Long Tanked Poems

Bedlam and mayhem in the mistress's boudoir

Nsync with variations on a theme:
of drool worthy Reuben Sandwich
(consisting of corned beef, 
Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, 
Russian dressing between slices 
of rye bread that is grilled 
until the bread...

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Ted’s libido has now gone astray
He refused a quick roll in the hay
So what could be the cause -   
It’s the male menopause   
He’s been grumpy and snappy all day!
 
His...

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Peter (my bf) is coming to town - tonight. I’m breathy with excitement.
My energy is so sick. “Someone scrape her off the walls,” Leong remarked, as I bounded out of my room this morning.
Lisa winced,...

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The Moby Dick Reunion 


One hundred fifty nine years have passed
Since Melville published his novel.
Seven hundred twenty pages in length
Some say it was much too nautical. 

All of the characters have gathered.
They’re going to have...

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The Hustler 
 
sun up ~ to sun .... down
racking ~ stacking ~ busting ...balls 
cues to leaving   ....  fast
            ...

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A baseball team hard to follow
Failures really tough to swallow
Many problems from stem to stern
Fans' frustration in a slow burn
Managers don't know what to do
To get the Dodgers out of the blues
Too close to Hollywood...

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I trusted all doctors, thought they know best
So many years learning, a noble quest
They want to do well by helping you
But from any kind of knowledge, evil can brew.

Scott was a dentist, a noble career
But...

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New World Order; Psychological Warfare

Split minds, souls at unrest; UFOs or USOs? 
Wealth, lost in the wash, fear-mongering media, 
indoctrinated control. Listen here, listen there. 
Do what you are told. Lost, chock full of filth....

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Happy.  Genial.  Merry.  Jolly
Blottoed, blasted, etched and blitzed
Mellow, foggy, hazy, squiffy
Tipsy.  Tiddly.  Brahms and Liszt

Dazed, zombied, tanked-up, trollied
Ganted, gubbed, guttered
Bladdered, blathered, leathered, plastered, 
Sozzled, sloshed, scuttered

Hammered, battered, caned, mangled
Spannered, mullered....

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Not the average insolent
little boring sympathy beggar
Keep your expensive acceptance
I prefer my own
I can smoke my own ego in a pipe without having to taste yours.
The indecent part of me likes to battle it out
knowing...

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All by His grace;
Oh! God be praised;
And tanked for this;
Be praised ALWAYS;
Always be praising to God;
Oh, God be praised;
For all He does;
I give thanks for all He’s done;
May the Lord be glorified?
It's my prayer
One day...

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The realization is that
both parties want to maintain power
at the expense of "we the people".
That's why they rarely work together
at every turn they undercut the other
manipulate "the pay to play' media.
Both parties fan the flames...

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I stuffed my pockets full of California minutes,
Set out from Bakersfield before the break of day.
Checked out a waitress at a coffee shop in Needles
Then blew through Flagstaff on my way to Santa Fe.

Cut loose...

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Blink awake, get up,
Brew reviving cup,
Breathe each fuelling sup,
Then to the cleansing waters go,
Inhale the essence slow,
Awash with ebb and flow,
Purified head to toe,
Mystery of water empower
At this early hour
The mind comes to in the...

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Hopped a rattler out of Akron.
Rode the high end all the way.
On the Erie-Lackawanna,
Made North Jersey by next day.
Between a bottle and a biscuit,
And that’s all I’m gonna say.

‘Twas a rude accommodation.
No Angelina on my...

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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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Tanked temps pools inky smears ere striking lights,
nightstand shelved as bed post warming invites,
facade postpones ceiling beams gold strike streaks,
soleless...

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i hardly recognize the brand new you
the fog has changed me and left my canvas monotonous
you remind me of the day we first met
i was a streetlight transient sneezing out prayers
you were the apple of...

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the raging oceans!
dolphins surfing white horses!
mermaids inviting!
dawns red coloured clouds, warnings!
ignore the siren singing!
…
autumnal storms blow!
leaves, yellow, orange, red, bronze.
natures confetti!
woodland colour, revealing!
jostling, rustling, dancing leaves.
…
storm, weather, brainstorm,
multicolour, black or white.
cleared the air. think-tanked,
both holding...

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One weekend I decided to do some camping
Along with good friends
and go horseback riding.
Cooking away on the open pit
not my thing, I must admit.
So I decided to have a ride
In the middle of the night
Upon...

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LIQUID THREAD

reed thin sluggish thread
moves toward poolmouth
an oblique dry wet that
slithers into my head

thick tiredtongue paste
watered down dissolves
sweat turns—then returns
a burning corrosive taste

carefrayed threadbare
shrinking ripples 
righteous writes
unpoemed unpictured
on white page glare

I, Venus  a hotred
Orange
blistered...

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anxiety, care, corruption, creation, destiny, environment, rainforest,

CHERRY-PITS AND FOGGY AIR©

Miseries mount on high
If only I had that again
Too little too late too much
Life’s no bowl of cherries
And the rain fell hard today!

Skies sheathed in dust...

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We danced and howled with
with laughter through confetti!
Blew horns and kissed aplenty
Because~The New Year was here!

With joy and gladness,we threw
off last year's sadness!
Champagne we drank, yes some
overly tanked.
Because ~ The New Year was here.

Each day,...

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[ with a hint of the bridge from A Man Has Dreams
sung by the character George Banks in Mary Poppins ]


A bank is a community where people banked
They did so with impunity until it tanked
When...

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