Long Ymca Poems

Food glorious food

Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gunning corporeal essence christened Matthew Scott Harris...

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I remember feeling so empty the abuse had escalated after four hurricanes witnessing a murder horrific traumatic brain injury I was now uprooted leaving my beautiful home in Fort Myers Florida at the behest of...

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I don't see you.
I've been searching my whole life,
But still, I don't see you.

When I was a wee lad
I looked for you ...
My mother's smile,
My father's toil,
My brother's refuge,
My sister's amity ...
I didn't see you.

Thanksgiving,...

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The Job

I got a plane to catch in the morning.  8:15 AM out of Austin, destination Orange County, CA.  Never cared much for California and I don’t think anything about this trip is...

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I still have that letter somewhere.
You made me promise to not tell anyone you wrote it.
So I kept that promise,
I kept it for thirty years.
I’m kinda thinking it’s long enough.

Why was I attracted to you?
It...

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The Antics Of A Yoyo Thief

Potential life of as juvenile delinquent
(ala bam mean future streetwise thug)
stopped dead in the tracks – manacles
the above two lines hopefully gives hint
nearly changing changing life of one boy
an undersized...

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NINETEEN FORTY TWO
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


As a young man in Jersey I wanted to be a cop
One sunday morning that dream came to a stop
Our nation had been a victim of a vicious attack
By an aggressive...

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Alms For The Poor

~~~~~~ The Clever Beggar ~~~~~~

The not so old beggar stood 
before me,with outstretched 
arms and a sadden stare
He ask me for sixty-five cent

He was working this side of the street
I started to...

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Giving the answer "I don't know"
is just as bad as telling a man
hes going to die,
Do you want me to lose my pride,
make me feel like a joke
just because
you don't take us seriously?
Do you want...

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Why do you use sex as a control weapon?
You pretend to not know that we need it.
The monster must be alleviated, released. 
We get sex when we get a promotion, 
or our birthday or when...

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(07/20/11)

So much bad news- about children being abused.
What kind of thoughts can go thru a molesters mind
Don’t they know they’ll be caught with time.

Do you know how many children have run away
Because in their house...

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Oh love of mine what can you do,
When day finds loved one soon to die,
Poor taste the joke, self-serving tears,
What gain is there when you deny?

And what exactly would you want
If suddenly the roles could...

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I was on path when I came to a fork in the tongue
And with a simple sinful flick I was flung.
Onto the path that the world traveled.
Trekking on only to see their world unraveled.
But I...

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(not really, but just wanted
to get your attention.)

Thus "NOT FAKE," but
poetic quasi true anecdote
infused fictionalized
by this ole goat
with prevarication
to enliven of no note
characteristic, and certainly
not worth quote

ting - for any future
reference material, imp poet
tent to...

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Alright all you pigeon chests
Came the sound of thunder from the open door
As Big Bad Bart replaced the space
Giant mountain man of lore

Making his way into the bar
Sweeping Nancy boys out of his way
Stepping up...

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Traveling through the Valley in my old car
Passing by the rubble that was Saint Ann's
Wondering what is happening to the valley
No more growth, I guess God had other plans
An empty lot where Saint Mary's school...

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As a child from Germany I learned to live in a foreign country,
Canada became my home with my parents and relatives.

As a child  from Germany I learned to speak a foreign language English,
All the...

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In a skool with 1600 kids and nine grades and 30 class rooms. Odds are that thair 

Were 11 trans kids per grade . And since thair was only 1 mtf kid in my grade...

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ON TURNING FIFTY

As my cousin turned fifty there was talk of AARP.

Two years behind Danny, I ask the million dollar question:

“What is AARP?” – “Oh you’ll find out,” my uncle laughs.

~

Fifty is the turning point...

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NCAA
I hear that this year there will be a Ivy League in the NCAA Basketball League
And just when I was about to go Ivy
When I was high school I could not decided to give up...

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It's minus thirty-five outside 
that is with the wind chill, 
there's an old man at the park 
who is feeling rather ill. 

He sits upon a park bench 
as he has nowhere to go, 
he...

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(Mickey D's, Winter Haven FL)

Fanciest McD's you ever saw!
Life sized statues caught in motion,  
Marilyn, her skirts flying, Elvis, 
thrusting out his guitar in a musical
orgasm, both Blues Brothers in
black suits, ties awry --a...

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By Elton Camp

Old Bubba had spent his life in the hills
Plain food and drink from whiskey stills

So to the big city he decided he’d go
For about other things he’d like to know

He spent the night...

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A Redneck’s First Bagel

By Elton Camp

Old Bubba had spent his life in the hills
Plain food and drink from whiskey stills

So to the big city he decided he’d go 
For about other things he’d like to...

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If you know your history you know that the black achiever is one, 

Step down from the NAACP for youth student in high school,

My mom said now a days they are doing remarkable things,

At the...

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