Long Stiffs Poems

This was only our second date...

A Black Tie Affair...

...Set against an incredible view,
vineyards, waterfalls,
a plentitude of flower beds,
all just outside a charming postcard Town.

This indeed was a serious event,
anyone  who was anyone...
and my date...were here.

A...

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Abominable holiday season greeting to the have-nots me and you
Bombshell tabloid sleigh bells got those ear holes ringing
Cut the tax gift wrap ribbon, only good cheers for the wealthy few
Ducky Little Donald beaky wacky-quacky curse...

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It's my body, and I'll cry if I want to!
Lie if I want to!
Die if I want to!
You might die too if I come near you.

No vaccine pricks my skin. 
Absolute is my right 
to...

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I could write to you about what it feels like to be
unhinged, untethered, to float on a breeze of malintent
But what would it matter to you?

Thinking random thoughts anchorless, 
adrift in a typhoon of emotional...

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*Image of Contrary To Popular Belief by Medium.

The End Times

A locomotive train chugs remote wails,
The tempest brews a calamitous stunt,
Falls of exiting steam, moist teary tails,
A structure of ills desires cured a want.

Veil vibration replaced...

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Ah! For the good old days when you could fill the tank for a dollar.
If folks paid more'n a quarter a gallon, my, how they'd holler!
Nowadays, it necessitates a usurious loan from the bank,
Or a...

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Ossenburger, the business genius, 
when he graduated from college, 
he started a budget mortuary service.

Five dollars a corpse!
He was the Wal-Mart of death.
Burry ‘em, burn ‘em, float ‘em down the river, 
get ‘em by the...

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I’d like to discuss the manners of crow,
That dine on the roads where cars come and go.

They peck at road kill without forks or knives,
But ‘caw, caw’ to their friends, saving their lives.

They don’t use...

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*Image of Best Collapse by Giphy.

Pilfered Soulless House

Pilfered dawn occasions a soulless house, bruised
appeals innocence whilst porch screen once tended,
concedes whispers of dust calm quest of quarters,
        ...

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The virgin under the pristine sheet,
patrols the creaking, cut, timber of time,
through the blooming roses and the sleet.
The grandiose grandfather chimes.

She used to shine her eyes near the shallows.
The young lass can only shriek her...

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I wished to find the words for you - so beautiful and dear,
The pretty ones that you would be so happy just to hear - 
And when I found the very bestest, selected just for...

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For if time live longer than i could
if you mutter and i am mute
if you lay your head on my breast
and i refuse to embrace
do not cry.

For when you see my nostrils and ears
blocked in...

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the rich, the poor and the middle class
an invisible subliminal system of caste
we are suppose to be a nation of freedom and opportunity
a democratic society based upon equality
but in all actuality
it's about the economy

to be...

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Oh say can you see the land of the freebie 
and the home of the ungrateful bleating
where borders are blown wide open by vote vamps 
to the glee of coyotes -desperados -the depraved..
Stars and stripes...

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What gives me the feeling that I want to stand up and cheer?
Just read the lines I've written below if you want to hear...

It started with the love of family tradition...
Getting "In House" lessons of...

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The blackbird has gone maggoty
Lara stiffs at it
shakes a grub off her wet nose
and sneezes.

Then as if fiction were uncannily real
another similar bird drops out of a tree.

For a short while it flutters
turning in a...

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 A Footle Murder Mystery

The sleuth
in truth
Was miffed.
The stiffs,
As such,
Weren’t much;
No clue 
In view
To find
This kind
Of crook,
Who took
The stash
Of cash
Then wrote
A note
To tell
How swell
(Misspelt!)
He felt.

“It’s clear,
I fear,
The crime 
This time
Was done
By one
Who knew
How few
Are we
Who...

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The arctic tundra contains strange critters
called lemming, which, legend says, jump off cliffs.
Their fate's enough to give one the jitters,
imagine finding all those frozen stiffs.

When overcrowding becomes an issue,
it's rumored, they all stampede to the...

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Purple bats and evil cats and strangled ghosts that laugh 
jet black cloaks, snickering blokes and witches that gaff 

Pumpkin grins, talking garbage bins and all that moves 
Halloween rhymes and pentacle signs with evil...

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Walkin’ in  sunfogged early morning
Waiting for pain to go away
The aches and  stiffs that come with rising
Off to build a brand new day
Summer thrives on making lazy
But Fall slips in to have her...

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