Pinball Poems - Poems about Pinball

Roll up to the amusement arcade. Behold all the video games you can play - Dodgem car driving games, smash-'em-up derbies. Claw-crane lunge-and-snag-a-toy games, Pop-a-shot in basketball hoops, Pac-Man, Mario, Galaga, Street Fighter. Way-back in the far shadowy back corner is the Old ‘Pinball-For-Poesy’ Machine, with lights blazing like a disco-machine. “5 Stanzas Fires for a Buck,” reads the sign. Come on, Come on, give...

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Carpal tunnel twinges punctuate a torpid afternoon, as row on row we line the aisles and stare at nothing with the guarded anonymity of urinating men. My thumb is on the lever, moving almost imperceptibly, as marbles rocket into space and filter down through obstacles designed to keep the management in business. The captive of a chain reaction freed from craving by acceptance of the preordained, I decompose, am compromised, incorporated...

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"Pinball Wizard" strange sounds hypnotize from an ARCADE challenging me to a dual escapade silver balls wait in line for fingers to opine female transforms to pinball wizard on parade. STAR TREK is my machine of choice listening to CAPTAIN KIRK'S commanding voice ENTERPRISE flies at warp speed as numbers calculate point feed as a TREKKIE I win a la Royce.* MORTAL...

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Sssttttuhhp....clunk. Plink..plinkplink...flip, boink, dink, plink. Donk, donkdonk, plink, doink, dink. Flipflap..dink, plinkplink, doink. Doink, doinkdoink, whirrrrrr, buzzzzzzzz dink. "Oh darn". Sssttttuhhp....clunk. Plink, doinkbink, flipflap, bink. Twirrrrrrrrtwirrrrrrrr, twirrrrrrr boink. flipflap.....clunk "Oh....Man"! Sssttttuhhp....clunk. Plinkplinkboinkdoink...flip...bonk shhhupduuuup. dink, doink, boink, shuuuup. plink, ploinkploink, dink doink. booooouuuuupboooooouuuup...boink flipflap...clunk "Shoot"! Sssttttuhhp....clunk. plinkplinkplinkplink, doink flipflap, bonk, boink, twirrrrrr. doink, boink, bonk, wuuuuuup, twirrrrrr, puurrrrrrrr. plink, ploink, doinkdoink, purrrrrrrr, shuuuuupshuuuup plinkplinkplink, doink, flip, doink, flip, trrrruuuuurrrrp. "YES"! (shakes machine) TILT! TILT! TILT! "NOooooooooo"!...

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The Pinball wizard is dead That deaf dumb and blind kid Was shot dead by a stranger It was such a senseless murder...

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