Short Bootleg Poems

From a corn husker's view
it's quite natural, not new
It's like spit fire under the moon
Lit up like bootleg
and clean as the rows
upon rows upon rows stood divided
Freedom from fumes 
so we scrape and exhume
every bone, every shred of our conscience
and we buy the new wheel
just to think and to feel
that we too swim in currents of difference...

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What breaks you is a seed.
You water it with silence,
Prune it with isolation,
Feed it with attention.

What shattered your world,
Will shape your crown.
A bootleg kind of royalty,
Rooted not in applause,
But in stillness.

The pain always leads back to Eden.
Not as a path,
But as a remembering.
A breaking point.
A rhythm you lost,
Then became.
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Cadaver, Godiva and Quiver
     I believe that I've poisoned my liver

   Pushcart on the ramp fell apart
     I'm afraid I've damaged my heart

   Pencil Lead, Interbred, Seeing Red
     I think I've a hole in my head

   Had to beg for a keg of bootleg
     They just amputated both legs

   Only one thing I dread even more
     ~ A fall from the bed to the floor...

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if absence make the
heart grow fonder ~ presence make
heart run better

if you take money 
from high interest banks ~ make sure
they know its a loan

a dime a dozen
are friends that back you ~ true friends  
a penny well-earned

Humpty wall sitter
Dumpty egg cracker ~ egghead
scramled hard bootleg

a penny face up
bearers Midas Touch ~ penny
face down ~ leave aground...

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GORILLA    ROMANCE



Swinging hand-in-foot under the moon
Resting your foot on my neck makes me swoon

The cute way you brush your face and arms
Wearing  my ring on your third toe has its charms

When we dance, the way your knuckles trail the floor
Then I know I’m yours forever more

Our favorite song  (bootleg Beatles) so cute
“I wanna hold your foot….”

And the way you carefully check my fleas
Oh,  you’re so  sexy   - peel  another  banana with your toes, please...

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