The Live-in -- Part 2 of 3
...She here elbowed past me stomping, pausing not (although me whomping
With her wildly swinging handbag – five kilograms, if not more).
Cackling brusquely in a lather, that I should her baggage gathe...
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Categories:
phlegmy, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
First Pour
...An unreflective bodhisattva
nods to the unwashed dishes.
Once again I seek a daily liberation
from a chore long boondoggled.
Next a phlegmy mantra
gummed through spongy lips.
I sleep, I wake....
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Categories:
phlegmy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Coffee Making Ceremony
...An unreflective Bodhisattva
nods to the unwashed dishes.
Once again I seek my morning
liberation by ways of a dark libation
Next a phlegmy mantra
gummed through spongy lips.
“I sleep, I wake...
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Categories:
phlegmy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Reporters Who Risk Life and Limb
......To Save Strays Deserve Lagniappe
Ruff lee, e'er since
aye waz za lil whippersnapper
watt wit dis awful temper, yet
obedient to a pooch loving Aleut
til present moment, Asian ...
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Categories:
phlegmy, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Colonel Flighty
...Colonel Flighty is a cad
Thinks himself a funny wag
Thinks he's mighty, ain't that sad
"Look at me! A strutting stag!"
Jiggly belly, jowls that sag
Throat all phlegmy, such a drag
Trousers sm...
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Categories:
phlegmy, body, character, corruption, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Memory of Adelaide
...A wind rolled away down a lonely street
Like silent thunder wrenching, reaping dread,
While an ancient man drew the covers up
To thaw old bones reclined on slatted bed.
Phlegmy eyes coughed into wak...
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Categories:
phlegmy, angst, death, nostalgia, sad,
Form: Rhyme