Long Wrack Poems

Within my quasi moat toad lily padded immediate environs

Meaning the corporeal complex edifice
housing these lovely bones, 
where linkedin logorrhea ably
strives to break out 
in meaningless song 
yobble hum hum diddle dee dee
and dance courtesy 
an...

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The General Blues
c.1984-5

Again and again searching through grains of sand
hoping to find that certain elixir,
recovering lost bottle caps, 
when the silicon appears, i lose it..
To the ones who don't want or need it,
 I feel...

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Start
With the common thread that ties this altogether but I 
Stop
In my tracks when I have no idea what that means so I 
Start
With the basics, wrack my brain for the information to feed my...

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The following fictitious scenario I evoke

Analogous to fire breathing 
puffed up imaginary dragon
(in a land called Honah Lee)
ye might rightly think
what the deuce
haunting spectre ace of spades 
goodfella aiming to be a poet all about,
meaning...

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The typewriters tap,
with a rat-a-tat-tat,
like a fourth estate rap
to provide us the pap
(that serves as a snack with a rat-a-tat-tat)
in a newspaper scrap
crammed with meaningless crap
from the editor's yap
(spewing flimflamy flak, booming rat-a-tat-tat)
after gashing a...

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Do you always have ready excuse
In your pocket for times that life throws you a curve?
What if someone you love ups and dies?
Does it matter at all if they took their own life
Suddenly they’re not...

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Mine gerund farming, tilling, and harvesting illogical weltanschauung

Twas accursed destiny
since birth (maybe coded in
deoxyribonucleic acid  
since time immemorial) alas and alack
nascent emasculation abominable barrack
emergent deus ex machina,
one common Joe biden his time
for no particular
rhyme...

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Preface:
Earlier today May 28th, 2021,
the 12-member jury unanimously
found Cristhian Bahena Rivera guilty
of first-degree murder in brutal stabbing death
sentenced to life in prison 
without the possibility of parole
of Mollie Tibbetts remembered as then friendly
20-year-old who was...

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...We sat at the bar, and the beer was cold,
much better than any that I had drunk,
compared to this, all of Earth’s beer was junk,
and up here it seemed things weren’t bought or sold,
“Money ain’t...

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I don't  believe this­ how could it be?
The love of my life ­just walked out on me
Now is when the hear­tbreak comes to call
Unbelievably In an i­nstant I just lost it­ All

Unsure whether to scr­eam...

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And thus I wake from my 30 month slumber
Fuzzy headed and cotton-mouthed
As pristinely damaged as before my rest
When my Reaper drew our curtains closed

Living life in a trance isn't new to me
I don't think I've...

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Another Senseless Killing...

IOWA CITY, Iowa
     (killingly, jarringly inexplicable,
     horribly, gruesomely, and forlornly),
     the found exhumed decayed corpse
     belonging to...

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Still reeling (albeit figuratively) after amidst realization...
keys to apartment and 2009 Hyundai Sonata went missing

Yesterday August tenth year
two thousand and twenty one,
I experienced blitzkrieg of explosive panic
shattering an ordinarily calm veneer
me (a doubting Thomas) resorting...

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Brainstorming (For Me) Generates "Writer's Block"

Lesson obstruction,
     but more so an over
     whelming flood of ideas
     makes dredging, conceiving
than giving birth
to an amenable...

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I still recall those two large probing eyes 
Framed on somewhat lean-looking oval face 
That had failed to get fair feedback from me, 
Me, a shy guy in matters feminine 
In a temple of reading...

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Twas accursed destiny
     since birth alack
nascent emasculation abominable barrack
emergent deus ex machina,

     viz zit ting older sibling counterattack
thirteen plus chronological gap
    eldest sister struck...

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A Different Thought About the 
Penn State Scandal

By Elton Camp

The deplorable scandal at Penn State 
Threatens to bring unreasonable hate
A graduate STUDENT some now condemn
With even death threats against him

Because he saw a child under...

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Far away in a distant land
Where nobody knew my name
I carved out a throne of ice
And buried myself in the womb of winter

The Reaper held my hand
And the other held piles of pills
I shakily held...

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My heart held a funeral today
The love I had for you in decay...
I enshrouded myself in black
While sobs my weak body wrack
My face swathed in filmy lace
So others the tears could not trace
The requiem played...

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Though psyche sundered and cleft,
sans like Earth bereft of moon
with wrack and ruin
please don't ask how I am doin,
especially after natural automotive
wear and tear
found anguish brew'n,
no matter yours truly know win,

there haint no benefit in...

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I cried for you, left broken and sullen,
I waited for you to breathe
And then I snatched your breath away;
Never explaining my actions

I live for this, this utopian existence,
I'm so indisposed, laughing at my own reflection
The...

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It was my choice, none ever forced, can't regret;
I've chosen this glamorous life, can't turn back.
Guess paying price of my choice, I'm under threat;
They don't know high-end brands, fancy parties wrack
me from inside but it...

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Does your heart make a sound when it is breaking?
Can you hear with your ears the sound it is making?
Does it sound like a train when it is crashing?
Or more like it hitting the water...

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Below this dome
The earthy place 
Lies a stone lighthouse 
Sturdy standing in place
Across the waters it does face 
Brought to birth at 1810
 
She’s been there for years 
As fishermen left their piers  
Guiding...

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I slipped through the side gate
Into Paradise, the sun shone
And my Shadow Side slipped 
on a golden cobblestone

'What are we doing here
My Shadow asked
I've spent our life planning
Our home in Hell'

'Why won't you cooperate
You know...

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