Long Whacko Poems

Justin Case - the weirdest guy in the all of Buxton county - did a lot o’ crazy things that most would never try,
And even weirder - just before he’d do the things he did...

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The day my life went ape ‘chit’ in no more than three-hundred words

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And pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis works wonders

When I am asked to write a poem that is either precise or reductionist


Thus I report from my personal...

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Here we are again
still
remembering our fair share of mutually invested identity,
where dreams swim to fuse together,
DNA with RNA eco-wombs written across the heart of all four sacred seasons
of star song's tidally ebb and flowing moon...

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The day my life changed when I was seventeen,                          ...

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The day my life went bizacko,
I had me a brush with “big C”
“No biggie; just radiation,” they said,
“after lumpectomy.”

“No, wait,” said the surgeon,“Your cancer’s genetic!
Let’s have you do chemo too.”
A doctor friend wiser said that...

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The day my life went tipsy, weak-kneed and rosy, I met a boyish-man. He had a sidewinder-‘stache and I suddenly fell for a hairy man. Tickled lips like those propose suddenly to a starry-eyed sailor...

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The Day My Life Went Crazy with Lowdown Earthly Blues

The day my life went crazy - traffic such a mess;
Puppy ate my brand new shoes - cleaners lost my favorite vest;
My report so late –...

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The day my life went whacko, I woke up bumfuzzled.
To this day, I can’t tell you why I was so puzzled.
First I put instant oatmeal in my coffee maker;
I made sure I selected my favorite,...

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The day my life changed came in the summer of'93,
and henceforth, I was never to be the same.
Before then, you could always find me in the fast lane.
Not just an epiphany, but fresh light for...

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The day my life went 'hatter' mad
          When carnage of the saddest sad
             ...

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The day my life went all topsy turvy,
Was day I had an affair with a beauty,
Ah, Blue eyes are a weakness of mine,
And Christmas party was full of wine!

That day started like any other day,
work...

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He couldn’t fit his shopping cart
And suitcase through the door
And screamed at the conductor
(Quite a challenge to ignore).

Once seated, he spread out and then
Removed his socks and shoes.
Assessing just how nuts he was,
This added to...

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I woke up today from a long ugly nap that was real
was in a horrible dentist chair, same old  ridiculous feel….
whacko of a dentist had taken extra-long potty break
irritating me for I had one...

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I woke up today from a long ugly nap that was real
was in a horrible dentist chair, same old  ridiculous feel….
whacko of a dentist had taken extra-long potty break
irritating me for I had one...

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The day my life went so crazy
Was when I laid eyes on Daisy
She was an old sow
Who mooed like a cow
And drove all farmhands crazy

We tried to put her in a field
But sadly that pig...

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The day my life went dead
As my tears flowed for my husband  
A bond from the heavens on the flight of a dove
Unconditional love
Perceived and felt first in my heart
~
Sickness
~
Has taken away  
With...

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The day my life changed in one moment 
 just one cursed moment, time betrayed  
 An injury they said would now never heal 
 a quadriplegic ,waist down you're dead.
 vibrant colors blurred...

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The John Player Special comin’ down the line,
I cough and I retch like a veteran miner;
a nicotine fix clawin’ into my spine,
my lungs turnin’ black like a napalmed vagina.
A Number Six filter tipped dream of...

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Living as a child growing up
in the countryside walk to school
then got a bicycle to save my feet
daily 3 miles even in winter not cool

I always played my own game
at my back called the homie...

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The day my life went haywire
I saw the storm clouds rush 
and cluster from nowhere.
The skeleton of the sunny sky 
tumbled down instantly devastated
in the debris of despair,
where the wounded gazelle lost its way,
for it...

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I met my life partner 11 years ago
Initially I thought him to be a whacko
The first time I saw him
He was never a part of my whim
I went out with him in the night
Had to...

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