The Hospital Cat
...The surgeon
had successfully removed his libido
and fed it to the hospital cat.
Corridors became whispering tubes
for I.V. drip pushing wanderers,
their pale bottoms peering out
like beluga w...
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Categories:
mauled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Pooh and Piglet
...Pak Piglet slowly sidled up to Pooh
To whisper: just I’m making sure of you,
He took his friend’s front paw
In hand with glee and awe--
A selfish friendship Pooh will one day rue.
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Categories:
mauled, america, friendship, humor,
Form: Limerick
she left me for a woman
...She left me for a woman.
What can I say it just happened . a lost puppy
she avoided me at first but ate the food
skeptical in her young life, she has suffered
cruelty
I was watching TV when s...
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Categories:
mauled, absence, beautiful, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Watched It
...Watched it, well not IT, not the balloon
with a clown attached to it.
Watched a true story better left alone
I’m all alone
I must dispense the dust cover of fear
My pillow is mauled
in toss and...
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Categories:
mauled, fear,
Form: Free verse
my dayly convo
...MY DAILY CONVO
why do i exist?
why am i alive?
why do we destroy ourselves
for others.
we wanna die but what
about our mothers.
RUTS and MUTS!
is what we're called,
we might as well just b...
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Categories:
mauled, anger, anxiety, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Free verse
A Picasso President
...I have claimed to be apolitical but there are times
when the crop is ready for harvesting, so I put fuel
in the John Deere, ink in my pen and wrote...
He'll get millions of votes for ...
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Categories:
mauled, how i feel,
Form: Limerick
Destiny Gnarrs
...Trapped on a raft
headed straight toward the falls
Unable to jump
without drowning then mauled
The current unyielding
the banks close but far
New crafts sit there waiting
as destiny gnarrs ...
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Categories:
mauled, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
FATHER MAY I CLOSE MY EYES--
...I am not given my true name I'm first from Heaven's playing until this worldly is it insane that I have no game except in my game I remain in neglect the rain meaning is my answer on to the ground ea...
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Categories:
mauled, adventure, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Terror Bugs: Epilogue - A Freezer Mice Adventure
...[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
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Epilogue
The spaceship’s crew - three man size shrews - paced slowly fore to aft
Stanley...
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Categories:
mauled, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Green Hell
...
As I fall into the buzzing altar of heavy
metal shifting sand, maw, swirling sheets,
illness drools plus plus halcyon?
drawn too many wrinkles obfuscating drooling
stic...
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Categories:
mauled, art,
Form: Rhyme
Consuming Thought with a Burning Spoon
...I'm not unmotivated,
It's just hard to feel excitement when the only side I've ever seen of it,
Was a mauled reflection
I'm not disheartened,
It's just hard to feel accomplished when its onl...
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Categories:
mauled, angst, anxiety, desire, fear,
Form: Free verse
CVS does the right thing
...The regional manager called
Embarrassed and rightly appalled
When we pick up drugs
They won't treat us like thugs
But give hugs so we don’t feel mauled
...
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Categories:
mauled, appreciation, how i feel,
Form: Limerick
Hide Your Bones
...Look for the bones in shattered statues.
Look for the missing, the mauled limbs,
do not blame time,
seek out the mob,
you will find then hiding in plain sight.
Look for the bones of the Yamaka...
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Categories:
mauled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Trespassing
...TRESPASSING
Here I am
Your dream girl.
I heard you say it
When you mauled
And crawled
My skin
And tore it
Of prudence, and
(nine! nine! only nine!)
Every coulda shoulda woulda
Took hol...
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Categories:
mauled, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Salt Eyes
...He sits hunched in his room, regular twilights,
tries to erase the precarious voices telling him to leave,
“Leave, my boy. This world is cruel.”
So, he assents as there is no one to be bereaved.
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Categories:
mauled, gender, loneliness, sad,
Form: I do not know?
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