Long Underpinnings Poems

To Crush Mar a Lago Estate, and lower the Economic debt ceiling...

Now that DACA docked amidst 
marshy tidal outskirts of Poker flats 
(readied to be sunk) off shore 
(beach combing divers – ectoplasmic flotsam 
glorying...

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blue planet water
blue sky just scattered sunbeams
dusk's red, unbent light


Brian Johnston
July 28,2014

Poet's Notes: 
Isn't it great? Three wonders of nature explained in 17 words. It is so much fun 
sharing my love of Physics with...

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I comport myself with quiet pridefulness,
plus intellectual whimsy
aware that "FAKE" pretentiousness,
could be mistaken foreign egotistical vitae
furthering, feathering and figuratively
undermining jestingly, 

poetically, and zealously
oozing, gushing, bubbling over
with faux snobbish suave re:
pulse sieve literary fatuous
haughtiness, and ludicrous...

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Love’s Ebb and Tide
             by Odin Roark

One never picks a tide’s movement
Forces outside one’s mere wishes
Answer to only that which stays
Beneath the surface...

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poetically, and zealously
oozing, gushing, bubbling over
with faux snobbish suave re:
pulse sieve literary fatuous
haughtiness, and ludicrous narcissistic pre
ning all the while chuckling to me

self, and indifferent if
some anonymous browser
with Dutchman's breeches rolled up
upon cresting wave over...

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Basic geometry’s based on four axioms,
Something that many kids study in school,
But a fifth axiom’s needed to prove it all,
This is where things start in getting real cool.

Really this axiom sounds very theorem like
Many have...

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Who would guess my eagerness
to check in daily on the Soup,
and see what poem is on my screen
The warm embrace, that travels space
And brings me happy hours
There is power in the love that pours
From this...

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A walking cradle
A scaffold
Just support

Underpinnings are cushions of support.
We exacerbate to defeat negative thoughts.
We want success because this soothes our words.

Impaired from those that know how to hinder when moving forward, is a liaison to...

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of our civilization is genetically controlled.
Our two dominate instinctual drives, self preservation and procreation are reflected in our global structure. Our preoccupation with sex and violence, reflected in our songs, our books, our music, everything....

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I see what's underneath ladies' skirts; their plump underpinnings and roundness.

I feel shoes scrape across my surface, the feel of a broom and the bold suck of a vacuum

Each piece of me becomes a bit...

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avec
breviloquent
moments 
revealing the
underpinnings of
a latent
sociopath 
(just take a bit longer
to look right in their
eyes),
muttering in the most 
amicable way that can 
be mustered,
the polite offer up
their assessment of
you---
“you are looking good!”
“have you lost weight?”
“so happy...

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The candles lit in starry night moon tryst
Upon the skyline tabletop tonight.

The wolfish howl bids dusk a lusty kiss.
The eyes aurora borealis green.

The tangerine and blackened bat duet —
The blend surrenders to the sinking ship.
Their...

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