Long Salting Poems

Guilty I voiced my plea
Whilst the fishies looked at me
There he stood-pleased and grinning;
Disregard of what was sinning

Guilty I yelled again;
Affirmation for the man
My heart you stole for I stole yours;
Exchange of hearts with distant...

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You bite that apple!
Give it a go, put on a show
There is no shame
You said shame is a sham
And clams are happy
Do they hop or skip?
Tripping along the seafloor
Playing hopscotch
Eating numbers like cookies
Chips Ahoy!
Sleeve after...

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The Stop & Shop strike v. Game of Thrones. 
In Game what’s not made plain
is the condition of the people
compared with warriors and queens.
There’s no mention of land-clearance, tree-felling, 
pruning, chopping, digging, hoeing, 
weeding, branding,...

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You can't imagine what its like to march on a sacred city,
to plunder and pulverize a Peoples' promise to Deity,
demolishing centuries of lavish labor, wasting offspring of ancient heredity,
destroying flesh, scriptures and stone with a...

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 Part 3

9th Delerium: Emptyness
Water wheels in wastelands... turning,
drowning relics in the slum
Rumpled rags of fashioned burlap... burning,
lit by bandits blind and dumb
Pastured prisons, ponies bridled ... yearning,
forest fairies under thumb
Sounds inside of cauldrons coughing......

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"The Fresh Blooding of a Sexton Grin"



Guns ...

are for p*ssies
you know, short for 
pussilanimous plural

Words …

are sharper 
more cutting
more lethal 

clean 
concise 
quill slicing the lucid flow

you can taste the blood
as you turn them 
twist...

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Brutus Iulius Trois page 08 

Suddenly stillness all sounds silenced  the last pirate slain.
From the bowels of the Tireme came cheers that grew louder
From men newly freed from their enslavement  to the Thracian...

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Twilight bleeds her darkness over the earth
breathing offerings of shadow, reflecting
the trembling joys – poured forth by the fireflies
who restore some semblance of the spirit’s dance
rising beneath the winds, softly whispering
this is the night’s last...

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The cliffs were the only place she could go to find the edge of love
the only boundry between up and down, of faith and fate,
a frontier where tears scratch slate with bursts of pearl pain
and...

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You can twist the way a man sees the world.
Do you think that sounds ridiculous?
What if you did it over time with subtlety and diligence?

The audience is largely uneducated, so remind them of their impotence;...

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Sure it comes with shoveling,salting,sanding,scraping,snow plowing and snow blowing 
It also comes with so much more beauty that's well worth knowing 
Snow blockades for snowball fights
Playing king of the mountain on a blanket of white...

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You can't imagine what it's like to march on a sacred city,
to plunder and pulverize a Peoples' physical promise to a Deity,
demolishing centuries of lavish labor,
wasting offspring of ancient heredity, 
destroying flesh, scripture and stone
with...

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This patch of dirt, this womb of earth, organic 
black and aromatic with compost and 
coffee grounds, receives my 
spade, but soon my hands 
are digging there, putting roots 
in place as seedlings, kelly green...

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Slowly
(a life time of small steps back
Fades the light
towards a tiny waiting grave)
As does the bright
Birth of an immaculate 
Smile 
	Spanning the horizon for hope
		Scanning the world for yes
			Searching the room for you
To face your...

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They say time heals all wounds 
A truth I've known since never
I don't think that angry, screaming teenage girl inside ever let anything heal 
Even on my best days, she's there
Lighting matches and salting slugs...

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I

Tis the season -
of loss or of change?
I was told both.
But first I drove from home to sleepless couches.
From quiet to frightening neighbors.
I drove on a warm December’s sheet of ice
and passed mile after mile...

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God isn't looking for your tears, he's looking for your faith. -Paul S. Morton

She smells like the 80’s
With her big hair and Levi’s
That never go out of style…
Seem to almost cover the centuries
With their taut...

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I'se  been working my ass all day
in them government agencies in this here hot city	 
and them only giving me this little to pay
for food, rent and give them back the change in my...

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Why do you always chose me?
Six billion people to chose from.
Yet always, without fail, it's me.
Always when things are picking up.
You tap me on the shoulder.
I look round- you've scarpered like a pup.
What is this...

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A meter off the ground - it was chilling to the bone
  and they say high up the degrees drop 

In a metal bird with conditioned air
  forgotten are dreams of wanting to...

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You’ll do it yourself – the day after the doctor 
said, “no heavy lifting.” And your husband 
(dreaming again) insisted on a patriarchal turkey 
like you always used to have, when he’d 
handle the fowl...

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I’ve been salting my eyes with artificial starlight-
watching scientists try to explain where this all came from. 
They say not to worry because it was
all just happenstance anyway. That when I die, 
the rot I...

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As I roamed into the steakhouse,
I spotted him slashing steak.
He looked up with his dispirited stare,
His despair coherent to me.
He summon me to take a chair,
He had a anecdote to unfold, 
About the day his...

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Waking of a gravy spine of a leave leap among a sprung to cash a year, 

Avenue point position early news warm of a feather coat of a jacket how cold of dusk, 

bring heat...

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'Twas a fortnight fraught with tainted stars;
'Midst mournful tears salting Neptune's sea.
A withered lass swallows internal scars,
'Twixt purist passions removed from thee.

Thoust bravest beloved her soul kept dear;
A buccaneer's quest sculpting pirated pride:
"Seizing Zeus' crown...

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