Long Rubbery Poems

Richard Mcgeehan Poem

Poetic license I employ
to match inventive
wisdom and witticism
regarding (brother in law of mine 
husband of eldest sister of same)
interspersing, initiating, incorporating
fabrication whenever possible,
and only the subject himself
can discern fact from fiction
and get a...

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still the climbing green lianoid lass


her tender tendrils torn  


massive metal lying like a cutlass


in her lap forlorn


                ...

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I was walking through a wood, trees to the right-hand side of me on a slope -
upwards; rocks to the left-hand side of me, sloping down towards a lake.  As I 
walked along, I...

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It's morning as I make a special trip to the
fish market. There, I will look for the freshest 
mussels, large shrimp, and Maine lobster. 
 
A large crowd has formed mostly chefs 
wanting to get...

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Loving life hid beneath rim of cool ceramic bowl
Tree frog claimed proud place, toilet's homely hole
Enamoured by his simple palace making stance
I bend to peer at his green grip toe stick, entranced

My ordinary admonished by...

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Headed home from a business trip
Tired, spaced out, grouchy and impatient
Pushing the limit to beat rush hour traffic
Fast closing on an old, beat up van

Suddenly blue smoke and debris flying
The back tire must have bounced...

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Peeling Back the Bubble Wrap

Peeling back the bubble wrap on the ancient of days, 
Back to when Nixon was still presiding,
He, leading with paranoid deliberations, 
Sold his yeses to the Goldbricks, and the Mustard Men;
And...

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Headed home from a business trip
Tired, spaced out, grouchy and impatient
Pushing the limit to beat rush hour traffic
Fast closing on an old jalopy van

Suddenly blue smoke and debris flying
The back tire must have bounced twenty...

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I tried so hard, but you were too fast, clicking gracefully on high heels down the 
shady block, laughing at me plodding in saddlebacks:  Can't you keep up?
I tried so hard, but you were...

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Here I am,


In the first fling of youth-

In what sterile field did I find this anti-fecund missive?

This stretching of a hand, drenched in rubbery black; accompanied by a smell; a sewing, cloying end-platform.

If I lean...

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Elixir of life

How do you live your life?
Had you say, I live for myself
You are like big baby
Whose baby took to the sea bay
To drink from the long life pot
Whose seaside was it point
To live...

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Aye, Spanish Needles, far from native shore
We the Diaspora exult to meet
Though our station, not what we dreamt of yore
Is battered by grimy dust and slimed sleet
Aye, Spanish Needles, still unbowed you stand
A dazzling prince...

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She is nervous say beads of sweat dripping from her brow down to the floor. 
She is scared says the worried expression on her glistening face. 
Although she has a million butterflies swarming in her...

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haint gonna mock ridiculous science 
     asper to be bled
dark practices to leech out mailer daemons, 
     not so laughable nor in cred

double, when oppressed diabolical ...

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A is an ape who wishes he were a man - why?
B is a butterfly who dreamed he was a man - why not?
C is the cat who wants to sit in my chair, when...

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she stood on an empty bucket with a tight noose around her neck

when doubts crept in through a hole in the bottom of the rusty vat

naked she was twisted torn with defeat tattooed into a...

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Suspended Animation De Rigueur Among "Joe King" Six Pack

Yepper, once body functions cease
asper this ole codger,
mere seconds after expiration,
sans existential lease
immortality avails rubbery piece
of flesh christened

Matthew Scott Harris,
the legal mouthpiece
decreed by living will
after organ activity...

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Warmth, surrounded me…always
My lips, my eyes, closed… 
Mesmerized by the darkness that brought me consolation
I remember there were colors under those lids,
Green, spurts of purple…and sporadic yellows and reds
They danced and flashed
Whenever your voice rumbled...

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Scavenging squirrels search for acorns, scratching old stumps from trees. 
Scampering up my sugar maple, they steal my bird feeder seeds. 
Sleepy salamanders wake from their slumber to sleep on slippery stones, searching for a...

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Snot Man Blue


There was no skin and hair 
on his lower and upper big round torso.
Instead, there was thick and blue snot. Some would go, ‘Oh what a distracting gross sideshow!’

‘Well, at least he has...

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I sat on the edge of your mattress, unsure what to expect; I kicked off my shoes and took in 
your bedroom for the first time: the bookshelves, the plastic stickers wreathing the windows, 	
your...

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I AM undeniable
I AM the narcotic swimming within the pools of vulnerable veins
I AM the hypnotic liquid swirling about within a glass bottle, healing aches and pains
I AM beautiful
I AM the evening sunset embedding sweetness...

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Fake Food Anyone

Hohoho....
First it was fake food and vegetables for the house decor......
Until one day the line was crossed and food as we know before.....
Are no longer assumed to be natural to be consumed as...

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Apparent normalcy of seeing Simon crouched on bathroom tiles, 
engrossed in energetic chewing, fails to filter my distress.

From outer body standpoint, hovered below ceiling's heat lamp, 
I monitor the horror of my daughter's distraught face.

Ginger...

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I dreamt of being transported to a strange alien land
The sky was splattered with lumps, of red gooey sand 
Spacemen appeared through it, with rubbery hands
This wasn’t on my bucket list, I could not understand...

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