Short Carted Poems

winter drops 
hints
in the pre-dawn 
hours
slick surfaces
frost-covered
windshields
last night's
drunks
frozen stiff
carted off
to the morgue...

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Are all these eyes imbued
With a magic of
Soft awed insightfulness
Under Autumn's spell.

To note, in both apple
And what thereabouts
Old carted, rusty leaved
Alike fair does swell....

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The rain stopped
  the sun was gone
 
Mercy was in
  short supply
 
Smoke hung over
  the battlefield
 
A bugler in the mud
  with his cry
 
Bodies were being
  carted off
 
New songs were written
  to the dead
 
Just another day in
  World War 1
 
That started and ended
   in dread

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2014)...

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The able had plucked all the yellow on top.
They had carted away with all the lemon too;
Left only the  green on the papaya tree.
The lame came and left with the green they met.
On the dinner-table was the last pawpaw shock:
The yellow were icky,the lemon were rotten too;
Only the green were red and crispy in their mouths.




18th Jan.,2015...

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They found my neighbor today
sitting in his chair, seeping
into the fabric. The smell-
rancid fat, a tallowy 
rind of meat. 

The cleaners take days.
Boy George warbles
through the walls. 
Buckets sloshed
and carted to the halls.

No one collects his things.
No one cries.
A ten word
obituary:

Mr. Campbell died
and all anyone noticed
was the 
smell....

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Ballerina envy in a rhino’s body
I toast one high, drinking up my toddy.
Others probably think I was always old like this.
I give them a wink and blow them a kiss.

They are horrified, seeing an old crone sitting here.
Having no idea that I was once young, sexy and dear.
I smack my lips and make loud sounds of the crazy.
At least when I get carted off, they can’t call me lazy....

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Singing in a chorus requires precision
                       The cats cannot do that it was my vision
                                 My thought was inverted
                                  I was booed and carted
                        As they finished this insidious mission.









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Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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Someone once burned a pentagram outside my friend's apartment 
the day after, in the courtyard, he stripped off all his clothes 
silently perching on one leg by the edge of the pool
A faceless neighbor giggled "he's gone flamingo".
after a brief scuffle -they carted him off to jail...
Hesitantly I posted bail I couldn't afford
the very next day 
he stood on two legs
and put in a 
honest days 
work....

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The book sale happens once a year;
I stock up when I go.
The choices wait in boxes,
Alphabetically, by row.

I search for larger paperbacks 
(The ones considered "trade"),
Although they cost as much
As all the hardbacks there displayed.

My son says, "Get a Kindle"
But I love a book in hand, 
A feeling that I know that many
Others understand.

Today they had the book sale
And I carted off my treasures,
So now I have the reads I need
For many summer pleasures....

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I went to Walmart this morning - yes, it was very brave.
My dander was up - I was on high alert - for active shooters and the unmasked.

Then I saw him! A man on the cookie aisle - he looked like he had the monkeypox!
So, I kicked him in the nuts and ran - you can’t be too careful out there.


It turns out that he was just an 80-year-old retiree wearing a polka-dot shirt.
I apologized - from a safe distance - as the paramedics carted him away.


It felt like a close call....

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Grey turns the sky at noon:
Broken arrows storm the atmosphere
With their terrible mastiff and slavers
And carted away the glowing stars.
I gazed with a blurred lens
Into the sky where the sparrows fly	
But the smoke from the burning huts 
Had scared away the sparrow’s choristers: 
No song, no peace, not even a glimpse of hope 
No light, no night, not even the sweet shining stars
For smiling sorrows swings back and forth the town	
And clanged to the souls that once did smile...

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