Long Plushy Poems

(after Edgar Allan Poe's "The Angel of the Odd")

It was a tidy day and I sat, replete, under vellux blankets.
Sadly, my tea was weak, the bottle of cinnamon whiskey
tantalizingly low, and my feet swelling above...

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I've fallen flat on my face 
And I can't get up
I wanna leave this place 
But I gotta pick my face up 1st
Looking in the mirror has become the worst
Cause I gotta look at this...

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Written: January 08, 2024
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Thin walls allow us to hear whispers
"..you are enough...."
everything fall 
      and  ...

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The junk drawer of my mind processes MOMENTO, like golden Ark Dulcimer, Cimbalom that shatters the font of unfinished sound, into pixels of mime, song bound, PUZZLE PIECE orchestrated by the filter of Time

In swirling...

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Mr. Wiggles the stuffed “punk pig” , he wasn’t always this way. Before the safety pins in his little nose and “Dead Kennedy’s” patch on his soft, fuzzy, pink back, he was a loving, clean,...

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With baggage behind and baseless excuses why they were not the one
It was my first trial as lead council but I knew the case seemed proverbially dim
And if you asked me they had every piece...

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Estate sale, treasures only to those who once lived here. 
Stories long ago forgotten, maybe to never be told.
A somber event, people move wordlessly, occasionally whispering a “sorry” as they wait on the stairs.
We are...

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A cowboy don't need no plushy pew or a rantin' preacher,
Pontificatin' from his pulpit aerie as his spiritual teacher!
He gits his religion from (to him) a more gratifyin' source,
Cherishin' God's Great Creation from the saddle...

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DEVIL AMONG US or just MANY FACES


Hebrew described Satan as adversary,
Not a sole individual that you should worry.
But they walk among us.
They talk among us.
Never noticed? I doubt it;
As they drop their despicable bomb among...

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Blood
crimson
not called by
any other 
name

Bud 
perfect 
crown petal
Donald's girlfriend
bold 

Gold
sun rise
Mary's joy
orange sun sets
red

Moth
and queen
corsages
colorful blooms
large

She
naked
lilies kin
belladonna
pink 

Blue
purple
red and white
sun worshipers
pig

Quaint 
fancy 
velvet tufts
ostensible 
face

Liz
easy
popular
multicolored
shade

Dull
deadly 
poisonous
insipid bush 
fruit 

Snap
charming
all colors 
incandescent 
spikes

Dawn
fragrant
vine climbing
red, blue, purple
tall

Wax...

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a green forest canopy and all that lies beneath 
all the beauty one adores right between the eyes 
soaring birds, strong eagle wings, swooping trees 
emerald ferns and fairies, full of fairy dust 

all the...

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It was a sizzling summer of electric blues and vibrant hues 
in  a garden full of flowers inked in plushy spanking reds 
a wall of buttress wood splashed with vines of green 
a purple...

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“Don’t water your lawn!”
They told me.
There’s a shortage of water and
we need to conserve.
Yet, I saw fire hydrants open
and water flowing like a spring.
Kids skipping and dancing
getting wet and cool.

“Don’t water your lawn!”
It came again...

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Music by: Tim Nast 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ubQgJoayY

A flower dances in the sunlight close to me 
with with every breath I take, a tendril petal falls 
across the fields of memory , a daisy still...
Emerald grass, plushy ...

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