Long Tanking Poems

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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Free association comprises ratiocination...

Bonafide catatonic doggedness,
nevertheless this stubborn stoic poet writ
afore and another feeble effort courtesy
exhaustive mental effort
he brewed den - brought about divine visit
analogously to solve mystery pinpointing
within suspense unveiling whodunnit.

Whereat your true
plane vanilla...

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Free association comprises ratiocination...

Bonafide catatonic doggedness,
nevertheless this stubborn stoic poet writ
afore and another feeble effort courtesy
exhaustive mental effort
he brewed den - brought about divine visit
analogously to solve mystery pinpointing
within suspense unveiling whodunnit.

Whereat your true
plane vanilla...

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This country’s sure got problems
Corruption, crime, and drugs.
And though we try to fix the world
The world just hates our guts.
But for all our woes and troubles
I still love the US
‘Cause compared to the rest of...

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Get a job! (Soapbox Poetry)  

Reaching your hand in another man’s pocket
Taking your fill, still you’re screaming for more
Limits are reached due to faults in the system
What do our children have waiting in store?

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Why...

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Japan, land of rising SUN

Faced Natures devastation
Tsunami, earthquake obliterated cities
Lost all but not hope, maturity, sanity

Collective harmony, community first attitude
No honking, no mad overtaking; only understanding on jammed roads
No shoplifting when lights fused in malls

Mature...

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A shouting senile old fool tanking in the polls trying to save his ass.

It would take someone a helluva lot smarter than Joe to gaslight me.


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I cried  my heart out
For i am hurting, but no one pays attention 
Ozone depletion my signature symptom 
But they wouldn't let go
I cried out until until my tears caused floods  and stirred...

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The world is on fire because of propaganda and liars
The world may not be flat but we're close to the edge
Just a little, just a little, just a silly little push
But there's just one thing...

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The only thing that still remains
Are memories and family names
Of girls you loved; the guys; your friends
These are the things that have no ends

The houses grew smaller
The neighbor kids taller
And parents of friends have all...

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Taught Iago to trance,
the pungent smell made me balance the stance,

raided the 'pulse' and sought no other deviant,

I was looted in the same way I soared above all the monumentleness, 
and got into it ahead.

They...

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I was a simple picture of a person,
just a gulp of a guy.
She was not my first girl; she was the second.

It was a Dairy Queen date, 
banana milkshakes, me tanking-up on her foggy 
eyes,
imagining...

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I was a simple picture of a person,
just a gulp of a guy.
She was not my first girl; she was my second.

It was a Dairy Queen date,
banana milkshakes,
me tanking-up on her foggy eyes,
imagining her naked...

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This is a tanka, because Canada is "tanking":

I
There are 3 countries that are really "North America" -
Canada, Us, and Mexico (Most forget Mexico is North!)

II
"Stainless Steel" Lady Mcgreavy updated me on the news from Canada...

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