Long Pigeon toed Poems

Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated

Steely Dan sing queen (me)
outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary 
after Grahame Wood 
determined to meet 
the evolving needs of the community 
opened the first Wawa Food Market 
in Folsom,...

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Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again

Even when iron not red hot, 
I implement non customary quarks 
regarding foreigner rather cold as ice
namely delinquent outsize credit card debt 
mandates yours truly, 
a cheesy survivor who rem: members...

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Unrelenting blitzkrieg deadly
assault upon psyche
pounded defenseless
vulnerable mindscape accustomed
to shelter within aproned crease
mama proffered manna, especially

when untethered meek docile lad
subjected to blistering hellfire
infamous hoodlums wantonly unleashed
verbal bombardments lobbing poison
spear tipped invisible blackened barbs
manifold times more agonizing

piercing,...

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Four legs quiver
like clumsy cabrioles
striking smooth gray rivers
of zig-zag sidewalk barrios
in rhythm with happy shivers
syncopated on a muffled drum
as we talk and stroll

On our way
hand-in-hand
we persuade and pretend
this day away
taunting and cajoling to demand
laughing “hide...

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Captain Kuni-Lemel strikes again
(even when iron not hot, but rather cold as ice)

Yours truly a day late dollar short
dollars to donuts bonafide klutz
living testes mint procreative
seminal squirt biological reproduction,
could never conceive to abort
despite countless occasions,

I...

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A woman touching her hair a nice tell                           ...

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Scant animals with their glassy hoped-for eyes
draw near to my crumbling step.
I think they want to sing me something,
carol a Mozart aria perhaps,
but they cannot
so they lift furry eyebrows
shuffle as if to say, ‘we can’t,
but...

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Après le déluge 

Après le déluge, moi
2 1/2 hours to work in my car
It’s part of the game
And I’m grateful
Driving in circles
I am faithful
To my calling

What have you become?
What have you set your mind to?
What...

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Surely God is good,
Surely to Israel,
Surely God is good to Israel, 
Surely God to pure hearts,  
(please don’t call me Surely)
Soitenly God-Blessed are the dear-heart folks?
Who shall have attended God?

But 
As for me

I slipped,...

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Slim was pigeon-toed and bow-legged from allus bein' astraddle,
Of his faithful hoss Old Dan and his well-worn creakin' saddle!
He'd spent 30 years gazin' twixt Old Dan's ears ridin' the spread.
Now both is retired and he...

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My mother (a bleacher of bloodstained sheets)
bleaches my dreams the color of bones,
and feeds me on snakes and dirty slate stones.
She winces each time I walk through the door,
a mere apparition (though we’ve done this...

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ClaraBell was the schoolmarm over yonder near Little Creek
Taught the young'uns for more years than she'd care to tell
They called her 'n old spinster, but what folks didn't know
Was that ClaraBell had loved Slim fer...

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And there were four sisters
                      one of the sewed
one was bow legged
  ...

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KJV. Eph: 4:32. And be kind one to another, 
                   tenderhearted,....

There is a legend that's been told
of...

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And be kind one to another, tender hearted.

There is a legend that's been told
of a spider who was pigeon-toed.
A weaver by craft and crafty he was.
Friendly to all, that was his cause.
He knew them by...

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An unsettled soul seemingly always chasing propaganda 
voice from the equator, a quarter of a roar but heard in Uganda
he’s a member of a serious interaction, that’s a fake platform
on reputation’s policy, he can’t just...

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I crawled and stayed low as I could,
Wanted to be punished for being anything but good. No boundaries in place before I took a walk around the world complete in a block,
Never knew that being...

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There was Snoopy and Odie,
Beethoven and Benjie
All the dalmatians, who caused a great freenzy,

But do you recall........ The most Famous Pug Dog of all........?


Jackson the flat nosed Pug Dog,
Had a very flattened nose
and if you...

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The barnyard was a twitter.
“She is walking pigeon-toed!”
“You should see it.”
“She thinks she is all that!”

I am dragged out to see.
After listening to them cackle like only hens can do.
There are sixty-six hundred chickens out...

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The Rocking Man

	Three tables away there sat a rocking man.
	He smiled at all and no one,
	Exacting just an occasional worried look.
	Rhythm out of sync with mundane music, 
	Oozing out of hidden speakers.
	Cock-eyed stare through glasses...

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Pigeon-toed and knock kneed
they meander around the ponds edge
an ungainly duo
mother and son
like an ancient fertility figure
found in the caves of Lascaux,France 
she tumble-waddles
pendulous breasts bobbing
the dough-like basket of her womb
long emptied with its navel...

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