Long Pool table Poems

Dolly was beside herself with thoughts 
Of this powerful man,  Damian Possessing 
Her.  She wandered around his
Spacious apartment before 
Returning to his bedroom 
to sit on his bed. 
Damian was ready and dressed...

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September  2017 continues:

Damian was preparing to leave his
Girlfriend's house. Damian said,
His farewell. Then left the Giovanni 
Premises. Meanwhile the Hakim
Family uncles included, concocted a
Crucial crucible plan to get a grip 
On the Damian conundrum....

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Date:  June  2051

Adian Elijah Abbas Ashton  and 
Addison observed the men working
On the Waterfalls and grotto. 
Elliott and Abbas were busy diving 
Into the pool. Damian was the 2nd
Level supervising the construction...

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I glance at your poker face
You still say I am a disgrace
Leave me with a trace of hope

I don't mind,
Being so blind

I don't mind
If I lost my mind
Or get left behind…

God loves me with love...

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How come they call it Labor Day when nobody works?
And why Pool-Table?  Where's the diving board?  the water?
How can you play "Draw-Poker" without paper and pencil?
Do Negroes really have bigger knees?
And Flashlight: A...

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He enters looking bedraggled, tired and worn out, his skin like Vellum, blank and pale. Lifting his eyes to catch their gaze he gives a slight nod to acknowledge their presence. He scans the room...

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Years P.M. (Pre-MacDonald's).
Woolworths.  Huge chain.  (Chains break with age.)
Elevated trains.  All over New York.
Five and Dimes.  That was what you paid.
Ceaserian birth.  In Rome?
10 cent comic books.
10 cent ice cream...

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Classic silent films
Redundant technicolour
Piano plays mood

Panther and snow leopard duelling with chess
Under a scintillating firmament
A dome of diamonds floating on infinity
Moonlight softly slicing the shadows
Illuminating their world of concentration
Alternating attrition
Pawn takes pawn
Bishop takes pawn
Rook takes...

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Classic silent films
Redundant technicolour
Piano plays mood

Panther and snow leopard
Duelling with chess
Under a scintillating firmament
A dome of diamonds floating on infinity
Moonlight softly slicing the shadows
Illuminating their world of concentration
Alternating attrition
Pawn takes pawn
Bishop takes pawn
Rook takes pawn
Knight...

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Pool Table Felt on the Bloodstained Mattress

A quiet giggle
It’s not my stomach growling, “feed me.”
A young girl who wouldn’t love a millionaire
A stereo left on overnight
Warmed motor that melts a plastic beer cup
Teeth brushed a...

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National Belt Time For The Bros


tell me this didn't happen
it did
lil bro and big bro are fast at it, again
two tapes, a plastic, a tennis ball, a golf ball
all batted by the bros onto the...

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A pool table lined with blue felt
sports a lively, raucous game,
ivory cracks, the men drink,
shoot the bull while they play.

A humidor lined in fine wood
stocked with Cuban cigars,
a smoking lounge grandiose,
ceiling painted like the stars.

A...

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I walk inside to get a bite,
truck stop diner, late at night,
eyes all red, I’m quite a sight
to see.

Take off my old trucker’s hate,
think of the girls waiting out back,
have no interest in getting that
disease.

Sometimes...

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674 Santa Rosa 

my childhood home
for almost 10 years
was 674 Santa Rosa 
Berkeley California

A five bedroom 
adobe California home
on the side of a hill
at the bottom of the Berkeley hills

you entered on the top floor
across...

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From the first moment I saw you I fell in love.
I knew that I had to have you, and I would do what ever it took to make you mine.
You were such a beaming beauty...

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I could write a poem that no one could tell was for you,
As no one knows about when
We used to walk on the light grey rolling curbs,
On the black gravel streets with the quilt of...

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3/25/01

FUTILITY FOCUSED
On unimportance
Perfection is put off
Till tomorrow

4/3/01

these shelves
have been emptied out

memories of a love

incinerated
all past tenses

blank name tag, 
blank face serves
as testimonial
loneliness

****
On a personal note 4/10/01 my first birthday out of prison and my dreams...

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No one questioned her presence
she was conditioned to think that she
could walk amongst Gods
she was no godd-Ess
amongst the god-Less
 
she pulled the doors of the bar towards her
the neatly, handwritten sign read: “closed”

But “she” was...

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Gray clouds shift from left to right
A storm is brewing, may last all night
Tree leaves ruffling in the wind
She heads for her house, hides in the den

She feels so safe in that special place
No thoughts...

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Two material things that cemented a friend ship
One a boat that started out as a ten foot  aluminum skiff
Morphed six times into an eighteen  foot cuddy cabin hull
And two an eight foot pool...

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MUSIC  TO   DRIVE    BY

Manitoba.  Dashboard music.  The west ahead.
At last the sun is gone  - relax my eyes.
Kinda   half-dozing,  eyelids  of lead.
Now...

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We showed up late to the party 
All eyes were on us 
Especially the girls in their little skirts 

I made my space 
In between the back door and refrigerator 
Watching all the drunks become...

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To the West, I looked.
Free-falling backwards, down.
Like Ripley into the furnace, clutching an alien
horror...destruction. Death.
Violet petal soft falling. No pain. Slow motion.
No impact. Peaceful.

'Girl, get off my pool table, ' my Daddy, smiling, 
Chalking the...

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A cascoid on a pool table is often likened to a queen in a pan of noodles. How amazing is the flowing waters of the many taps. And when the moon rides a flower it...

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never did like the southern accent,
no matter how gorgeous the lady was
whose mouth it was coming out of---
always had a preference for the 
NYC toughness or the sophisticated-
car-commercial-intense 
langue des Londoniens
&
to be truthful, it wasn’t...

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