Long Scrubs Poems

Dear people, 
    (Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare, 
to perfect, before performance, …?
    -sure hard to try...

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All things that scrub the ground like an old musty couch I saw you there seated with my very abusive ex husband wearing my under garments wrapped around your head I wondered just what you...

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My friends have always hated Valentine's Day.
They ridiculed the pimply-faced boys
Whose hormone-infused offerings
Smell of Axe cologne and sweaty palms.

Greater the mocking of pubescent princesses
Who prance and twirl and collect tokens
From admirers like shells on a...

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01001101 01111001  01010110 01010010

yeah ...
they hijacked my mind, man -
hard-wired my neural synapses
said I'd be famous ...
(wealthy, certainly)
With MY financial issues
what choice, really?
Family no longer cares -
they gave up on me ages ago
(who can...

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A Hallows Eve of trick or treating, elaborate costumes, candy eating,
       Lantern’s dimming upon nightfall, locked doors marks next year’s meeting.

My recalling of my day and for the next...

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It was December Christmas eve, and it was snowing outside
Kids were making snowmen and some boys had made a slide 
Our eight year old daughter Suzie went out to play with her friend Jill 
My...

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Lisa and I were watching one of our favorite series last night, a Japanese manga called “The Way of the Househusband” and I could barely keep my eyes open. I went to bed at a...

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To all my children, may you please be aware!
I don't always show it, but I will always care.
Each of you have been a great gift to me.
Your births made this man happy as can be.
Each...

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This storys old but I will tell it anyways 
What’s brewing is the same speech I gave myself yesterday
I'm using old material
And it's not even feasible!
And clearly not working 
You can find those words between...

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A hank of damp hair hangs limply on her forehead.  With the back of a work reddened hand she brushes it from her face.  From the galvanized tub before her, she withdraws a...

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I 
Don't
Need
Proof
Of
Your 
Growth 
Hope and Love

Brittery
Flowers
Sprout
In
The
Hour
Of 
Hope
&
Luv 
Airplanes
Do
Land
Young
And 
Beautiful
You 
Are,
Much
Like
Me 
In
Times
Of 
Tribulation
And 
Jubilation 
Bring
Me
Down 
Under 
Eyes
Release
Waterfalls
Of wonderfulness
I 
Am
Torn
Apart
By 
Sorrow
That 
I 
Will
Feel
This
Yesterday's
Tomorrow
...
..
.
..
...
Do
You
Hear
Me 
Cry
?
Don't
Ask
Why
?
??
???
??
?
Do 
You
Hear 
My 
Plea-
Inspired
Prayer
?
Slayer
To
Sin...
Leave
My 
Presence
From
Deeeeep
Within
...
..
.
..
...
Hand
Me 
A
Key 
To 
UnLoCk
The 
Truth 
&
Peace
Plz...
That
Peace
That
Re-re-
Re-re-
Renews
My 
Tragedy 
In 
Reverse...
Getting
A
Grip
On
The
Rope
Hope 
On...

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There are times when the demon in us stealthily it appears...
How else I get to explain why I did what I did when life is so dear...

How can I explain away my flaunting of a...

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entering into the Sea of Words contest by Leighann Anderson    7/3/2011

Remembering...
I was 27 years old, and in my second year of working for my first real "grown
-up" 
job.  There is something...

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Begging for money and food on the street
Dreaming someday her Prince Charming she’ll meet
Someone to love and sweep her off her feet!

Her prince has arrived, he stops at her spot
He chats her up nicely….she likes...

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one, I want to scrub your fingerprints off of my skin til the burning feels like kinesthetic white noise.

two, I hope that candle I gave you finally burns out. I hope the scent will still...

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I am in the medical clinic
new baby squeaks out a distress cry
sounds like a drowning cat
we are all masked
I forgot to wear mine in
so they slapped a pink one on me
I am the third in...

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Her tears fall like rain on a borrowed shore,
A quiet deluge, seeping through seams,
Staining the fabric of a life not hers—
His shirt, his collar, his cuffs worn thin,
Drenched in the salt of a love forbidden.
She...

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When a 5 year old child screams a father leaves
When the father leaves the 5 year old child is broken
When the child breaks the mother cries
When the mother cries the vibration of her cry makes...

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we had all grown used to seeing me in a hospital bed
but this time, 
i don’t know if i’ll pull through.

my mother is a brilliant woman.
strong and tenacious.
i can feel her anxiety building
as my blood...

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Fragile Steps

Fragile feet broken-in, glass slippers
waltzing through the ballroom.
The sweep of a cerulean gown,
charming, with angel wings.

~

Broken inside, fatherless, feathers
fall around her - weeping. Bullies - dressed
like sisters, tango around her tresses.

Pulling...teasing, stepmother leading.
Ribbons unwound.

~

Her...

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I no longer care what you think
No….
I won’t be bound by your perceptions
Your box of pain
Your misconceptions
That fall like rain
On my parade

I don’t care
What you think of the state
Of my mind
Or my love life
Or my...

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Little Girl swings in the air,
legs pumping, wind in hair
the closest to flight she’ll ever be.
freedom and fairytales whisper in her ears,
telling her with each swing, she’ll be closer to the clouds.

Little Girl and Little...

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Tough skinned -strong, take it and dish it out.  
Thin skinned - overly sensitive.  
Skin of our teeth -
struggle for life, survival. 
Skin defines and designs us, 
the skin we’re in, through pain,...

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Back to the jungle once again
A long journey has come to an end
Over the clouds, through the hills
and down the river I have came
Everything is a little different
But somewhat the same
 
Here lie a people...

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Two weeks before 
we share our vows,
in my Miller Hospital
x-ray scrubs, I sit, 
a lull in the activity
of the morning exams
with Helen, a fellow 
wheel chair jockey.
Closely she examines me,
“Do you want to have
a happy...

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