Long Unclog Poems

About Bill Posters and Bill Greenwell

Words not to use in poems

In 1993, I (Bill Greenwell) went on a three-day workshop with the poet Peter Sansom, who co-edits The North, and runs the Smith/Doorstop imprint. He’s...

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100% Natural psyllium husk delivered solid ecstasy

As of late - I could not but barely move
mine whole body felt
analogous to sluggish mollusk
frequent constipation found yours truly
doubled over in gastrointestinal agony

as if elephant or red (livid...

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THE CLICHE SUBJECT MATTER
I tried to study you best way I could without weighing my infatuation
And before I knew it I was knee deep in a classless obsession
I added you to my thinking pattern, all...

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Every day you awake you need to give thanks, I am the past
and the present; You are the potential.
I am the essential.
You are the future; I am the now!
I am the reality in that order...

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No wisdom more canny than the folksome pantun’s peasant proverbials
            Wake! Monde Malais! Wake and note no Sultan whirls as a Sufi
  ...

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I got this bloody rotten cold that had me coughing all night long.
I got no sleep and so the language, I heard was fairly strong.
My wife was kept awake as well, and she hasn’t got...

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gluteus maximus left and right half moon cheek

re: byte size buttock attached via usb 
   
(uniform firm behind) to this freak

with bowel movement 
   
incontinence + gas filled gut evoking contortionist...

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gluteus maximus left and right half moon cheek
   re: byte size buttock 
attached via usb (uniform firm behind) to this freak
   with bowel movement incontinence + gas filled gut
evoking contortionist frown...

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gluteus maximus left and right half moon cheek
   re: byte size buttock 
attached via usb (uniform firm behind) to this freak
   with bowel movement incontinence + gas filled gut
evoking contortionist frown...

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Joe The Plumber announced he was runnin' fer Congress the other day!
Congratulations, Joe!  You the man!  Fer you I shout, "Hooray!"
Tell 'em like it is as you did with Obama - show 'em...

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Numbness and blindness
Just floating along through
The blanket of kindness 
With a sky that is not blue,
But white with a harsh hue,
That can blind if inspected
So don’t look too close.
But all is expected 
On morphine of...

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Since you've been gone, I've been so sad 
The silence within these four walls is driving me mad 
No smell of burnt toast or overcooked eggs in the air 
Don't have to unclog the shower...

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I feel like hail... torrential rains and spiral winds
From the eye of the storm pushing and pulling
With the violent rush of a bellowing locomotive,
My only warning, as I flood fields and streets with billows
And uproot...

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Yours is a horrendous bother
I decode one side, you obfuscate another!
I twist and turn, twist and turn again
Fingers engrossed around your parts, another twist
extirpates the other side! My enthusiasm refuses to wane.
I warp your shifting...

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Yours is a horrendous bother

I decode one side, you obfuscate another!

I twist and turn, twist and turn again

fingers engrossed around your parts, another twist

extirpates the other side! My enthusiasm refuses to wane.

I warp your shifting...

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A Cry From a Server  

We stand on our feet for 12 hours for you. 
We provide you with delicious sustenance. 
We support your industry and innovation at the cost of our physical health....

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There is so little space I could give in my skies, 
Every moon has left a whole cluster of clouds full of lies, 
I cannot unclog a product polluted in disguise, 
Don’t ask me to...

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If you know what you're sad about
What you're angry and mad about
     Be a bit of a gadabout
     Find something to be glad about

You dwell on the...

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"WITHER/Lyrics III- Dream Theater" poetry contest entry.
 
Don’t rock the boat, they said
Over and over and again and again
“Don’t rock,” can infect the brain
Unclog my head: harvest the grain

O, we need to rock before the...

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I bring him home in happiness
Not expecting your reply
For behind your false smile
Lies a thick prejudice eye

Starring down the man before you
Dressed in charcoal skin
Too ice cold in stubborness
To see the man I love within

I...

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A cough and a sneeze
another tissue please
Nose runny throat sore
fatigue and feeling wore
Slight fever lost appetite
wanting it to end to feel right.

Vicks rub on the chest
a little under and in the nose
Wool socks upon the...

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every bright future is a wind whisper,
a caress of the ray,
every touch in the palm is a getaway for  flying words,
each word  bears a deceive on its back,
a life spent in thought, not...

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Old cotton knee-Lenths
smell; an old book of poetry smell,
Unseen socks
between the matrass and the ground floor
of nowhere,
where discarded apparel through the ages,
molders unread.

Daily we wash the stains off
our words,
once in a while
we recover them from
a...

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Change defines range
Life feels that strange


Book the next look
Charm works the crook


Style a fine smile
Be above guile


Hear echoes here
Discern clear cheer


Joy comes to fill
Live fond goodwill 


Trust truth to hurt
Unclog life's dirt


Time after time
Echoes and...

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We can be stuck together as one,
and I will never need a soldering gun.
My love for you comes in a steady flow.
Right through all the pipes it will go.
You won’t have a backed-up cess pool...

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