands of the devil
As I touch the sentiments on a different level
Longing to breathe...

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I woke up early this morning
And then I let the dog outside
Then I fixed myself some breakfast
And I went out for a ride

The sky was looking funny
And the trees were pink not green
There were elephants...

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Growing Up Too Fast

Ever wonder what happened to what used to be?
The things we did when we were young and free

Reminiscing and paging through old yearbooks
Pointing fingers and laughing at old, embarrassing looks
Missing the way...

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‘At play with words’

Cork thine eyes 
Cloaking lucent verbose halls 
Surely binding shutting tight 

Cork thine eyes 
Clutching goblet sipping falls 
Drunk seduction bending sight 

Prose mine prys 
Gather up my scrolling drawls 
Paging through...

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Bounties advance spring has sprawled
Silvery gray skies with powder puff clouds
The last decline of winter has since been forgotten 
Sweet calls embark to gather a mate
Reminiscent of yester years 
Blushing seasons whispering a favorite tune...

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I was in matric,  class of seventy nine 
With so much to do,  I was losing my mind

The year before,  my baby brother came 
Since then, life was never the same 
Thrilled...

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I was in matric,  class of seventy nine 
With so much to do,  I was losing my mind

The year before,  my baby brother came 
Since then, life was never the same 
Thrilled...

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Her dreams are scissored 
Her hopes are shattered 
She groans to a deaf world 
Her ears are swamped with words 
She's stuck with the  bed 
While her peers are paging through the future
She is...

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there will be a baby crying 
in the next room, but not yet
people are still standing around
my bed and I'm still on my last breaths
they won't leave until I have gone
a brown leaf about to...

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Attention, attention! Paging Dr. Death
Your appointments here may I send them in
Go on you will see the sign it reads “fin”
Please, all the way down the last door on the left
The doctor will help you...

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it twas evereth the 14th 
and ladle had stilled consequence
perceptive decorum and froth's
constable would, could naught
cold heart and battled fart
bequeath to thee
a brothersome free
door and locksey 
leashed a board in mercy
a wait, as bait, beside...

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I apologize for sometimes being lazy 
having written down a poem that now translates to google voice paging.

I grab my tablet and hit display but lack the desire
to traverse the keys with my index pointed...

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Tornado swirl of colors
Whisking, whirling, swishing by
Sounds, sounds, speaking, calling
Paging, arriving, departing to sky
Dread of funeral destinations
Fear of business meetings forced
Anticipation of new places
Dreams of new life, planned and coursed.

Then appearance of a stranger
Seeking a...

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Meaning beating rhythmic patterns the letter X,
   an initial in my name
 It's a letter most people fear
  but once you know it dear
 Approaching it with-in it's text,
  it will...

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