Long Pedicure 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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A former friend of mine
tricked me into becoming
something I am not

The volunteer President
of our condo association,
a position I clearly cannot afford
midst trifling disassociations.

We were starting our Autumn tradition
of arguing about next year's budget
which typically continues
until...

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Alone at last, no one in sight
I cannot sleep, it’s late at night.
The moon shines bright, there are a million stars.
Venus is here, but make room for mars.

I wonder what’s this feeling I feel,
Is it...

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I sit here and watch you grow old, and half of the story has not be told, your rosy cheeks has reduced to bones and the sharpness in your speech is falling to the ground;...

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From the expression of love We hate 
those things that makes us uncomfortable.
Then, feminism comes to mind at once. 
Flayed heart beckon, 
systems governed  lust, 
another whitish world at heart, 
fragmented substances made us,
we're...

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Ever have one of those days
where you just have to get away
from the daily work grind...
where you can just kick back, 
relax a little,
and finally unwind,
tomorrow is that day for me
because I took a personal...

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Donkeys are never carried
Hens never miscarry 
Cows don’t hutch 
Pointing fingers, the norm
A person killed by his persona

My ego shadows my vision 
My fault lines… eyelided by ignorance
Ego contesting with my vision
Mission straying from vission
Literaly...

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My first major task today at 11AM on January 13, 2021 
finds me dropping my bride off for a pedicure appointment.
Rather than pick her up later, I decided to wait for her.
I spot a parking...

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Faraway Footsteps

How present
This past
Called memory

Hollow sole dragging
Hobnail boots
Caked with crud
Mud
And oil
Atop the landing
"Drop them greasy clothes"
Came the sometimes loving voice
The sometimes malevolent voice
But always his wife's warning
My mother's caring way

So many years past
When linoleum's impoverished...

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Granddad saved change under the paper in his dresser drawer.
We never dared to look and see how much he had to share.
He saved it there with a purpose; to give when I was there.
For a...

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First off let's make it clear I ain't funny
And I don't start conversations out with bonjour
But there comes a time in every mans life
Where he needs a good Man-icure

When you hit the age of me...

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First off let's make it clear I ain't funny
And I don't start conversations out with bonjour
But there comes a time in every mans life
Where he needs a good Man-icure

When you hit the age of me...

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It was you that made me feel this way, with your promises and your lies
And then when your promises weren't kept tears overflowed my eyes
It was you that made me question my beauty and my...

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They love me for the red, fullness, and curve of my lips.
They would love to pass their hands at the curves of my hips.

They would like to stay strong 
in the firm of my thighs,
It's...

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Destroyer vs' Gareth # 2

Gareth oh Gareth.
How have you been?
I took a look at your last hit
We both know your not gonna win
Although you are good, I admit
You have the honor to remove my gloves.
They...

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I HAVE LIVED
I HAVE NEVER sky dived, parasailed or zip-lined
I HAVE NEVER had a pedicure, manicure or facial
I HAVE NEVER smoked a cigarette or pot or done drugs
I HAVE NEVER chugged a “shot glass” of...

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I make the appointment all excited
for my feet look like my dads, uninviting.

I anxiously wait until the day of my arrival,
expecting...who-ha’s...claps...and grins.

None of this sort grabs me, instead it is
pick out color...pick out color...and then...

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Mister Miss

Mr. Miss is a man indeed.
He can't catch a cold let alone cold feet.
He lives in a house with his mother and sister.
Mom is named Louise Mister and his little sister is Missy miss...

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Mary Worth’s Secret

You’ll see her snow white hair
With a bound round bun in the back.
She’s traversing the shopping mall,
Un-noticed now by one and all.

Blue flowered calico is what she wears,
Black oxfords to protect old feet,
But...

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Although I know failure is success postponed.
That her refusal; my failure 
Implies that this is another way NOT to do this.
But I can't take this any more.

The other day I saw her doing her pedicure.
A...

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Ka-thump-a-loon, my pet raccoon,
sings opera in the woods at noon;
I love so much to hear him croon.
At night he carols to the moon.

If you are lucky you might hear
the songs he sings most loud and...

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An innocent girl with a ton heavy Saree

was wedding’s most looked up Naree

she had, or was on make up it was difficult to identify

ceremonies lined up; she gave her best try



good for nothing ladies gave...

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Man-I-Cure

It is 1918 and feet from the trenches require a shake up
Rotting and drenched by blood across enemy lines they
Shout ‘Peace’ and ‘This was the War to end all of the Wars’

A pedicure that is...

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Her life is not one of shopping malls,
those fancy purses, and shoes to match.
No her life is not fifty dollar hair cuts, and
manicures, followed with a pedicure, to show off her
french style toenails.  
Her...

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If my bare feet could talk 
I wonder what they'd say?
If we are in church
I wonder if they pray?

The miles they have carried me
the journey we have  made.
They are my source of transportation
each and...

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