Long Subscribed Poems

The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris

I led a boring life.
The end.

All joking aside, now the epilogue.

As a bookish fellow born January 13th,1959
he attended school and got promoted
as a...

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slang..
up-dogged = when you chip in to keep a conversation trend going
fit = gorgeous
buje = unexplainable glamor
football minute = a minute, that with time-outs, that lasts a half an hour.
crute = cute but cringy
women's-rights =...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXIV - LXV


NOTE (facts to bear in mind while reading) : Under the French Penal Code, harm done to the infirm, minors and seniors (i.e. over 65) is...

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ALL YOU CAN EAT

by

JOHN M. ARRIBAS


I never subscribed to an unusual idea
That aliens are among us and thriving here
I now question my stand on that theory
Cause I’ve noticed some bodies quite eerie
I see gigantic beings...

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1) I hate brown-nosers far more than I hate most other nosers 
of virtually any known color!

2) I will make it a point to slap you in front of your superiors,
with a biblical fury, the...

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The gift of Christ
Verse 1:
They told me life is short man, enjoy it while it last
I said have fun like Zacchaeus, mehn I just want to rap
I glorify God through my craft people appreciate it
If...

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The Accoutrements of Knowledge



The accoutrements of knowledge
had crept into his life, overtaking it.
No more did he sit and think,
idly allowing nuance to shade gray
the black and white of learning’s
playful inconsistencies.  Old books,
manuals, manuscripts, texts,
subscribed...

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The Bottle 
Heart aches and pain swallowed up in bottles. Mind aching inside, hard to hide the aftermath of a battered heart, a severed soul, but better alive than dead by your own hands. Take...

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Anne Murray did have quite the flurry, voice as a brook without crooks
 Canadian born, songs of forlorn, beautiful vibes, I subscribed
Such singing as a bird, the world has never heard, she splurged
“O Little Snow...

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*I normally don't like notes with poems but, a couple of things: I thought it would be interesting to capture the moment of Jesus' execution from the viewpoint of a non-believer. in addition, I wrote...

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They say dreams are the gateway to the show, the subconscious
like dreams are the free movies you subscribe to 
once you close your eyes
If that's true
then what kind of movies am I subscribed to
What on...

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I hate that I can write this
Because it means on one level or another
One of us failed the other
Or perhaps we failed ourselves

Did I ever know I'd be your tragic hero?
It's hard to predict when...

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My life has been fairly stable. Rarely does an event “change my life” in any significant way. Marriage, children, one’s job. Of course, these alter one’s life course, but when I think of a life-changing...

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A silly superstition enwraps and grips me, 
It holds me and will not loosen its vile, crushing deathgrip:
It is a numerical one, this foolish superstition to which I have my subscription, 
For this is the...

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Punishes without any crime committed!
He makes individuals abye the amiss of others.
He could be a lifetime durance to one's soul
The victim walk flaneur like dead poles.

Their anguish cries only heard by them within their raptured...

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Right now if I am to be truly single, then I want to unwind and remove all I have 
 believed and subscribed to.
If I am to muddle through life alone, then I want to...

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Poised with elegance rare
Confidence oozing...
Eyes fixed with a glance and stare
Melting the garrison of my heart
Once fortified to parry away
Darts from others
Who could rip open the healing wounds
I am disarmed......

A gazelle, marble, turquoise...a rare gem
Help...

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A Major Seaport

She sure was such a sweet local librarian
But would always turn into a barbarian;
When I did something that I must confess
Left my table in library a big mess.

Around for a while, I soon...

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People drink rum
And act dumb 
Just for a spank in a bum 
Those are the ones that make me feel numb 
They say love does not exist
Check the Brocken hearted in their list
Because they are...

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I’ve learned to move through this world
at a pace that feels honest to me—
not slow, not fast, just real.

People mean well, I know.
They offer paths, perspectives,
suggestions shaped by their own lived truths.

Sometimes I listen closely,...

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and Super marked
I am with you that
right there my family
it was just jaysayin
I dont like it none
but you have relized
that! nun the subject
whatever it is brought
that you have subscribed
the cap if finished
that like pasal I
ya...

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Blindly he came forward.
Called out from the crowd.
He felt awkward, not knowing
for what purpose the call came.

He had come to feed his brothers,
soldiers in the King's army, 
men of strength and courage.
Feeding them required no...

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When I was little, I enjoyed further more
soccer than today ... I liked  it so much
every day I went to my uncle's house who
subscribed to a magazine.
There I tried to read Times magazine ......

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They poisoned almost everything
their grocery store could hold.
Where all they knew as additives
and modified was sold.

Then paid for politicians
to put labels on for mind.
That expedite designer death
through purchases in kind.

Then set their sites on living
as...

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So recently I heard that the present is past
And the future is now, a nudge to peruse fast
Maybe I should have been let into this data sooner
Maybe if I had subscribed earlier

But instead hobbling because...

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