Long Symptomatic Poems

In 1968,
a time of great concern for healthy human civil rights
for and of women as well as LeftBrain culturally dominant men,
Gregory Bateson invited a Symposium
not quite a finished Symphony
proposing Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human...

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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL NAME: Donkey Pox

ORIGIN: First detected in Orwellian hippies, Leninist/Marxist think tanks, insane asylums, the Deep State, secret societies, and faculty and student lounges across America.  

TRANSMISSION: Pathogen mostly attacks highly sensitive unhinged white...

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Oh my dog, another yesterday (May 23rd, 2020) spent inside

Anomalous earthling inhabited 
mancave quarantined
cocooned gamesomely 
knowingly protected travesty
impossible mission sidestepping, 
thwarting, zapping
eventuality, inevitability, 

opportunity utilitarian death
crowning glory fêted within 
netherlands immortality
granted courtesy biological 
proliferation offspring...

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Zika Virus What Next

It is officially announced, there is a global health emergency...
World Health Organisation (WHO) has just issued this health warning...
The rapid spread of the Zika Virus is an international public health emergency..

From its...

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Wordsmith's worst nightmare

fortunately thwarted courtesy 
mine tall tale telling flair.

Mine irretrievable brilliant masterpiece...
all for naught after mental cogs and wheels
I did apply creative juice metaphorical grease
regarding tour de force pièce de résistance writing
forever lost to...

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When the stomach of a child
Who has overfed rumbles, it is not 
In memory of the empty hands of the past
Or what the future holds in hand
It is to mock hunger by saying all is...

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In antediluvian times, so pluviophilian
Red and gold adorned the grandiloquent pavilion.
With circumlocution's mellifluous elocution
Yellow frankincense sparked a yuletide revolution.

Colors of Christmas idiosyncratic and bright
Symptomatic of joy a quintessential sight!

Black's defenestration led to white's sequestration
Blue myrrh,...

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If ignorance is no excuse 
under the law.
Can you imagine what stupid is?
Stupid are the people who
Win the lottery and have 
A good time spending money
and some give it away,
Not saving a dime for a...

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The trackmarked pain on the televisions face raining out and cocooning his grave was not a
very good advertisement for reincarnation Wake up at last near the worlds end crescent in
fetal shape symptomatic riding electric spasms...

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It all started in late December at Wuhan
zoonotically transmitted from seafood market at Huanan
Pneumonia like cases brought in the focus
authorities surreptitiously making it hocus-pocus

It Spread across the globe like fire
causing fear, anxiety, distress and ire
Symptomatic...

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Burning man syndrome diagnosed quite rare

  A life drowned by a sea of intense pain

    Without warning walking unable to bear

       Red ink covering soles...

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Corona Virus



For these are terrible times
COVID 19, 
The modern plaque,
The tragedy of our lives 
Medical personnel at the frontlines 
Armed with rubber gloves and face masks
Battling a virus ravaging the town
And the world at large

Sheltered...

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Without ever consuming
                     bureaucratic butter or
         ...

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Do you trust in the future enough to have kids,
Or is family - flailing of heart split in two?
Is it  more symptomatic of life on the skids
Could it be that a child's an extension...

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Miscalculations and moments of self-assertion
These mistakes, I wish I learned the first time
Abating in my conceit with obvious wounds to show
A battered and bitter human but less off a being
Inward and beyond, a lack of...

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Empty Nest
Norma Evans Barber
11-29-10

The silence of a quiet nest
Surrounds me
As I sit at the sink
Chewing on my probiotic pomegranate seeds
Blood red and juicy,
Severing with my tongue seed from seed
Through and around bridge cavities, 
Bunching groups...

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Is love a sweet whisper of comfort in the midst of the night?
Is love a phone call that makes a gray day seem like a ray of sunlight?
Is love a look in the eys that...

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My doctor can't explain my feverish condition
That makes my heart stand still then suddenly take wing
Each time I get a kind of tingly premonition
That very soon it will be spring.

I see rainbows, but it's clear,...

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Weapons Countered by Gun Control

Terrorists on roof tops click, click, click
Talking about whackos sick, sick, sick
With automatic weapons as their sabre
Can you imagine one as next door neighbor.

Played and made a loud, obnoxious song
With their...

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Do not produce children
telepathic hypochondriac...
don't transform girls
  in symptomatic blind
don't do women
changed functions
think of the wounds
Like splenic roses
But oh don't forget
the rose of the rose
From the rose of Hiroshima
the perpetual rose
the radioactive rose
monstrous and...

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