Long Tonsils Poems

(Remembering Innocence)


Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are new tales, improvements to previous verses, and improved...

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All The Same
David J Walker
 
My neighborhood
Was filled with children 
All the same
Every freckle every name and
Every game we played on the
Playground after school
We were all the same
 
Ok 
there were David’s and Jimmy’s
And Billy’s...

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“It’s all in a day’s work
 Tryin’ hard to defend
 The time that I spend alone.”
     ~ Chaka Khan, “What ‘Cha Gonna Do For Me” from the album  UNSUPPORTED CODE...

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Blue was feeling melancholy and was far from feeling jolly 
by the window of his quarters on that moonlight night in May. 
The old mate was broken hearted since young Jess and he had parted:...

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Imagine a world where only you and I exist 
and only you and I matter. 

No boundaries ,
no limits, no
consequences...Only you and I free.

Free to behave as we feel
free to express our undeniable love
for one...

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1. INCIPIENT
the smell of burning body helps me sleep at night
i'd rather ignite this spark in my stomach than shove bread down my throat
singe this hollow home
choke these lungs with bone dry soil so nothing...

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Seems I’ve reminisced 
The feel
Of a home cooked meal
Ducking the pleasures 
Of a sainted veil 
A clause in the end
From which finer things appeal
Black jack matches not
To a fisher mans luck
On an antique reel
But on...

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Palms sweaty as I wait, and wait.
Time moving ever faster it seems.
The ticks turning into tocks at a rapid rate.
Time never slows when you want it to the most.
A half an hour passes by in...

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There are words choked up in my throat
Words I greatly long to say to you…
But nothing leaves my mouth—my heart…
You are too far away to hear them anyway
Yet somehow…I still can’t say it to myself
I...

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The rosa blanda embroidering your face
will become the veins in my tongue reaching to clog my throat
go past the tonsils and vocal chords and windpipe
down and down still, burrowing into the esophagus 
relentless in its...

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George worked in a construction company. He spent all his days walking the steel beam but when he got home, he became the master of inventions. One night he borrowed his wife's ironing board and...

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1. How didn’t I know an expensive dress
can cover a straggly skin?
my attention has now been diverted
to an escape as this voluptuary being
puts me under a deadly review
a lesson adequately learnt but with burnt tonsils.

Chorus
Where...

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Then:

naïve, sheltered, shy
what i thought
   i wanted to be -
an archeologist, Barbizon model (no proclivity),
a writer, a psychologist, a mom, a wife

Now:

brazen, talkative, traveller, open
   what i am -
a Christian, a...

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i am not thinking straight today 
as i make myself a spaghetti sandwich
ever since i kissed the lips of loneliness,
i have been fasting for the reuniting of our chemistry
however the end result is always anionic...

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When I was young,                                                        I loved french vanilla...

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OODLES OF KITTENS

our little nest
a bed and bathroom
a place where we’d shower and dress
and i pregnant oh my and yes

and those kittens my groom has spied
feeling compassion inside
as he revs up to play the dad

he...

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Take a year to finish a painting. 
He finished building that swing. 
Dismiss your own fear.
Is that a werewolf he can hear?

Take a year to paint a portrait. 
He wonders if he captured every trait....

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(this is a true story, mine ) 

When I was just a tot, my tonsils got infected all the time  
so my parents took me to the hospital right on time 
All I could...

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Wiggly Worms

They took out both tonsils and each adenoid
And now another sore throat I cannot avoid
There is nothing with left to collect the germs
Which once were dangling and wiggling worms.

Stopped complaining and conclusion came to
Very...

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Deeply inspired by a piano cover for a song called “With a thousand 
words to say but one”…the heart never, ever forgets. Wrote this in 6 minutes, 
the length of the song itself...

6 minutes, granted

Permission...

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Purple haze

Came a purple haze one of those days,
Back home in Dirranbandi
Amongst the trees grey haze we see’s
Just the spirits walking grandly

If you please old Joe he see’s ,
 a mate who was old Jack,
down...

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Morning glory this early I find has lost but found me speechless  
I'm aware I have a mouth although I can't seem to speak 
my blood is warm but I can't feel a pulse...

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We sit on chairs in the hall, one, two, three.
Two sisters, Pat and Trudy and me, one, two, three.
Mom, with her big purse sits across in dread.
the two girls needed their tonsils removed

I tease Pat...

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One Day I was listening to an old Cowboy song
My boots began to tapping & I began to sing along
A Cowgirl stepped to the mic & as she began to sing
It sounded like a falsetto...

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Love no stranger,
 Kiss no stranger,
 For, a stranger’s kiss,
 May prove amiss!

A lonesome dove,
Avid for love,
Strove to entrap someone,
Despaired, as she found none!

Proud of her beauty vain,
Spreads her net for every swain,
Approached a shepherd...

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