Animal Repetition Poems

An Original Idea

Self Reference
Is Dumb.
Or DONE!
"Yeah, say it like that."

Oh, shut up,
You're just trying to 
Be WeIrD...

And it's Not
Even 
That,
It's Passe,
Or Pompous,
Or Overripe and Trite.

Make...

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"My favorite animal is steak" - Fran Lebowitz


The restaurant had only steak -
Fran Lebowitz favored meat.
This was more than I could take...
I wanted something else...

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In walked the Redeyed Stranger


Bragging: he used an excessive amount of
bagging gestures and words. He was told by
his handler to tune down the rhetoric, as...

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Soaring in the air, a murder of crows goes by. 
Calling ahead, crows are truly sly. 
Leaving behind only riddles and rhymes
Sneaking away, haunting bedtimes....

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The hens from our small, urban farm,
Had wild idea, caused great fright:
Escape their pen, come to no harm,
See a show, without a blight.

With feathers ruffling...

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One day …
I offered you a compromise,
But you went riding by,
Upon your high, high horse,
With your nose up in the sky.

One day …
I offered you...

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--Ashtray's Mistakes--


Prehistoric defibrillating battlegrounds. The memorial, obviously unpleasant.

Entrapped in the know how, detrimental reimbursement.

Sundried; like the corpse of a moon bridge, fading away.

Tinfoil hats do...

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Locked in the frost,
Halloween seems like a gatepost, 

Fantasies turn into a permafrost,
Pumpkins next to the doorpost, 

Vampires at the rearmost,
Ghosts at the bedpost,
Wolves at...

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We dream of rain... 
And the mystery of the gun
We bold hold and driven apart 
Kill the king when lovers depart
We dream of rain and...

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On days like these.
I feel the need. 
When lovers roam.
Driven a part, I need these
Feel my hand the reason it bleeds
and most of all I...

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Have you ever watched an aardvark
   on display at your local zoo
He paces back and forth, forth and back
   I get...

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they found the discovery sound science
they started their research thinking
they could use natural additives mixed
with corn to allow their technology to see the vapor
coming from...

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For example a Dachshund dog was thrown 5 floors to his death
The owner photographed this and posted it online
His dog looked like he was sleeping...

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Running from the snow-covered mountain
in a thin blue shirt 
that welcomes the cold 

Running to the ocean that lays years away
The neck of a large...

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If I could take a step away
In hopes of seeing
From the outside 
Of where I stand
Without the perception 
Of a mortal life
Or the blink of...

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