Short Asbestos Poems

gnashed teeth
and battery flavored asbestos
& so open minded
that its fallen out
a Chernobyl sneeze
deteriorating
the gestalt...

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Asbestos Pudding


Here have I an ethereal belly
And, before me, asbestos jelly!


(In sly reference to College workload of assignments as inspired by mountains whose bedrock is endowed with asbestos mineral))


JM

22nd Feb’ 2014...

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We can’t catch the breezes inside,
so we take to the porches, verandas, fire escapes.
Watch an asbestos moon rise
over steaming rooftops,
and count flags from far away cities.

Below, beetles swallow our Elm trees whole,
as I listen to the neighbors bickering
and someone else’s harmonica....

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Martians, they don’t live here
Even astronauts keep clear 
Residing though in darkest places
Charred: the eyebrows on their faces
Up from underground they creep 
Resembling small asbestos sheep
Yikes they bleat at red hot feet



11 May 2021
Contest: Planet Acrostic
Sponsor: Matt Caliri...

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Allegory illusion
Misconstrued contusions
Clouded mind mental block 
heartbeat stops
10 inch asbestos floor tile
~
1940's steps gone wild
Making perfect sense, making it very clear
Daunting doubting rainbows, Blended in the new atmosphere
Atomic bombarded Warfare debonair
World War 111 we're all out 
...

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Walking down streets which are clad in blue bricks
past shops that all seem to sell just old rusting shutters.
Mums pushing prams, empty of hope
Charity shops selling rich peoples cast offs
factory's knocked down and turned into new housing estates
Asbestos-is  and cancer as taken  the fathers
School classes so large with so many languages 
The great British dream lies bleeding in  tatters
caused by inept members of parliament 
living their dream of progressive policys ....

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