Long Vhs Poems

As I empty a bag and look over the donations in it
I think, “Geezus why; not even I would willingly take any of this!
If I didn’t work here taking donations, I’d throw it all in...

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Nostalgic Nights.
The smell of gas in the vintage moped I drove an hour to buy, 
Driving down that small-town street at night,
Lit by the dim bike light on that streetlight-less street.
Mixing gas with oil and...

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It’s another day, yes, another day
Another day to watch my cronies wandering around
meandering around aimlessly, flippantly like
they have no care…no care in the world
and just like that…bludgeoned by a badly worn cowboy boot!
Guts all over!

One...

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“Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.” - Woody Allen

When I was much younger, previous decades seemed so distant, so far away. To me these older and impossible decades existed only...

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I grew up in Bath in the nineteen nineties
wearing short shorts over tighty whities,
while Bath were champions of English Rugby,
a beautiful city farfetched from ugly.

We played on Stilts and had Yo-Yo's,
skateboards with logo's,  
Tamagotchi's,...

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We’ve all been young dumb 
and unaware so has everyone, 
we too were the first generation 
growing up with tech others hadn’t 

I was born last century so to kids I’m old 
Born the same...

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Your paradigm's a relic, a plea from data's cemetery,
While I sculpt luminaries on screens, a sable sea.
"Company loyalty," a myth, spun in your reverie,
But AI forges kingdoms, in ephemeral memory.
Survival's a mosaic, the gig life...

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The random swaying of the truck on broken roads roused me from my slumber. The same random swaying that had pushed me past the threshold of sleep. There were snow clad mountains till the eyes...

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This is a three part puzzle, with a bonus question- each starting at 10 points, and, 
as before, each less one point starting on the second day (starting on Weds. 
10/17, at noon, or as...

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There I was,
In a big store, 
Picking up some VHS tapes,
Have thousands,
Need more...

I espied,
A curious thing,
A "Head Cleaner"
The curiousity bell,
Did ring

Well, I'll be damned,
Now I've seen it all,
I grabbed one fast,
Bought and exited the mall

I...

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Long Island, Oh How You Make Me Suffer,

9/20/12

By: Sami LaRose

I need to get out of this town, to get out and about

 To leave this drought of a town that is filled with so much...

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Each day that I get up and greet the new dawn
Posing at the mirror,first..to see what changes have been going on
My eyes cannot look at what lies before me
55'waist on a 5ft 7 frame
These hands...

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Hammers, Slammers, Polly Pockets, My Little Pony, and Pogs
Back when my big sister collected frogs
Hello Kitty, Kerokeroppi, Badtz Maru
I'm bringing the 80's back to you
American Dolls, Cabbage Patch Kids, Kareoke Machines
These were the 80's toys...

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I’m jEalous of the wind.

The wind who flows ever freely through my curtains,
And escapes into the night sky almost twice as quick
Somehow without making a scene or causing a burden,
Disappearing faster than the light on...

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One moment there was a time  

When things had to be done on a dime  

I will never decline  

A VHS treasure find  

If you get over the hypocrite's hatred of...

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I remember watching that movie 
with you the year we separated

It was just released on VHS  
and for some God Forsaken reason

we rented it together 
on Christmas Eve at your place

You had come upon...

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Saturday garage sale- moving to an old heritage apartment,
Years of collecting, but lots must go, even things of contentment.

Two china cabinets, one from Mom, one Grandma, they bring a smile,
Perhaps, I can somehow keep them...

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ake me back to the 80s,
with top gun all the rage.
with me VHS and Betamax,
and Ceefax holiday page. 

Keith had is hand up Orville,
the Rubix cube was fun.
Samantha had her baps out,
on the third page...

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1971 Amtrak service be gone 
On October 1st Walt Disney world  officially opens 
We all really love them candy treats
Really want them chocolate candies Willy Wonka was Gene Wilder
Relative reality
 1972 It was arrived...

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look at me
water shoes on
beach chair buried in the sand
feeling like an overtly energetic six year old again
acting all shy as she grabs my hand as the water freezes our feet unexpectedly

remembering the loneliness
cable off
vhs...

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Moving, so years of collecting must go today
even things, that...

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Her name came from her native heritage from the Navajo Tribe
I got this story because I offered her a bribe
She works at McDonald's as a shift leader
Her boyfriend, dropped out of school after the 6th...

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I recall writing checks in my spidery crawl.
The TV then was a humming spaceship
with glowing innards that deep-scanned 
all who glued their flickering, bug-eyed minds to it;
it abducted whole families at a time.
That same television
materialized...

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Diaries left open and letters framed,
chronological ink waving from a horizon, gone.
Clothes hung to recreate a wedding, a dance, a touch – 
enclosed in glass cases to trap the scent inside.

There’s a recording of his...

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Many years after leaving London
I return to the city 
it is still dreaming of better days.

I am burdened with landscaped memories,
recordings taken with out-of-date electronics;
one is a Betamax video player,
the other by a VHS machine,...

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