Long Uppercut Poems

Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...

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Us kids on the scrap heap estate, we were never going anywhere
poverty deprivation criminal activity was here to stay
Social Services, poor bastards, had no idea what to do
no, no one had a blasted clue
then, some...

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EXCERPT (Approximately 30% of Poem)
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I don’t deserve
This kind of punch to my pride
You used your best left hook, uppercut and jab to my ego
Here desperately griping the corner of the ring
Unable to believe the idea
That he ever felt that...

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around 2:30 in the AM one morning in the middle of

the midwest

upon leaving his office after studying for exams up until the

last moment

he decided to take an alternate route when walking back to his apartment---

a...

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To claim more imperialist Russian land. 
An invasion of a neighbor was planned. 
Unbacked slander was said about them. 
Creating for the world a major problem. 
Putin claimed they were a pro-Nazi harbor. 
But the...

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On the ring, there's this championship match
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songcatcher in the street and i see you walking by
(oh how i wish that i could talk to you)
i suddenly have a taste for a fresh bagel and hot cocoa
(oh how i wish i could...

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rudiments of the day progress like every other
matches burning 1 by 1 so quick 
one can lose count &
if the practice is to tally up the path to death
step by step by step
(as if the...

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So this is Fremont, California
Circa nineteen sixty-nine,
Nice and bit of a tight-knit
Neighborhood, that is fine.

I am a honey tanned Hawaiian
In a nearly all white community,
With the only swimming pool
Thinks there is another opportunity.

Learned later that...

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Yes mom I'll be fine
Don't worry dad I got the combo down
I grab my gloves and head to the ring
Dont forget to cheer loud ok?

My match is next
It's do or die
I wisk away a bead...

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Ain't  An Ornery Yahoo
 
Old widow lady of ninety-two
Lives by herself with nothing else to do
Except sit in her chair next to the window 
And stare out for hours with dreams of her past...

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BOXER

The late October day
marked the last of the tragic
encounters framed by the ropes
he preferred to the streets where a 
journeyman boxer needs more than
taped hands for the troubles he sees

There had been no title shot,...

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Dogpaddling the Styx

Dogpaddling cross the Styx
To be with old Tom Mix
But Charon was there 
Demanding he be paid
So an uppercut a bit
 sorta laid back the twit
the deal was made
We reached the foreign shore

Side stepping...

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11/22/16


Got to get that cheese pronto

Those that talked guano

Got hit with an uppercut combo

mano a mano


I had a dog named Bronco

And landlords named Helga and Poncho


Knew this lady that lived in a condo

And worked at...

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He steps into the ring pristine
From thousands of hours training
Featuring a sleek, lightning speed to match
Dynamic power punches and delivery

But all that is a secret
The opponent comes in unknowing
Facing off to determine 
The nature of...

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'Ding-Ding-Ding'

Round 1
Your knees became weak
Learning that your opponent was The Great Enah;
The one to never lose a match.
The one to tear you apart from the inside,
with a double right hook to a left
uppercut combo,
and finally...

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Old mean widow lady of ninety-two

lives by herself with nothing else to do

Hunkers in her chair next to the window

stares out for hours with dreams of her bingo


She is labeled mentally unstable

Plays solitary on the...

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Damn kangaroo stole my hat 
As I was beating him, with a baseball bat, 
Will it ever end? The thief never stops 
He got up and kicked me in the chops. 

I pulled on his...

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Nostrilvartu :)

Old Nostra took a swallow dive
bounced off the river bloody Clyde
a shark spat him out n then
to the bloodbank  suck it in again

got so filled with pink he'd have to hide
a wheelie bin...

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A moment never fades or is far behind. 
An ex of yesterdays playback in reverse.  
When the feelings hit, they'll knock you down. 
You allow it and take the fall. 
Relentless jabs of the...

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He was tough, he’d been raised to be big, fit and strong, 
To hide any hurt, pain or fear.
He’d prepared for this fight, bottling his feelings, 
Living an unemotional atmosphere. 

Then the time had arrived,...

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Look at him.
Despecable human being.
I just wish i could,
beat him,
just for breathin'

Lying his way through, life,
like a boxer bobbin' and weavin'

I just wanna beat him for decievin'
like a politician running for office,
buildin' up our hopes,
pretendin'...

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In today's society everyone is operating
on a short fuse,
It seems as if no one has time to spend
on ideas they do not comprehend,
Most people are drunk with power,
and receive satisfaction from seeing
others cower,
Points of views...

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That was quite a scene at the state senate, alright, 
when a lawmaker-turned-thug went out for a fight,
hitting a fellow lawmaker on the side of the head,
though no power in his punch, not requiring Band...

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