Long Regulars Poems

Red light, the neon beer sign on the distant wall reflects off the long expanse of polished bar top, overpowering the quiet brown wood. It’s after lunch, only a few people in to stir the...

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Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a few...

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Reverend Ralston Pews had no idea what he was going to see at 
the Honkland Shonkastada Diner, but he knew it would be entertaining.
It always was.  A tiny confistacate was happening, he could hear...

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With thoughts of getting fish-faced on a Friday night, 
I dropped anchor in a portside bar 
To contemplate the crooked path to closing time; 
Couldn’t guarantee I’d get that far.

I ordered a tequila, called myself...

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Ask me about me and I will tell you about me, ask me about me and I will satisfy your curiosity. You walk around the entire town looking for where destiny is bound, digging up...

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Growing up Roxanne learned that a woman
could do anything that was done by a man,
that it was wrong to have different standards,
and this point of view informed all her plans.

She was aggressive in her relationships,
and...

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This is the place the ’punchers come
when it is time to drink their pay,
ride in from the hilly rangelands
to forget cattle for a day.

Norma in the kitchen will cook
beef and spuds for this roving horde,
her...

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Durians As king Of Fruits

When it is fruits season locally, everywhere there is an abundant display of all kinds of fruits…
In any given location, you’ll be spoilt for choices given the wide selection of fruits…

Of...

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I spend time with a friend 
well, a pseudo-friend 
an acquaintance of sorts 
no, I guess he'd be a friend, 
shit, who knows 
one of those types you never really share your heart 
that authentic...

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Saloon
Squeezed between office buildings
On lower Broadway
Desolate and out of the way
Faint neon sign marks the place
For the downtown art scene.
Poetry readings on Sunday afternoons
Only the regulars show up 
Invited or not 
Some mount the stage...

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The front bar of the Criterion is filling up,
It’s after five and the patrons are filing in.
Placed orders echoing off the old timbers 
Vying to be heard and adding to the din.

The Grand Old Lady...

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It’s 1:30am and we were at a cute little dance club in Dublin called “The Sugar Club.” It’s a converted movie theater with tables in stadium seating rows. That night was Salsa themed, and the...

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Banjo Bobs Barber Shop

Ill meet you there he’s open eight till late, right off hope street down dead end lane,
It can be quite a journey his reception worth your pain, no matter your passion, ignore...

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Customers are like bouquets of flowers passing through our twenty-four hours.
Breakfast, lunch, or dinner all 365 calendar days guaranteed for a full twenty-four seven.
“Hello Sir”! Welcome to Waffle House America’s favorite place to eat!
Some say...

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2 Cowboys just been paid

1 named John
The other
1 Wayne

Walk into a Bar at approximately
2 o'clock on a tuesday aftenoon

In Old Wild West
Tombstone , Dodge City

And after 12 or so hour's later

A bell peels

Gentlemen drink up...

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This is the place where they come to escape the stress in their lives 
A lot is from their husbands and wives 
This place gives them a lift 
The regulars start swooping in at 10...

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...It wasn’t easy living out on her own,
she was young and she made her mistakes,
went to night school to learn to cut hair,
and in the daytimes tables she did wait.

At twenty years old she was...

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My daily walk for exercise has changed;
for there are souls along the path
I have not seen before.  Oh yes,
the regulars are there,
and smile at me, too often share
my miseries from ice and snow
and muscles...

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RELIEVING STARVATION

The sky was amber, the sun to set                          ...

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vietnam reflections 220
in triplicate

1st day 0500 hours...
we trod silently
unobserved
just inside the edge of the tree line
until we found an old tree scrub
whose branches brushed the earth
at the very edge of the clearing
this would be our...

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Leaning On a Stone

I was afraid of gaining weight, so I kept on puffing my cigarettes. Filling my lungs, holding that drag as long as I could. I liked that feeling deep in my chest....

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Everybody, and his brother
Stopped in, at one time, or another
Not for the greasy hash browns
Or the coffee, with a half a cup, of grounds
They weren't there for Ruby or Ruth
Whose numbers were in the phone...

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Through a dining room window in the house
I meet various friends on daily basis
Their entertaining spirit is huge
The joy they give to me is plentiful

All I do is, offer them some seeds
Paying numerous morning and...

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I was in the pub relaxing just the other night,
the time when most drinkers are looking quite a sight,
some drank all alone,
some were on their phone,
and some swilled fighting beer, so they want to fight.

There...

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First it was pubs that weren’t open,
And then shops that were not essential,
And then even schools weren’t admitting,
But to me that’s inconsequential.
Cos I haven’t got school age children,
But worried hotels were closed too
If I needed...

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