Ova
...The distant cold hum
of a refrigerated embryology.
Morning eggs arrayed
in their cartons,
domed power-plants
in laboratory-white.
I crack a shell open,
by cautious habit
check for any tel...
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Categories:
refrigerated, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Toe Tag
...Here I lie in this cooler, this fridge where I would rather not be, but the truth of the matter is you’ve done it, you got the best of me
I lasted as long as I could, and I put up a good fight, but ...
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Categories:
refrigerated, death,
Form: Rhyme
Chapter 93 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Affluent Festive Funeral Family Reunion
...There was a twenty minute lull
Before the paramedics arrived to
Remove Greatgrand Dad's
corpse. When the paramedics
Arrived they examed Greatgrand
And confirmed the family's dread.
Damian a...
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Categories:
refrigerated, birth, life,
Form: Alliteration
Pickled Pickle Party
...No bash so far, beats the one in the jar
Emcee DJ Green spins for the jarstar
No ill will to spill, just dancing on dill
When the lid comes off it’s an open bar!
So relish your time and come g...
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Categories:
refrigerated, humor,
Form: Rubaiyat
Occupational Therapy
...I’ve been working since I was twelve years old,
But my first on-the-books job
Was as a sailor in the US Navy,
Gunners Mate.
Six years and three Westpac deployments.
Fifty months of sea duty
Cha...
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Categories:
refrigerated, work,
Form: List
Flares
...Wandering in sepulchral silence among the artifacts
dredged up from the ocean floor after almost a hundred years
dinner plates, a diamond ring
a pair of patent leather shoes, a deck chair
jeweled...
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Categories:
refrigerated, analogy, boat, death, history,
Form: Free verse
Kombucha Trilogy With Chia Seeds Spells Molotov Cocktail
...(particularly when nursed at room temperature)
I learned that Kombucha
best be kept refrigerated lest
said probiotic drink
served at room temperature
(incorporating live bacteria) erupts
chia...
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Categories:
refrigerated, adventure, analogy, confusion, extended
Form: Free verse
Pet Rocks and More
...Pet Rocks And More
(rocks don’t snore)
Pet rocks must be kept refrigerated
Wrapped in aluminum foil for protection
Visitors mistake them for dinner rolls
Butter them up at midnight in the dark...
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Categories:
refrigerated, appreciation, friend, pets, rude,
Form: Free verse
From the Trees Fruits Salads-
...Grapes on the Mountainside from trees and Vines;
Loose apples in the summertime some of the trees;
Some falling from sky to the ground;
Yummy;
Lettuce mix-up chopped up fruits in kind;
...
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Categories:
refrigerated, analogy, fruit,
Form: Free verse
Unconquerable Almost
...Cockroaches are generalized insects with few special adaptations. Most are the size of a thumbnail, but they can be as big as 3.8 inches and weigh 30 grams. Their largest wingspan is 7.3 in. They are...
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Categories:
refrigerated, insect,
Form: Free verse
Comfort
...winter of discontent
contentious parade
snow man without carrot
flaked garrottes
icicles frozen synapses
permafrost neurons
refrigerated transmitters
crystal clear rime
arr...
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Categories:
refrigerated, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Invisible
...EXCUSE ME!!!!
Do you not see me
standing before you?
Do you not realize that I,
a black woman had a life
that mattered too?
The black woman appears to be
the best kept secret in death
being w...
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Categories:
refrigerated, america, anger, black african
Form: Free verse
Gauche Caviar
...
Gauche Caviar*
I see! What's good for me, is not
certainly not good for thee!
A mask, I must wear when they
do my roots, 'Madam Speaker',
of this mask you are magi...
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Categories:
refrigerated, conflict, irony, perspective, political,
Form: Rhyme
About Dead People
...Respect dead people and never sleep with them
Don't expect call backs from the dead
Smoking, drinking and deceased in trunks of cars
Are bad habits and probably against the law in Alabama
It is...
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Categories:
refrigerated, abuse, appreciation, death, judgement,
Form: Quatrain
Climate Change
...Long ago upon the shore, the last remaining Stegosaur
A chill wind blew where ferns once used to sway
And this may not be topical, but dinosaurs were tropical
Yet now the sky was overcast and grey...
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Categories:
refrigerated, earth, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Rhyme
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