Manikins Poems - Poems about Manikins

...My mind is tribal, I hunt in the mud and slurry, I track the stars in a wooden chariot made from the ribs of a blood-clan crib. My thoughts are armored, yet as articulated as any youthful flesh......

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...the homeless people alive in cracks we avoid. each displays no grace nor glory. We turn our backs, are so annoyed. Worn overcoats over scrim pajamas, angled hair and leather-ed skin, bags an......

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...So many manikins In the store windows Dressed in fashion clothes What does happen at night? When no one is around? I ponder this question Do they come to life? Walking on the floors? Hav......

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...Green was the theme, mainly green and blue then came you in your floral dance and open mouths, red insect-eating lips. snaky tongues big, bold, and subjectively pretty, objectively fleshy, lush......

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...In the jumbled backyard of mind they arrive in dark cowls, gather behind an inverse eye, wait there for the eyes themselves to flip those images over into a word chewing anger. Manikins move ......

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...(Nevada Test Site 1951) The house is ply-struts not even particleboard. Mom is cardboard, dad and my little sister are manikins, Older brother is a painted figure of a younger brother’s ima......

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...Swans row the sky just feet above the copper water. Gulls twist their necks to watch a lone sailor on the prow of a sludge-decked dredger. On the slate thatched gambrels of a lesser known ro......

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...Can you hear the hypnotic hum of the production line? Education Rehabilitation factories rolling out images of humans made of plastic and wood. Minds are erased of parental guidance. Memory banks ......

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...Do I wake or dream? Another one – Life is a bowl of cherries. One more – Not with a whimper, but with a bloody big bomb. The house is ply-struts and particle composite. Mum is cardboard, bu......

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...Valued clients, we have listened, and have taken on-board your concerns and suggestions. From now on, the display manikins will be of a deep puce green color so as not to marginalize any et......

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...After we met I thought we really had something, Really hit it off. It wasn’t the words we spoke, The easy fluorescent trail they made. Maybe it was the Japanese lantern Glowing over your bare s......

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...there are places and people in America that are scared to death of looking old and growing older where a new wrinkle or two when found is a terrible scary thing a birthday is not celebrated but......

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...There were images the grey man could not see Did not want to see, in all probability Walking by the glass doors and windows of modern stores No warmth of being within their cold crisp alloy fra......

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...He was sitting alone in the corner In a little cafe at the painting of Monet And was talking to imaginary friend About thinness opaqueness fear Sensation of heat cold anger despair Cruelty he c......

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...there are places and people in America that are scared to death of looking old and growing older where a new wrinkle or two when found is a terrible scary thing a birthday is not celebrated but ......

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