Long Pigsty Poems

If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch

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Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?

Isn’t it silly, Willy...

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Speechless at Auschwitz
by Ko Un
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

At Auschwitz
piles of glasses
mountains of shoes ...
returning, we stared out different windows.

Ko Un speaks for all of us, by not knowing what to say about the...

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Computer science is abbreviated as "comp sci." 
Comp sci is so hard it gives you a sigh. 
Computing is everywhere in the world of sci-fi. 
Network is so prevalent these days you can't get by...

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I asked her to reconsider her decision to leave and she said what I think was eather " Go to hell or Lil Gary goodbye !"
So I waited till she pulled out of my driveway...

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Christmas Day has arrived; the thought fills me with such dread
For over twenty years they’ve come to me; it's doing in my head!

I get up at the crack of dawn to get the turkey in...

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The sow beauty queen’s 
favorite color is money green
The cloven jaw cutie’s
favorite sound is “cha-ching”

Miss Piggy Lips loves how the cash registers
throughout the land constantly rings

That jade oinkment noise
is a pigmentary salve to her greedy...

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The time when Juno excruciated was 
Due to Salome against the Theban blood,
As many times was shown to be the cause,

Atamante became so insane and crud,
That when his wife with two sons saw
To go on...

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Here before the grace of God go I !

I wasn't born into a pigsty 

Or my 1 daily meal did not have to be fetched 

Off the back of a charitable relief truck

Or pray the...

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Evading feral branches and pools of stagnant stuff.   
I'm taking the short way home ,  
Greasy grass and soaking anarchist weeds saturate my feet,  
I'm frozen to the bone  all...

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 Pyrrhic revenge

They’d eaten his books, his clothes and lean paper money,
Whetted their teeth against his coins and an old jar of honey.
They’d blown cold air nightly, as they gnawed whilst he slept,
Eating bits of...

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He adored her. His blubbery lips
drooled at the sight of his love.
Her beauty seared his mind
a fiery arousal beat upon
the slopes
of his low, low brow.

He was quite the beast of a man -
a galoot, the...

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The grumpy principal athwart the class
is walloping the learner ad infinitum
with his computer cable,
and screeching his lungs out
his wrath and his tranquilities;
he says she’s late for school yet again.

Madly she pulls across the desks;
pleads for...

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A herd of pigs was locked in the walls,           
They can't go over to see the outside truth
And can't make a free walk  ...

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Sometimes I Gotta Laugh, So I Don't Cry
Am I the punch line for life’s cruel joke?
Bad luck follows me, don’t ask me why
Oh geez, I think I’m gonna need a smoke

Moved to a small town...

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As dawn starts to streak across the sky
heralding in the new born day.
Feisty rooster already perched on the wall
giving forth with all his might, he crows.

Sleepy hens, ducks and geese scat for worms.
Low moos emitting...

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Listen up lowlife, I make greatness look trite,
Arrogance so far below me, I’m way out of sight,
The whole world’s something, stuck to my shoe,
Never wear mainstream, only designer brand new. 

Could not care less, weather...

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If you can`t stand a lies anymore-
These unnoticeable, tiny bullets... 
Let`s go to the church, open the soul...
But, with faith we were also deluded... 

Tell about a pain, hidden inside...
Let it go, it`s destructive, when...

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Farmyard Chat.

Cluck, cluck says Mrs Hen as the farmyard comes to life.
Moo, moo says Big Brown Cow as she spots the farmers wife.
AH, she'll be coming a milking then send us out to graze
with Sheep...

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Verbum Caro, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Verbum Caro by T. Wignesan

Glory to the resuscitated Lord
Incarnate cry of the Flesh becoming Verb
The body is not the place of death
Where the soul feels alright despite revulsion

He who...

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Amazing how the pearls are flung
Before the swine these days, and I
Can hardly understand any
Decision to do so by otherwise
Enterprising individuals.
Funny how the swine devour the
Gifts of insincere folks who cast
Handfuls of nuggets their way
Ingratiating...

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Hello, moss-covered dirt suckers,
it’s a darkly new dawn
for a good autumnal leaf chew

Mulch to do ‘bout nothing,
Jack-o-Lanterns all want a toothy kiss
We’re living in tricky times,
so treat yourself to some hallow hubris

Mephisto risque morbid masquerade
sho’...

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I’ve loved your face, night and days of changing milk rays
Sighs in blue and black, of times gone back; now so slack
Love surely does wane, then mind’s sane…what’s to regain? 
And the road, in dirt’s...

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I Stand By
The Reason Why

It was not me that made you cry...

As you were the one with a hard head
You the one that always said
That you had made your own bed
And I can go sleep...

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They were the don’t dos
And we loved them like family
Only better

We don’t do dishes
We don’t do chores
We don’t do cleaning
We don’t do more

They lived in squalor,
They lived in a mess.
They lived in a pigsty
Their house...

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Around the room I look today,
I see that things are all array.
Messes here and messes there,
Everything is everywhere.
Disorder on the tile floor,
Dirty fingers on the door.
Balls of dust under the bed,
Junk is strewn in the...

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