Long Tonya Poems

Alison Alligator eating artichokes on a ant hill,
     watching
     Beverly Bear floating on a cloud over there,
     which developed a leak,
  ...

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This poem was written for my friend Sonya Mako Wong



Kung Fu Chop Suey

On my twenty-fifth birthday off to China's best travelled I went
So very unfruitful and unaware I enormously lost all my money thus spent,
Then...

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Pit bulls, love, heart, Tia, Tonya, Mo, Louisiana,
Parolees, crime, anger, judgemental, up and downs, life.
You may know what I'm talking about or not,  but a place called Villalobos pit bull rescue knows who they...

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The nineteen-ninety-four Olympic games
were held in Norway that specific year;
the thing that I remember, shame of shames...
two women athletes made the news...oh, dear.

Named Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan,
great figure skaters, talented, well-known,
made history when jealousy began,
and...

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To our Dear Tonya, its been six years since you left us today,
and yet as time passes these are just a few things we wanted to say.

You always inspired all who you touched, even if...

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Depression leaves me all alone.
All enjoyment in my life, now gone.
Closing the doors, pulling down the blinds.
Not understanding why life is so unkind.
Avoiding everyone, pushing their love aside.
Not allowing anyone close in which I could...

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Santa's reindeer were ready for Christmas,
but then Rudolph developed some stiffness.
They asked his son Robbie
to do the job and he
agreed, which was most serendipitous.

Veronica and her friend Monica
joined loved ones to celebrate Hanukkah.
They sang songs...

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Starring into empty eyes of a person with no soul.
Sadness has settled in as misery has took control.
Clueless emotions, once clearly known.
A hopeless hollow figure is all that is now shown.
Bitterness, lonileness, misery and despair.
Eyes...

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