Long Take a picture Poems

I used to slit my arms open like I was peeling fruit—careful, slow, watching the skin give way like wet paper. The box cutter blade was dull, sticky from God knows what—maybe dried glue, maybe...

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(##background singers##)
Honestly, things are getting out of proportion (Do your part, man!)
Give me a portion of your love (a portion of your love)
You’re my ultimate luck, desire and devotion 
You’re as beloved and spectacular 
As...

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THE MANY PATRON SAINTS OH HOW I RELY ON SAINT ANTHONY DURING THE DAYS OF REACHING FOR SOLACE FOR PEACE OF MIND REMEMBERING ME BEFORE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY THEN I COULD THREAD A NEEDLE REMEMBER...

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During the next months both
Delilah and Mallory attended
Many family events. Molly 
Was  already 6 months 
pregnant while Dolly was 
4 months pregnant.
And Damian was happy. 
Damian Junior Was then 
3 years old and attended...

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Submitted to the "Gone Fishin" contest
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Trollin’ the islands at Texoma,
It was April, 1964.
New rod and reel in hand,
I’d NEVER been fishing before.

A Garcia 2510T casting rod.
The reel, a Mitchell 301,
Plus hand-selected worms and lures…
I was...

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Far Away, Far Away

Children when you dream at night you may see an awesome sight!
Magic fairies in the dew near trilliums of snow white hue.
You must search within your dreams by the light of midnight...

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I love you he said
I love you so much I'm never letting go 
You can't share a love you haven't given to yourself yet
So, I dug up the dead pieces of my heart and replanted...

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I cried: Dragon I beseech Thee… Not to tempt me with your crazy ways!
Yet here I am, always… again… caught in your vortex every, single day.
Now he wants a statue, made in his own image...

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Part 2: 1st Revelation
The third tour of travel was in the heart of the man.  He had traveled to several places within his country; however, this was his third time to Europe.  In...

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A fat flat packed duck billed platypus was not on a platter. In fact it had escaped under a robe. With a robin. The robin was to be stuffed into a pigeon which was stuffed...

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Sometimes I wonder if he realizes how he makes me feel.
Like I'm not important at all kinda like I don't really matter.
I wish he would do like old times and just talk and chill.
Without him...

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Take a picture

Take a picture, of a man, do you see? Hologram is gone
Yeah, keep the photo, keep it, watch the face, it is love
Your love, he needed you, but the time is gone, bring...

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Tried to take a picture, but the world wouldn’t sit still
and I don’t have the breath for a thousand words.
Fantasizing what I have to say, knowing I never will -
subordinate to suppressive hands like a...

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Our boat is first to slice
The green snake skin of Clam Lake
This Saturday morning in May

Heading east to the mouth of Grass River
Where angry Pike still hunt from shallows
Before the Milfoil grows to summer impossible

My...

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I SAID BURN THOSE MITTENS, NOT KITTENS
  
So isn't it cute the way newborn kittens can't open their eyes
    eyes like the government has on all of us...................
pass a red light...

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WHAT IS THAT RED BUTUH................

So isn't it cute the way newborn kittens can't open their eyes
    eyes like the government has on all of us...................
pass a red light and they take a...

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To You, I’d used to address my man covered with grime 
  
Poetry was space of style and dressing that I fill 
  
Panicked, incapable, feared loosing rhymes 
  
I thought once:...

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In the shower
when the water is hot and my skin is red
I can see the scars
Still see them
Even after years
Even after rubbing oil on them for days, months in a row
The scars were once organized
But...

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They all sit there lined up in a row 
Not knowing when exactly when to go 
Decisions are made on the image they are looking for 
As the applicants mumble at the door. 

Mommas got...

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You need a smart phone to get your number.
Take a picture of the square with the code,
answer the text message, “yes I am here”.
My number D106, better take a seat.

The interracial gay couple next to...

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Master piece

A masterpiece 
A work of Art 
Created from our fathers heart 
Unique and wonderfully made 
He mastered and completed 
Yet some defeated 
They left you out 
Mastering a piece 
Don't come easy 
It comes...

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Memorial Day

Memories that have been made 
Lives celebrated for the price they paid 
Sacrificing for a country 
Who has has went down so bluntly 
Values , pride and joy are some of the qualities 
That...

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I hear things that make my dear heart lose its composure.
The news of Earthquakes,cyclones,and tornadoes have brought my rigid heart to a fracture.
Our lands have felt them,even the air,the waters and those high places that...

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MYSTICAL

Life gives me a mystical meaning for I am unique,
an original, wonderfully and meticulously created.
They say “God works in mysterious ways” and it
is true for I do believe and find my life a mystery.

Why would...

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Have you seen the movie
you know the one
Woody Allen, 
the call girl, son

That’s my favorite
Mango 
sauce, 
sushi 
sashimi 
land of the lost

bad Santa, Will Farrell
Italian singers, 
Bach, 
Beethoven
your little fingers

Try this salad
Thai and sweet
I’m getting...

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