Long Upholstery Poems

“Pictures could not be accessories to the story – evidence – they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame”. Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters

“There...

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Bygone Days
Written: By Tom Wright
4/3/2007

Remember the slogan
 “Haskell is moving, are you pushing?

The railroad depot stands no more
In the spot it occupied for so long.
Instead in it’s space, a Homeland store,
But in my memory it...

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"Holy Humor"    Posted 1 Mar 2021

if you need an ark to save two of each animal      i Noah guy

creating Eve was the first known example  ...

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I am not sure where I was born or even when,
     Many grand places I have called home;
Now, I am one of many in a second hand store,
   ...

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Jealous, Jealous, Jealous

The swiftness of the Vessa just killed me, 
That speed and the grandeur of the seat, 
The frame’s shine and the four wheels free, 
The maroon leather upholstery neat. 

The diagonal pattern on...

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When I step inside your twisted reality ...
this is what my spiritual eyes see,
your soul revealed in it's totality
A scaly skin of self-serving morality ...
you always ask, what's in it for me,
what can you do...

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Swaying and shuffling to the bathroom,
		once again,
			I hoped this time that I’d summon the wherewithal 
		to finally start my Saturday.
  	But my visit was bookended by
		my usual return to bed.
The previous night’s tequila and...

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Written: December 11, 2024, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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A sleeping beast 
Or winged messenger from God 
Lays its quicksand of the truth
And I am spat like a petal from some nameless bloody heart
A constant question of the proof

I scratch in complacent deals
With my...

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We are happy about the music,
a Mozart serenade that is not too dangerously deep.
Somewhere in the night
angels are falling off their nightmares,
black horse escaping on an ebbing tide.

Mozart is a skinny youth, his pink bubble...

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Hello madam, and welcome to our place of business.
Is there any way that I can be of assistance?
We have a huge selection of cars both used and new.
Chances are we have the right one on...

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Crying
Fix the damn house
She done
Paid to me
Ain’t gonna happen
When rent come?
Please don’t drag the pope across the
Carpet irish boy

Nana
He lying

Born military
Gonna die military?
Email a senator
Rejected by electricity
Suffer disgust
While Americans die
In poverty
Free speech from there
Doesn’t eclipse
Guarantee...

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My dad loved big cars and had a dark green Ford LTD,
it was a giant beast of a car with a huge lazy engine;
we called it, "the house on wheels," and gosh it was smooth,
like...

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The Planet appeared behind the upholstery. 
Layers of ambiguous crises lie behind. 
Attractive slurs were mixed in with flowing clarity. 
A new dawn has been anticipated by humankind. 

The range of options given to humanity...

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This in reference to the famous poem of William Davies ,"Leisure ": What is this life if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare...




Endless wait, a lonely window pane 
in a...

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Cats Should Be Exterminated

By Elton Camp

I am making a call for action long overdue
For there is an important task we need to do
They have crept into our lives with little note
Now it is the time...

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Ruminating over a golden era gone by and over possessiveness filled me with nostalgia
Ultimate luxury of vying for a car as well as owning a chauffeur driven one was
Sadly for the migrated rulers who ruled...

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Dear car repair man received your bill of Friday last
Need I say when I read the sum it really made me gasp

The price of parts and hoses made up less than half
While the labour that...

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The carpet was worn -  
The pattern thin in some places,
But it was a “good” rug,
A real original Oriental.
We had others, too, and a
Silver tea service, slightly tarnished, 
(Sterling, of course)
On the mahogany sideboard.
The...

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Your thumb points to Heaven
From the side of a service station
Near a highway drenched in traffic
Where the last passing car splashed a wave
Across your effortlessly persistent smile,
And somehow you appreciate the shower
With an understanding for...

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Low void on the high end
Teared fists in midst of Tears of mist 
Tarried sand on the solo voyage twist 
Of the cause, and still the reason
Between the terrain and the everlasting rains
An unfolded mind...

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Home from a chemo session, uncle lights up
a cigarette and collapses
to the slick plastic that covers your chaise
lounge, auntie. He thumps the upholstery
with his legs and elbows for blood
to circulate again. A flake

drifts. Dehydrated lips,...

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A photon checked into a hotel,
a rather interesting sight.
It was asked "Do you have luggage?"
It said, "No, I'm travelling light."

When I'm at home I like to read books,
and relax in my dressing gown.
I'm reading a...

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Burn the rug,
burn the house down
Swing on the chandelier,
like a monkey thug
Wobble around the room,
like a drunken clown

Dance with the devil,
go let his liquid fire ways lighten your sorrow
Night time reverie daze ...
fermented guarantee to...

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Here's a good bit of news,
that I just discovered!
A guy fell into an upholstery machine,
but is now fully "recovered"!

This is more useless info,
I came across a week ago!
Atheism, is a "Non-Prophet organization"!
Just in case you...

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