Long Quads Poems

Vacuum
by Michael R. Burch

Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...

leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are unable to know

that once intrigued us so.

Come then, let us...

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10 o'clock am the morning 
Quest: A country side bike ride.
Molly woke Dolly and Damian.
Woke Everyone on that July 
Morning of 2038. They had a Bicycle 
Expedition to tend to plus a newly
Minted swimming pool...

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October  2051

Damali and  Desharah celebrated her birthday with Sedanah
Born on the same date one year apart. "Thank you both
And thanks Seda for being older than me!"  "No problem 
Cousin. She played footsie...

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Date:  August 10   2051

At the time Dolly Molly and Holly arrived at the restaurant most of the Hakims were there enjoying jazz melodies some relatives were on the second level l. Mama...

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Ms. Real Time,
an often engaging Taoist,
but sometimes, admittedly, not so much,
more of a disengaged cannibal really
on her dark time of before and after
her Taoist stimulating period
if you know what I winterish mean.

Anyway,
Ms. Real Time
invited her...

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The seven were "all healthy and 
Well cared for" Dr. Maxim 
Stated. She was a little 
Concerned about Adian. He
Only gained one pound since
His birth. Molly said, "I'm 
Worried he's not getting enough 
Milk. I'm...

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Year  August 2039

Molly started contractions about 
40 minutes before Dolly they
Were both rushed to the
Hospital in separate ambulances
There was a family Gathering 
with both families at the
Hospital. This was a momentous 
Event unlike the...

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The time was 11:05. Damian 
Made the essential announcement 
"HAKIM the time is now 11:05
We will leave this place at 11:15am.
That's 10 minutes from now.
So use the toilet, do everything 
You need to do for...

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I sat in a meditative state
Released everything inside
Hollowed out my being
For a single parent whose son had died

I drove a thoughtless road
Until my destination was in view
Roger was crying in the shop
I didn't know what...

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we gather together, a hundred or so
stetching, warming cold muscles, just waiting to go

nervous anticipation, just wanting to start,
we collect our numbers, have a piss, have a fart

as our tummies stir with butterflies and angst
we...

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Far as the (ease) 
severely myopic eyes can see,
nothing but polluted atmosphere
where skull and crossbones
memento mori betokens beware,

especially with increasing chronology
mortality becomes crystal clear
existential crisis yours truly didst despair
not so much death itself, but failure
(inadequacy)...

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Like Moses fleeing Egypt 
and finding refuge in Midian
I was a stranger in a strange land.
Having fled Chicago in ‘84
I journeyed east to the
unpromised land of Detroit.

8 Mile Road.
“I'm a man
I'm a make a new...

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My dad built a house on a hill. How exciting to climb to the tippy-top then look down upon the roof, and dog home, the bean garden, and to sled the slope in Winter white.

eyes...

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I used to like barbells, enjoyed pumping iron,
   my Nautilus* gym was one happy environ.
Those posters of 6-packs and marbled biceps
   inspired me to start counting carbs, pounds, and reps.

My trainer...

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Written: January 04, 2025 For Contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker

Line of inquiry:
“free from conditioned belief 
no agenda on our shelf
vibrant as the light of Self
life flows on all by itself”
     ...

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There's a perfect distance to stand from the mirrored wall in the dance studio at the gym. I'll admit, I can get a bit love locked with my own image from the distance of 1.5...

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What is a square, a shape, container quadraphonics, a traditional rollerskate
What is an atrium, a fireplace, a closet
What is a boxing ring, a gymnasium, blackboard 
What are a checkerboard, deck cards, crossword puzzle, jigsaw puzzle,...

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That day has arrived
 The one I thought will never come
 Oh! Not for him at list
 For he’s the greater one of all,
 Oh! The black dark cloud fell

I used to sit outside the...

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Mince Munseun and Anais Zonte' Dider
Of "Soothing Grooves"  Used the
"Audacity Fix" to thrash
The Nepheliums with there manager
Dick Maddox

"Bassy" "The Axe"  Kualmurphy
Lucked up with a win over
"Minnesota " Enos Eyecandy

"Spiteful"Spike Soothinjour won
Over the Wolves...

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Mince Munseun and Anais Zonte' Dider
Of "Soothing Grooves"  Used the
"Audacity Fix" to thrash
The Nepheliums with there manager
Dick Maddox

"Bassy" "The Axe"  Kualmurphy
Lucked up with a win over
"Minnesota " Enos Eyecandy

"Spiteful"Spike Soothinjour won
Over the Wolves...

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When people talk about traveling to the past they worry about radically 
changing the present by doing something small.  But rarely do they think about doing something small, to radically change the future. 


Baby...

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johnny doe you know he did
push-ups for jesus + johnny doe 
you know he did one in the morn
after watching porn + keeping his
arms strong in the characters name 
he exerted himself for the savior...

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Crossroads prod roads that download and upload quads of queries
Lumped and dumped on our battered bodies by blister berries
Spiced with slices of suppression and subjugation
That in the end neither mend nor amend our conjugation.

Crossroads prod...

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THERE WAS A BEVY OF BEAUTY IN MY ’56 CHEVY 

Dig it dude give me a chance to try
Listen guy, I ain’t that high
So let me attempt to tell you what will transpire
And I promise,...

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When will i become the next governor?
some people like you,
why some hate you.
You work as a coline to those who want it,
clasp in the blanco of darkness.
••••
How do you work in the office of inspired...

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