Long Road runner Poems

Mine slovenly unkempt appearance spelled embarrassment

spurred by most recent therapy session 
with Renee Cardone
whereby thematic thread
stitched how yours truly sewed
coping modus operandi,
viz avoiding emotionally volatile situations
courtesy mine trademark signature reactions 
rather than be in compliance...

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No rhyme nor reason why
yours truly recalled how
me late mother
(earlier in her fitbit livingsocial years)
non verbally communicated disgust
(insync with audible sigh)
quite often ultimatums
blasting fulminating nauseating
scathing well nigh
she loosed loathing against
grungy looking son (guess who)

futilely escaped...

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Imagine if at the drop of a hat,
You could become a cartoon
Sylvester the Cat, 
Chasing poor little Tweety Bird,
Perhaps it sounds absurd
Or be Fred Flintstone or his friend,
Let’s just pretend,
I was Barney or Fred’s wife...

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Owls, supposedly the wisest of all birds in the forest.
Although known as being smart they aren't the greatest.
Some birds run some can't even fly, yet they are cute.
Ostriches with their long necks, white top fur...

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??
What if there was a highway 
In a simple place invested 
In the city of twisted realities 
A different darkness a brighter daylight 
Amongst the caverns they speak 
There is such a place still palakkah...

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In real life this is a comical fellow, sort of strange
Most know him from the cartoons, tricking the old coyote
More to our feathered friend, after a victory then the usual "beep beep"
As he goes at...

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The child wonders how does the refrigerator light
                  always know when to come on?
    ...

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__HAIKU  SLAM__
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((**HAIKU GYM**))

~Haiku press~
one sweaty work out
spot me, and count 5-7-5
dumbbells all around

~ Sweat Garden~
drench of human lawn
leotard planting between
dew drops under chin

~Listen To Your Heart~
Wink of a smile
Healthy news, swallow up blues
Kellogg's Raisin...

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Questions

I’ve got some questions; the truth if you please
I’d like to know – does a penguin have knees
Can a rhinoceros – if he has a twitch
Raise his back leg to get at his itch
If water...

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Porky Pig plastic bank, streaked with tears
Offered at my parent's bedside as they quarrel
          over money scarce like the scent of angels
Bickering exhaustion
   ...

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Been all over this map, from dot to dot
Red and blue lines, like his old tired eyes
Running late up and down every interstate
It is a living, like it or not
Another truck stop, burger and a...

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Somedays I feel like a female
Bugs Bunny, 
saying "whats up doc" while
confident and cool,
while other days more like a
girl Daffy Duck, 
feeling more like a tongue twisting fool,
while out shopping I feel like
an Elmer Fay...

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No holds barred, utter defeat is what I see in those cards
No holds barred, utter defeat is what I see in those cards

Read these cowards faces like pages of a book

Haters wanna steal my fame,...

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Maybe the poem dies 
as soon as it's read 
and the poet dies 
as soon as it is written.  
Maybe the reader lives 
vicariously through metaphors 
that linger like embers 
from a pre forest fire...

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Max is mad at Molly
Samantha’s sore at Seth 
Freida’s freaking out at Frodo
While  Hobbits hold their breath

Jack jokes about poor Jill
She hits him with her pail
Humpty cracks open Dumpty
For drinking all his ale

Mickey Mouse...

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Cartoons

Saturday morning, early, 
we sat around the toob…(tv)
We laughed. 

Road runner was too fast, 
the coyote was always too slow. 
Thundar was a Barbarian, 
and Strawberry was a shortcake.

Shaggy chased bad guys, 
Scooby was a...

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When she stepped into the traffic
did she see the oncoming,

judge the distance;
the fleet footedness
of her thoughts calculating
the crossing,

or did she read the red end of her life
the way a deer might
caught in a blind light,
paralyzed...

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Vehicles, muscled cars were built, to be fast;
creatures of iron and steel; 
the wildest beasts.

In the day of manufactured power, Lynx and Jaguar raced; thunderbirds flew low to ground with wings, 
as fast as, a...

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Hardly, a Human Being!

Get a hammer and garrote that 
brainchild, 
That demonic smartphone, I propose.
That mutant who seduces you,
With most amorous rings!
Put the sultry siren to rest,
Tune into the real world, as it's
simply the best!

Above all else...

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 There was Red Dawn and
Crocodile Dundee.
    Full House and
The Lottery.

   Road Runner and
G.I. Joe.
   The Lost Boys and 
Cameo.

   The TMNT and 
Silver Hawk.
 ...

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I like the way you always remember that I like
my orange juice with pulp, my popcorn without butter,
and that I can’t stand squash – 
fried, steamed or otherwise.
I like that you understand without asking why...

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don’t call him a baby...
don’t make fun of his tears...
his soul’s tender —
he runs and hides,
under a chromatic beanbag
with a dark emotional spectrum.

when he returns to play Sleeping Queens,* he
sniffles, wipes tears on his sleeve...

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I’m a late bloomer! So this was an early attempt
at writing poetry, long before I took classes.
I had small kids and this is what I wrote about them.

(Untitled)

Road Runner down the street
with lots of en-er-gy
riding...

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Porky Pig has a stutter,
Oh how people did laugh.
Cos his farewell "that's all folks"
Could last a minute and a half.

He had such a problem
Hi sttttt uuu ttttt err  got worse,
That they introduced a sidekick
Daffy...

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My name is Wile E. Coyote and I fall off cliffs.
Some consider it misfortune, the Road Runner considers it a gift.
Those damn Acme products never work.
When they backfire, I look like a jerk.
I'm getting sick...

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