Long Revved Poems

I believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...

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Font Din Black

so u real??? 
Warning! The following choppy, batty, 
dopey: elegy = flaky, goofy, history: iffy, 
jumpy, kooky: loopy, matty, nappy, nippy, 
sketchy material prone to find the reader 
dazed and bewildered, yet comfortably...

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It was many years ago now, before my wisdom teeth
had forced their way through my big mouth, they were still underneath.
I had an awesome job within the motor industry;
not building them, but selling: an ‘Executive’,...

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By some quirky short circuit.
A drone mutated itself 
and became intelligent
.
As fate would have, 
The drone decided to take revenge. 
Chose Chill Bates as its target
The drone altered its algorithm 
and started re-programming.... its fellow...

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"The Recalcitrant Romantico Sends a Love Note to the World"



There was a loophole in the contract
in fine print, when the final page was rolled back,
a sharp paper cut bled a firebrand’s life and a swollen...

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There is this hypothesis
I unjustly
and perhaps traumatically
just made hard and patriarchally up
is not down 
and retentatively not out
soon enough for healthy comings 
and goings

A ridiculous theory
that straight homophobic preachers
and teachers,
prophets
and kings,
pharaohs
and rabbis,
old crows
and magpies

Throughout too...

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"50 Words for Poe: Strangelove"


Strangelove was waiting  
in Holdnerness
He was anticipating 
with a certain glee 
The “Arrival” of 
Ms Bon Vivant, her sharpness
and sharing conversation 
over Kumquat Jam, Scones and 
clotted cream at High...

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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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I was alone
Travelling Interstate 80
Following the route of the early Western pioneers 
2900 miles across the midsection of America
Stretching from the East Coast to California
In Utah home to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

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12/20/21


Ten hut!
Can't let up
Even though, it can get messed up
Really F'd up
Do not get fed up
Keep your head up
Stay sharp, don't get set up
Careful where a disagreement ends up
Heads up!
Many fast to wet up
From the...

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ANOTHER VERSION
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the shack
All the creatures were stirring; even the roaches in the crack.
The children were jumping and playing in the bed,
While neighbors were drinking and smoking and...

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Julius Has a Bad Day

By Elton Camp

Only last week, it was late on Saturday night
Young Julius was alone and hadn’t eaten a bite
He went to the ATM at the convenience store
Because he was short on...

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“Route 66” (Part 2)


The Wicked Old Witch stalked her, flying above 
on her revved up battered old  Peugeot Stick made from 
twigs and oderous putrifying brown crud.
Up to this point all silent, the ugly...

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Dad was a Deputy Sherriff
My uncle a city cop
My Dad’s car was an unmarked one
My uncle’s had lights on top

Dad had mounted a big siren
In the grill, under the hood
The switch was below the dashboard
He...

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The model cub in Tyler, Texas
Announced a model contest
I saw an event I could enter
But it will be a big test

I only had one little engine
It seemed to run really fine
A birthday present given to...

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For crying out loud you came into my life like a bat out of hell, no time to think, no time to go slow, I was all revved up with no place to go, god...

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Blinded by the light
Riding my bike in the middle of the night
Pity my plight
I ran over the foot of a runner in the night

I admitted my flaw, but then we both saw
a UFO with 2...

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Moods of Change

I have sensed, I feel, I have seen, growing impressions 
imprinted upon the walls, inside my skull, impressions 

that hang heavy within my D.N.A, like ghostly shadows 
streaking across the empty spaces of...

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Please read part 1 first




When Moe got off the phone, he couldn't believe his luck
Somehow he'd managed to hire, a great big monster truck

He opened up the back door and chucked his luggage in
Then flew...

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A child stood whimsically staring beyond my stately fence of
neighborly convictions, I stoically beckon my approval of his 
eyes invasion of my overly priced tag of the American dream.
I proffered a parents nightmare of wrapped...

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MR. JACK DANIELS and his cohort Mr. BEER DROVE ME HERE

I decided to take me a on a little road trip
Just me and Jack Daniels so I took me a sip
Mr. Daniels with a chaser...

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Volcanic rain beneath the ocean floor sputs out
As the sponges wonder what the lava's for
A cannonball that casts out the eye
As skin separates from flesh

Suddenly the exposed, exacerbated skull loses its mesh
A careful entrapment of...

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For crying out loud , 
It’s All Coming Back to Me Now; 
1977 Meatloaf’s Bat Out of Hell.

I wanted  time to slip away just a little faster,
as  love became blank broken faced alabaster,
when...

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MISTER JACK DANIELS AND BEER IS HOW I GOT HERE

I decided to take me a on a little road trip
Just me and Jack Daniels so I took me a sip
Mr. Daniels with a chaser I...

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ON THE SCRAPHEAP OF LIFE


When we married you got my engine running, but now I want to sleep
I’ve just failed my annual service, you said my defects ran too deep
My sleek curves have lost their...

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