Long Scrapheap Poems

Of My (Lenovo External) Computer Screen

Within mere nanoseconds,
     (or less than an instagram ming
     kickstarter reddit snap,
     chat ting shutter
   ...

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This (Numerical) Life

I am a number. I know this because you spend all evening asking me my age, as it is my birthday and we dine in lavish style. My name is forgotten; the eccentricities...

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Bone Idle Cat
Lazy boy was just that, a bone idle bat. Staying in bed all day sleeping, up all night playing computer games. Not working, never done a day's graft in his life. He's just...

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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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Oh look, surprise-surprise, it’s just as I suspected; 
Just as I foresaw it would turn out – 
You have already forgotten my face, 
Erased me from your mind as if I were but a picture,...

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A state of mindless exhaustion overwhelms me
I feel wrung out
Over-wrought
Strained to the very limits of endurance
I’m at the end of my tether
And the rope is strangling me
It’s choking off my mournful breaths
Damming my lifeblood
An icy...

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Dear self ,
We live inside each other,
When the last time we met each other
At the last stage of life, 
let's take some wise steps,
Your biggest abhorrence was,
You never wanted to live like a substitute 
or...

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In honor of Remembrance Day and those that serve. 

Tour of Duty©

I awaken from a fitful sleep
One where slumber was not very deep

The night before after counting many a sheep 
My eyes closed and they...

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Oh in the early days you couldn’t wait to get your hands on my curves
Now I am getting older, you simply don’t want to know

The times you got my motor running
How you loved to get...

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The awake awakened with wide eyes wide-opened.
Calls of the screaming sea, calling calls ceaselessly.
Pound-pounding ears attend, weakening abandon,
wend sea claps yonder, and then only beyond then,
toasting impacts extend hosting eyes to pretend.
Gestures the forgiving, bestirs...

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He can fix anything

no matter the year

the make, the model

but has his own way 

 

No, just throw that

on the scrapheap

with all the others

 

Seriously, I just

want to work

I hate people

mostly but not always

 

Get...

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