Long Taw Poems

"Small Mutinies"



So what if my point of view
is not that which wraps 
you in comfortably warm
fluffed-up silky 
cashmere blankets 
of insecure insincerity
simple scribbles 
bleating from the 
chirping crickets 
and frog croaking
symphonies 
muddying waters
cutting pristine lines...

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Deva Ossig, the landlady (and property owner) turned rogue

Just a couple weeks shy 
and seven years ago to the day,
I still remember contractual obligations
our previous residential abode
724 West Railroad Avenue, 
Bryn Mawr 19010 zip code
volatile...

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Expiry date               
                 14.

I taught...

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My toilet was a hole outside
                             ...

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Cought a ride on a train
Just to get out of the rain
Love to hear that sound
But I have found
It  just leads to more people down the track
Panic attack
Today
I have a place to stay
I do...

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Aeons and Aeons and Aeons  of  Energy
Beaming Both Ways into Infinity
Ultimate – Top Level – Supremacy
Pure – Power, Full-Force – Almighty
… Too Awesome in The Intensity
for Either you or me, to See…

‘… The...

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back a small number of years thee diva of this domicile
exhibited an aura, charisma, enigma…devoid of any guile
boot of late turned a cold shoulder to me and I’ll
avoid denigrating, haranguing, and lambasting said dell lisle
la,...

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| Friday | 12 | August | 2016 | 10:18 PM |
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~ Okëmön a Okëmön ~
|
Okemön a Okemön.
na ino di maTimpalas
i piyamaka Rinayag
Na Bacon maTamparasa
a Piya makaMawaga
i Matag Dalin-Ndalina?
l
Okemön a Okemön.
Na inikaliwat 'TdN
a Tumolo-Tulong dN
na...

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WHATS SO MORBID ABOUT WHAT I DID?
TURN THE LID OF POISON AND TAKE A LONG QUENCHING SIP.
I CAN STILL TASTE IT, BITTER THE HANGING LIP.
I BITE THE VERY TIP OF THE HANGING MANGLED LIP.
THE BLOOD...

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| Friday | 01 | July | 2016 | 05:12 AM
l
~ KaWa saTig o Digong
l
Ayday dingkadn kharaw?
A pangitk aya ingd
Na aya daging o Digong
Ko Kiyapangadap iyan
Ko myarangcom a ingd
Na Ayday kiyatabowan!
A kalalalongan iyo.
l
Kna a bolong...

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I taught I taw a weird sight on Halloween nwight, 
I swear, I can still picture it in my horrwified head.
Mr. Magoo was there and filled with fwight,
but unlike before this time he wasn’t polite....

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Look at olé Manny over there.
He's been praying for grown back hair.

Hair back 
Back hair

Hair is neither here nigh under where.

At night we pray for tight'ee whites;
Following morning awaken by a huge wedgie wearing panties.

Shake...

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I’m Tweety Bird and ‘I tawt I taw a puddy tat,’
But what I mean, Trump’s nightmares fear a democrat,
I’m as yellow as your hair, tweet,
Feel sure you dye it fair, tweet,
Vulgar antics towards opponents, shows...

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God moves a universe 
like a child playing marbles...
Holds the shooter 
between the thumb and index finger.
At the speed of light planets collide
galaxies whirl in a sea of miracles.
Shattering the taw called impossible.

Colored explosions- space...

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~so ilano akn kiran ~

Alamat ko sabaad ,
a dimasusorot a pd ,
na dima paparo a pd ,
na mainot so ndadata ,
na Lbi a katawangko...

Pnto angka i sabap,
a izaw olano akn?
na dadna rata adar,
o abay abayn...

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Otay! I’m an alien, toe what?
I used to wive on the pwanet Pwuto
Too told! TOE, I fwew to the moon
BOOOW-ING! (Eveeting too white!)
Toe I fwuttered down to Waw Tageles
Where I betame a BIG movie tar

Dey...

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Weeeeel, It's friday night
And I got my fiddle 
Alfred's here 
And he starting to niggle
I said call the dance
And make those folks wiggle
Here at the Soup hoe down

He stood at the mike
And started talkin' silly
with...

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saw blue peek out - yesterday.
what? you say:
i tawt i taw a puddy tat.*
i did! i did!*
and white and purple clouds,
for realz,*
can’t make this up.
and yet, today,
the sky is made of steel,
so back to
same old...

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