Short Blue Book Poems

Project Blue Book
chasing U-F-Os 
did they find anything?...

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blue book 
of black matches
with purple tips

a flame 
to a smoke
then a drag

i relish
exhale slow
and drag again...

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Blue book
Wasted four pages
To give an answer
Worth one word
And in exchange,
I got a letter
Second best
Comes after first
When all I should
Have said was
Love...

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The average price of a new car's up to $37, 185**
   Only a fool would expect it to take a nosedive
The Auto Industry's defense, more circumlocution
   Consumers' pockets picked; the time's ripe for revolution




**Source:  Kelley Blue Book, June 9, 2019...

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I walk into a desk-filled room
where all are hunched and hard at work,
and several pause to turn and glare
at me, the late-arriving jerk.

The teacher hands a small blue book, 
“So glad that you have found the place!”
It is a Chemistry exam;
the color drains out of my face.

Some forty years now, out of school,
yet still those nightmares make me sweat.
Some people wish their dreams come true;
trust me, that’s one I don’t regret!...

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America’s paint brush is the gun.
	     Its violent expression of blood
	     is only abstract
	     after the fact
 	     when, body removed,
	     the outline of wasted youth
 	     remains on the ground
	     in life’s final sprawl
	     that will never again
	     arise for a morning shower
	     or make a late sprint to class
	     or inscribe a blue book with thought
	     the least of which
	     to a mother and father somewhere
	     is too much to miss....

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