Long Spare tire Poems

Driving my car across the country, numerous years ago, going to a new place,       
     Changing who I’d know
A loud bang broke the boredom and...

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Inside A ‘72 Econoline

This old green van has a musty smell to it,
Like a pair of sweaty rancid socks
Mixed with half-empty beer cans.
It’s a banged up thing, this ’72 Econoline.
Scratches and mysterious dents 
Cover its...

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They are forming clusters in the sky, and you cannot see them with your naked eyes you have to consult the giant telescope and go deep sea fishing in a construction boat, and when the...

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Oh, yes, angels are real ...

Late fall of 1974, just after Halloween -
I was driving home from prep school one Friday afternoon,
After a long week of intense studies and soccer ...
On Interstate 295 between Yarmouth...

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In the cold of the morn with a crisp cloudy day…
A flat tire assailed a young girl, as she went on her way.
Young and full of life but definitely overwhelmed…
She was late for work and...

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Do it without trying
Begin by swinging from chandeliers when home
Wear matching multicolored harlequin costumes
Equip yourselves with harmonicas and bazookas
Keep lubricants and trampolines near by for safety
Practice lunar landings in your room

Resume your activities in the...

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Greater is He who is in me the Lord Jesus Christ 
Greater is the gifts He's given to me His love and the breath of life

Too many times people discount the Ultimate Creator
they treat God...

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Begin by swinging from chandeliers when home
Wear matching multicolored harlequin costumes
Equip yourselves with harmonicas and bazookas
Keep lubricants and trampolines near by for safety

Practice lunar landings in your room to
Resume your activities in the great outdoors

Do...

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A father and a son were driving down a deserted road when a flat tire put them in a funk.
There was a spare tire…but no lug nut wrench or jack inside their trunk.

This was long...

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Well I don’t know about you long suffering friend,
But there’s hardly a day that goes by
I don’t wake up and notice the dings in my paint
How the sun is now rising up high in the...

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Holidays can put a lot of miles
on the gastronomical tread ...
That last slice of cake
will have you wobbling to bed
So you better hope you’re at home,
and not somewhere else instead
Because now you’re starting to feel...

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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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Here's a tale of a white Chevy Corvair, I car I'll never forget
   Repossessed from a gypsy, I'd be willing to bet...

On a cold, snowy winter night, February 1968
   This 'bagel'...

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Dad began work pushing a broom at the Chrysler Corporation.
A paltry fifty-five cents an hour was his compensation!
'Twas during the Great Depression when times were really hard.
He was elated to get the job and held...

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Ball Boys Done It 

I confess have to guess how they got in this mess;
Did not possess any fines when they did address
The public as to problem Patriots had to bare;
Failed to fill ball with...

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Ah, I remember those smashing
days when I was dancing till dawn!
Refusing to be a workforce pawn.

It left no lines, but painted a smile on my face!
I enjoyed the joy, the people-peppered life.
Marvelously, frenzied, frenetic pace.

Being...

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Back then, it was our only means of transportation
You see, It was Mom, Dad and me
On an old ranch in New Mexico, where raid drops never fell
Most of the time it got us to our...

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(Froggy)
His  big crooked smile; the bump on his nose;
His extra large feet with short stubby toes.

Eyes sort of popping beneath eyebrows bushy;
A spare tire middle with such a small tushy!

His loud guitar music; his...

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Been running like the devil with his pants on fire.
Tearing up a rutted road with no spare tire.
Racing toward the sunset in a reckless mood
While the tension turns my knuckles white
And I grit my teeth,...

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WE WERE THE FOOLS
Harvard, named after a minister
	Yale, started by a clergyman
	great foundations soon destroyed
	by evolutionists they employed
Our institutions had right intentions
	soon all of the signs
	pointed in the wrong directions 
A godless-radical fought a God...

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If in a singles ad you spot
    a 'RUGged individualist'
  Don't be surprised if he
    lays carpet for 'Magikist' *  

  Perchance you'll get excited
 ...

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we're done

The ting is,
I am not gonna sit still  and wait,
any longer
with hands crossed over my chest,
for you to knock at my door,
love me once more,
then live empty as a whole, 
tired of waiting,
treating...

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You made my love a convenience just needing me whenever you want me
used and misused, selfishly
I knew there was something fishy 
But I didn't want to explore the fish in the sea
But now I see...

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Spare tire is kept available
As an urgent need replacement
To a dead flat rubber cushion
Of a wagon off the pavement.

A spare tire is an excess fat
Around someone's heavy waistline; 
If girl gets rid of this thickness,...

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Needles and strips. Feet that's sore.
Aches and pains. Meters that store.

Numbers go up. Then they go down.
Cookies and pasta and cake all around!

Daily walks. Nutritious food.
Cinnamon helps. Some herbs do.

Fenugreek, bromelain and boswellia stew.
Fish and...

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