Apartment 310
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She died three days ago, the lady in
the apartment at the end of the corridor.
She was eighty-three. The medics rolled
her out in a shiny black body bag,
a not uncommon sight in this hous...
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Categories:
muffler, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
I thought it would be a smaller plane
...I live in the flight path of fifty to one hundred planes a day
Very rarely do my dogs look up now
They think it is normal for the sky to sound like a 747
Today was an exception
We all looked up
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Categories:
muffler, life,
Form: Free verse
glad it is them and not me
...in the distance it sounds like a monster truck at a drag race
people on adventures, traveling north and south
seeking the wonders and highlights of kansas city
as i sit on my old-fashioned porch
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Categories:
muffler, travel,
Form: Free verse
Waiting
...The snow man stands deadpan under the faint
Glow of the lamp, his scarf damp as snowflakes
Fall ‘round him, the land grim--isn’t it quaint?
The fake smile--what guile!--who would smile like that...
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Categories:
muffler, heartbreak, loneliness, longing, snow,
Form: Rhyme
What the Cat Dragged in the song
...[Guitar solo introduction]
[Chorus]
Oh look at what the cat dragged in,
and he looks like the dog worked him over too,
and for some reason he thinks he smells like clover,
was it whisky or win...
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Categories:
muffler, drink, humor,
Form: Lyric
Life in the Country
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My wife and I have spent a good deal of our lives living between the city limit signs of one metropolis or another. As urban dwellers, we were constantly bombarded with the rumble of noises driftin...
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Categories:
muffler, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Fruit Leather
...You bite that apple!
Give it a go, put on a show
There is no shame
You said shame is a sham
And clams are happy
Do they hop or skip?
Tripping along the seafloor
Playing hopscotch
Eating numbe...
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Categories:
muffler, fruit, humor, satire,
Form: Free verse
Ring Camera Spies
...See them gather around you, observing everything that you do, see them on top of the tree, listening to your heart beat and measuring your speech.
See them sitting underneath the tree talking abo...
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Categories:
muffler, america, city, class, color,
Form: Narrative
Walk Through the Woods
...A walk through the woods on a wintry day
Making fresh tracks in the blanket of snow,
Bundled up in my parka, muffler, and gloves
Biding my time with no specific place to go,
Watching the ...
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Categories:
muffler, weather, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Abbott Cat
...Abbott Cat
—————————————(Dedicated to our unique cat Gnash)***.
*…..*****….*****…..
Know that Abbott Cat
Had the stride
Of the pure…placing:
Each step forward
With the slightest lif...
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Categories:
muffler, allegory, character, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
One Heartache Away
...The dishwasher died on Thanksgiving.
The roof sprang a leak in the storm.
The shower drain backed up this morning.
The hot water’s not even warm.
But don’t think I’m always complaining.
Hell,...
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Categories:
muffler, allegory, blue, heartbreak,
Form: Lyric
Youth
...Youth
When we were young, nothing worried us at all.
From spring through summer through winter and fall
We built forts from boxes some four feet high
We climbed trees like monkeys some went to ...
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Categories:
muffler, children, cute, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
The Idea of You
...A deep brown collar, lurking from
underneath the green plaid coat.
A smirk on your face, as you turned
the page of your favorite book. “To
define is to limit”, I feel my maroon
muffler tighten ...
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Categories:
muffler, crush, dark, dream, longing,
Form: Free verse
Muscle Car and Muscle Dad
...muffler
muscle car
wife beater shirt
my dad in the sixties
muffler...
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Categories:
muffler, car, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Cinqku
Take a Bow
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Take a step take a bow
don't push me too hard
am still in reminiscence
of my lost course
which tells you I ve not recovered
Take a step take a bow
and don't knock me off
the que...
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Categories:
muffler, adventure, break up, depression,
Form: Free verse
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