Long Staph Poems

My roommates Leong, Sophie, (Charles) and I were coming from a Yale sporting event. The sky looked like a dirty Swiffer-mop and the wind seemed to be ignoring the posted 20mph speed limit. It was...

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When I was a little girl, 
I went through the most traumatic experience of my life.

I was diagnosed with a deadly infection in my femur bone;
Doctors had never seen a staph infection as bad as...

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In 1996 I was living in DC
while serving as a diplomat
At the State Department
My wife was in the military
Serving as a major in San Antonio
 
That fateful morning, I went jogging
Early in the morning
Fell down...

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Gangsta politicians,
falling stars   ...   twinkling
of an eye 
	disappearing

Leper lips
	 halitosis blowing
Got there gun clips
and stacked deck 
	    poker chips ...
Sin City bullets overflowing

Body politic,
staph tongue infection
Still the voters...

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I feel I have appendicitis,
Or a bad case of bursitis,
And I think I need another tonsillectomy.
I'm sure I got a staph infection
From a tetanus injection
While I was prepping for a hemorrhoidectomy.
I've got cataracts and shingles,
When...

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Last year was a hard year with 
             alot of bumps in the road.I have
        ...

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More awake than ever before
In a Universe of Darkness!
The cold grips me to my core,
But without a body, shiverless.

No heavenly bodies or light,
Only layers of blackened fog.
Then a figure appeares to the right,
And moving, disturbs...

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I have seen miracles 

Written By Dean Masciarelli

October 19, 2009 (5:02pm)


I have seen miracles
take place 
in my own life time

And every one of them

Have been 
wonderful blessings

Especially when 
I really needed them

The first one was
the...

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When you see I look just fine,
looking like im having fun,
it's that Trelegy ellipta, all mine,
my life saving,
horribly hard-core,
expensive friend.
Improves quality of life
but hastens that final end.
It's that daringly dubious
double edged sword.
There's no purpose in...

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Beware there man when out for your drink
Your wondering eye the one that don't think
Basking in glory man of the hour
Spotting one there pretty hair with a flower

Spending your pay wife at home wait
She seems...

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Having a dog saved my life

when I was a young lad
a dog bit me
and I became terrified of dogs
and to some sense still am

but then many years ago
i had a dog
a husky dog
raised as a...

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He was a man of God but that thug didn't care in the least.
That animal walked into a Parish and murdered the Priest.
When he was arrested, he said that he killed the Priest because he...

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Garnished notion
Shallow Waters
Curtains closing
Empty Bottles
Staph infections
Rose Garden
Driven Direction
Key Center peace in turn
Rock Mountain Grey urn
Golden pasta macaroni cheese
Green Acres eggs in ham
Death mute it praised alien
 rambling in the Old English band
While singing Old Lady...

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It is true I am a Madman! -Pick a line from a book and write a poem based on that line, NaPoWrMo
 

It is true I am a Madman! 

TRUE! —nervous—very, very dreadfully 
nervous I...

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