Pocketbook Poems

Phoney Money

...
With a wallet full of plastic ... 

     credit cards to shape my social classification 
     phone cards so I can stay informed 
     a debit card that always goes in debt 
     a card declar...

Mossy Face of Decay

...I'm at ease in nature 
its informality- ignoring stains of unknown origin
in the crease of my blue jeans
Church is rigid like a crucifix, 
everything in its proper place
Nature makes the sweetes...

DP3 DIARY OF DIONDRA POSH: Temporary Employment

...May  2051

Dear diary I think I'll try for a part
Time job which I just know beyond
Anything I'm gonna hate! So I'll work
It out um. Without a doubt. I just
Don't wanna sit at home to much!
I ...

Sunshine Boy

...Sunshine Boy, Sunshine Boy,
Drowning in the rain,
Waiting for the sun to kiss,
Your vaunted gravy train.

Racing for the Hall of Fame,
You found the finish line,
Winning in the wonderment,
Of...

Merry Christmas

...Look at all the opportunities life presents itself
During the Christmas season are you the Grinch or do you turn into one of Santa's elves
The season is generally a happy time for us to enjoy
For ...

Fugacious

...As quickly as it came, oops, now it's gone
You had it for a second but you couldn't hold on

But how could you hold on when it's fleeting? 
Not many are learning but Aquarius is teaching

     ...

Be Thou My Surgeon

...Parody of "Be Thou My Vision"
Be Thou my surgeon, Oh Creator of life;
Please be tender to me, save my sight you can
You my one hope better than glasses
Driving or working, my vis...

Trump Poems and Epigrams Vi

...Trump Poems and Epigrams VI

Poets laud Justice’s
high principles.
Trump just gropes
her raw genitals.
—Michael R. Burch



Dark Shroud, Silver Lining
by Michael R. Burch

Trump cares so...

Wise Granddaughter

...But Grandma, there is a big shark in the pool the five-year-old said.
If I dive in like you want I will most likely end up dead.
Grandma was paying for the swim lessons. She told her to get in!
Th...

I See Love

...I see love
wetting a napkin
cleaning a frowning face

I see love
holding a pocketbook
outside the ladies dressing room

I see love
walking slowly
holding hands

I see love
hurrying to ke...

WORD

... 
Don't promise me or say things that you don't really mean
Don't say that you love me and then start to act obscene
Don't promise me a fairytale, and that I will be your Queen
Don't say ...

Freedom and Liberty the Price We Pay

...The price we pay for our freedom is not contained in a man’s wallet,
Nor is liberty a currency found in a female fancy Gucci pocketbook.


It’s not in anyone’s liquidity portfolio investment bank...

Writing Poems Is Legitimate Now

...From both sides of the world we poets hail
Japanese Chokra and Russian Chatushka
Italian sonnet and African Kwansaba
Keenly delighting each other without fail

Within ballad a most interesting t...

Inanimate Thoughts

...Our car must wonder why the heck
It isn’t being used.
Cosmetics in my make-up drawer
Are equally confused.

My pocketbook forlornly sits,
Sure it’s been left behind.
My brand-new jumpsuit in t...

Afterward

...Seen from the bruised sheets
the two open mouths of her shoes
(one face down and drunk
the other lopsidedly agape)
speak to him in groans and murmurs.

Her face smudges the glass
in the bathro...

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