body box - what i am now v2
...if you saw me
the way i see myself
maybe you'd get it.
"count your calories,
read the nutrition panels,
diet,
exercise,"
i know.
believe me,
i know.
"it's for your health,"
turns i...
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Categories:
rigatoni, anti bullying, body, dark,
Form: Free verse
Things I love
...There are so many things I am mad about.
Take sunrise with red clouds and soft rays
Penetrating through the water-laden clouds.
Rain is imminent, thunder threatening afar.
It matters not, for I l...
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Categories:
rigatoni, love,
Form: Free verse
what i am now
...if you saw me
the way i see myself
maybe you'd get it.
"count your calories,
read the nutrition panels,
diet,
exercise,"
i know.
believe me,
i know.
"it's for your health,"
turns i...
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Categories:
rigatoni, sad, slam,
Form: Free verse
Ode to Pasta
...You are the stuff my culinary dreams are made of.
Unending shapes and sizes.
From skinny linguini to the rounded orecchiette
and squiggly fusilli.
As my tongue tastes morsels of your sau...
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Categories:
rigatoni, food, funny, parody, passion,
Form: Free verse
Pasta Love
...How do I eat thee? Let me count the ways:
sauced, buttered, plain,
sprinkled with Parmigiano Reggiano,
pesto, pancetta, bacon.
Rowdy rigatoni, flamboyant farfalle,
perky penne, funny fus...
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Categories:
rigatoni, food, funny, happiness, love,
Form: Free verse
Glenna's Wedding---1975
...We went to Glenna’s wedding
that late afternoon in summer, you
and I destined next, never younger.
And there was a rigatoni buffet
and open bar soaked in Popov
and lime, and everyone
was ...
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Categories:
rigatoni, lost love, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
How Do You Feel
...Ethan, did you fix that fence?
and strip that door?
you're losing your sense.
you've hit the floor.
so, how do you feel?
so far from home.
like a complete unknown.
how do you feel?
yes, how d...
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Categories:
rigatoni, family, history, journey, life,
Form: Ballad
Rigatoni Rictameter Probablamatic Poem
...Rigatoni Rictameter Probablamatic Poem
(Probably Italian.)
One
Great Day
Month of May
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Categories:
rigatoni, humorous,
Form: I do not know?
Picking a Pasta
...Eeny meeny capellini,
Ziti, elbows, bucatini.
Vermicelli, farfalloni,
Gnocchi, orzo, rigatoni.
Alfabeto and linguine,
Cavatelli, fettuccine.
Penne, pappardelle and gigli,
Stelle, risi, tripo...
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Categories:
rigatoni, food,
Form: Rhyme
My Food
...I want pizza,
from the pickles to olives,
I crave some food,
from pepperoni to cheese.
I want macaroni and cheese,
from elbow pasta to rigatoni,
I crave some food,
from cheddar cheese to p...
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Categories:
rigatoni, child, childhood, children, chocolate,
Form: Free verse
School Supplies
...I glanced out my window watchin' kids plod along to school today.
I recalled my school days and how things have changed along the way
I watched the little fellers hunched over with their over-loade...
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Categories:
rigatoni, funny, school, school, school,
Form: Rhyme
Dining Out
...Tonight my wife proclaimed, "My dear, we are dining out!"
I said, "Fine! How about steak and taters or rainbow trout?"
"No" she insisted, "I want an exotic Italian dish!"
Alas, I lost another tet...
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Categories:
rigatoni, food, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Busboy Forest
...Under paper napkin clouds, silver bridges connect the great red mesa.
Bubbling soda rivers run silently behind the spiced Marinara bathed angel hair.
Discarded pipeline strew the banks where black...
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Categories:
rigatoni, food
Form: Verse
Heart Wit Claim
...I'm boring through your ventricles
I'm being terribly invasive
My quiet warm breath
Keeping measure and pace
To such meticulous work
Fills your four chambers
You don't feel o...
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Categories:
rigatoni, science
Form: Free verse
A Tasty Variety
...when I think of her
no one dish comes to mind
for she's a wide variety of delicious treats
something to satisfy my hunger
I always find
In the morning she's soft and sweet
as buttermilk panca...
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Categories:
rigatoni, food
Form: I do not know?
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