Long Scanner Poems

a lonely place.
It's nothing to do with that person
who asked how are you? this morning.
It's to do with staring through
fear-frosted windows
as snow sugar-sifts the street,
watching through dark windows
as firework flowers burst to bloom in a...

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AIR TRAVEL

When travelling by air, the first thing that you do,
Is gather all your stuff and pack your bags,
And especially when you travel by plane,
Make sure they are all equipped with luggage tags.

We usually print...

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Imagine all the people
who trade in human life,
imagine all the reasons
given to this particular vice.
I visualize the rivers
that run with coagulated blood,
I visualize the tyrant
that stir the waters good!

Imagine all the evil
where nightmares are conceived,
imagine...

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Once upon a time in Baghdad
There lived two kids n their dad
The old man died
The sons sighed
They were Allibaba n cassim
They lived at a forests rim
Cassim married a rich girl
But aaladin a woodcutter married a...

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It is a nice sunny day
in the eastern Riverina
It is a perfect day to go for a ride
on my klr 650
might go for a ride to
circumnavigate Hume weir
yep
sounds like a plan
so I am thinking about
dropping...

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" On Line "
 
I want one of those computers
Superconductor duper super science fiction 
Like in the films you see
Where the female efficient voice
Tells me everything is working properly
 
Punch up my memory boost and...

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Beware the “Reader” Phishing Scam

By Elton Camp

I had considered myself practically immune to phishing scams, but I found out differently last night.  While I was doing some online searches, just as I often do,...

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It all started in late December at Wuhan
zoonotically transmitted from seafood market at Huanan
Pneumonia like cases brought in the focus
authorities surreptitiously making it hocus-pocus

It Spread across the globe like fire
causing fear, anxiety, distress and ire
Symptomatic...

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Walmart
I despise you

The flea on the dog
Aphid in the garden
Disease that turns into plague

Wasn't to pleased we did business with you
Was out of my control, 
Had to watch the news
He comes in my room
Look of...

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I wonder how many books there are out there that teach you how to
raise your child? I'm sure there are good ideas in them, but where was the book
for raising each of my children? They...

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"I'm going to examine you today,"
he said.

He had no stethoscope, notebook,
or pen on his hands. He wore a long,
white robe. Sandals took the place
of shoes.

"I'll examine your brain, a few moments
from now....."

I wondered how he...

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books stacked, spine horizontally allowing the title and author to be seen, cars facing the front, hood and license plate, people and trees distinguishable by height and hair or crown, the sequence of years diminishes...

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We were going to visit Malta so Paul and I hatched a little plan
I’d bring pork pies over (his grand daughter Valentina is a fan)

Paul would meet us at the airport with his family
Valentina would...

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Books to the library
photos to family.
Paint cans and lumber
from renovations years ago.
Most of the furniture
including the piano.
Fastest way to do this
is rent a dumpster.

On the internet
nothing’s permanent.
I like that.
Photosynthesis, evaporation
as if your spirit disappears
when the...

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the man behind the 7-Eleven counter
breathes in, when the customer struggling to
get their discount card to read on the scanner
becomes more frustrated with each passing
moment,
he has extraordinary patience,
because this one is representative of the
vast menagerie...

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The making of a book,
with love within it's pages;
should be a piece of cake,
and not take her ages!

Where's Denise? asked Molly,
In answer came a look;
I think she's in the staff room,
making a book.

Oh! that makes...

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Mom
U always raised a storm
When I did something wrong
Those blowings made me strong
They stood
 Me good 
Thank u mom for providing a   hood
Gave me what u believed was right 
Ill care for u...

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Carolers sing in front of a garland draped door
In scarf and boot turn, spill grog into snow pour.

Approaching our porch with, “Come ye faithful”
Open the door and come, let’s adore the merciful.

To the smell of...

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People with family dressed up in the Victorian style
Returning home as the Mass services over awhile.

Which in olden times was Communion or Eucharist
Where people remember, the savior Jesus Christ.

Who died for us and came back...

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Coming now from 2B Platform
Ding, the depressed robot, cleaned the cocoon
holographic messages from mom
saying everithing is good in the moon
nothing to eat in the scanner 
and where are you, my loved one?
yesterday I worked until...

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people fail to deliver a job with honesty and industrious nature.
when they died, they carried pain and raised worrying rankles,
children never face them,  they find the practice has no true feature.

no doubt, they are...

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I'm a young professional.
I don't know my personal mission statement yet.
I'm nervous about calling IT.
         It might take me a couple days to work up the courage.
I...

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A social worker bashed in my door,
seizing my kids on rumors
of bath time photographs.
On my trek to court
to rescue my children,
they forced me through
a biometric scanner
recording every detail
of my naked flesh.

I was lambasted by a...

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Some days I feel I'm nearly crazy
Kids and chores so many, I become hazy
Motivation slides, no---then I'm just lazy.

While I gather my one thousandth drifting thought
I find I'm just a dreamer and bit of a...

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Having a CT Scan in a couple of days
Most likely looking for a brain
Hope they find something that resembles such
Of course that might be a strain

Might think the Scanner is no longer working
Nothing's showing up...

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