Long Strangler Poems

I walk o u t...

I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth
I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer
dissects my essence-fossil Passion
a seismic rupture between life/death/rebirth
gnaws at my marrow This dilemma-kudzu
coils tight, constricting tomorrow's breath

Death...

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Far as the (ease) 
severely myopic eyes can see,
nothing but polluted atmosphere
where skull and crossbones
memento mori betokens beware,

especially with increasing chronology
mortality becomes crystal clear
existential crisis yours truly didst despair
not so much death itself, but failure
(inadequacy)...

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Jack Sprat and wife Mary, lived in a glory of lemony, chiffon days;
Like maroon birds keep on singing, until the sunset, orange phase.

They were comfy and happy, like a picnic in lavish, emerald grass;
And had...

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I wear a veil of iron mesh,
it sheilds me from sensation,
it's like the one that Jackie wore
after Jack's assassination.

I was just a youngster then,
but, deep inside, I knew,
that with that act of violence
came the end...

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I had run out of it i'm out of it
mind you my mind that ran away
first by feet then by train
paxil was her name a rotundish
hard skinned pink pill of a pimp
so sleeping a tossing...

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Halloween is coming; there’ll be candy in the rooms
And the witches ride reconnaissance; up there on those brooms.
   Underneath the overpass; the trolls plan out attacks;
   It’s like fishing in a...

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Bloody shores of fear and ice, seldom seen
To be the stringent strangler borne of leaden blight
The barred bastard, whore of the night
Seen so the lowly leers led to fear the fall of life
Stitch of mind,...

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somewhere along the evolutionary spectrum
some wires were crossed &
when s/he realized their utter disgust for humanity
coupled with an urge for blood & guts
(all the things that whip up a snazzy b-horror film),
alas,
it was too late---
it...

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Florida Everglades Wind by Mark Mazzarella



Trolling over the deep backwaters of the Everglades, 
turtles snapped and alligators sunned on banks, still as statues. 
The lush landscape was quiet except for the occasional 
splash of a...

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Far away from our little village
In the middle of green paddy field
On the small mound the banyan tree was
Beneath calm and sweet shadow of green leaves
On the lap of this old giant tree
You and I...

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Punk !

Back then we knew what it was
T.V. screens were not our choice
But we sold ourselves
To a fashion
Said it was
Individualism
Just more colourful than the last one

First came the music
And then the love
But Punks were all...

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Here I go again
Dancing the Monster’s fancy
Until the curtain

Final curtain call
Chancing all my sanity
Final curtain fall

I went off my meds
Let the Monster out instead
To control my head

Daemon’s back as well
He tells me drinking is swell
As...

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The New Guinea native fought the Japanese in 1942.
Good on you Fuzzy Wuzzie

Kokoda Gubba Gubba....

In the hills of great Kokoda, on the swamps of Milne bay.
Tramped a weary native strangler whose tribe are gone today.
Him...

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Him
Some indecent evening you may see a ferret strangler
While he’s baying at the moon
Horse farts seem a little angrier
If they cannot keep in tune
Ponce across the withered lawn
While the first new bindei stings
Bloodshot eyes hung...

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Coastline of the peat swamp is obscuring. 
In addition, the shadow of a lone angler.  
Water lilies turn purple as the sun is setting.

Avoid being stung by sedge and strangler.   
I'm up to...

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The song of the soul is not jazz
Lowliness crumbles beneath the bruised conscience
Its a new day but the world is still the same

Pajamas can create a riot when they are not washed
Dirt and disorderliness of...

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The future never comes
The past is never done
The junction is where webs are spun
Then duly sewed undone
The frequency, where the free can see
Doesn't arise from your eyes
Nor vibrates down the road 
Or learned in code
Or...

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„hurry up! bring the holy water
or I’ll scratch myself out of existence“
sincerely
your gentle strangler...

...that’s the end of this ecstatic story
about the seasick captain
about the Laplace’s demon
caught in a bigot whirlpool
THE END in black capital letters
a...

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Comfort, some say, a cup of joe,
Coming to breakfast still yawning
Mornings’ pleasures the day dawning.

A restful sleep, ready to go,
Planning my work, include some play,
Eager to face another day.

I find my car covered with snow,
A...

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The Frog Strangler
(Idiom for a torrential rain)
Miracle Man
5/2/2022

With little variant, rain came straight down, 
winds whisper was so faint it couldn’t be heard.
Bar ditches, now so full of water a frog could drown,
but by this...

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They once met upon a poetry site,
shared romantic words by computer light.
His poems of rose pedals and floating doves,
her verses of broken hearts and jilted love.

Those touching comments soon lit a fire,
innocent flirting now burning...

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I'm holding in my anger 
Knowing I'd die to be the strangler
Of his sour-little coward-brittle throat 
I'm just mad not literal
But when your dad's a criminal
There's a  minimal amount of father hope
It doesn't bother me...

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