Short Clunky Poems

clunky chunky unfamiliar words
not easily understood due to their tweets and pops
shoving themselves against my dendrite highway
hidden yet acutely felt
dancing the brain Watusi 
I wonder if I will ever write again...

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Chunky,
clunky,
flunky,
junkie,
you're a chunky, clunky, drugged up tool,
flunky to a junkie, and a fool.


(Tyburn)


08,08,2019
Your Turn For A Tyburn Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: charles messina...

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MA MAIN MAN STAN GRAHAM JAMMIN WITH THE BAND ON THE GRANDSTAND, I SAID WUDDUP CHUCK GIMME A CHERRY SLUSH AND PLAY THE WOODCHUCK SONG, GO OUT BACK HIND THE PORTOJOHNS AND HIT THE BONG, AIN'T NOTHIN WRONG WITH THOSE $3.97 CIGARETTES...

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My trusty chunky Globite with its rusty clunky latches, 
Its shattered battered corners and its lid worn thin with scratches, 
Pink Floyd stickers on the inside where the teachers couldn't see 'em, 
Now my dusty rusty Globite’s sitting here in a museum....

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Posy and Punky rode a kinky ass
                     Went to the market to buy awesome trash
                                 But the trash was clunky
                                   Said Posy and Punky
                    The ass rolled his eyes hey they are still fresh...

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Oars slap water,
a heron
watching, fishing, being still as
stone.

An early sun
crashing through the mist
intent on warming eggs.

Oars sweep a clunky-swoosh,
white wake burbles.

Row slow
By the time the kitchen is reached,
It will be minutes before breakfast,
there will be bacon.

Oars slap water,
gently, ever so gently....

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Christmastime is coming 
Creeping as slow as clunky computers or considerable holiday traffic
Checking calendars compulsively, but no commensurate haste for the 25th date
Carollers' cheer will circumnavigate continents 
Confetti smiles spreading across city and country, contagious 
Could we cut away the caseload of peripheral days
Can't Christmas be instant? The Church bells chime...

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Smarter than a dolphin golfing a par five with two raging rabid bears

Smarter than a blind man walking up seven uneven stairs

Smarter than a clunky monkey who takes your quarter at fairs

Smarter than a genius that keeps his mouth closed because no one cares

Smarter than a species that is not found and still out there

Smarter than Einstein's brain so step into my lair.   -TA...

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It was years ago
a lonely year.
a more clunky and mechanical age,
a dial-up decade.

He sent out needy signals.
Eventually a divorced lady from
Doncaster responded.

Sensual seeds were planted.
E-mails were exchanged
together with photographs
taken years earlier.

One day, not long after
a mutual disappointment
fizzed between them
like a dying fly.

Together they dialed-out....

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I can't go in our room
It's empty
and full of things you discarded
cigarette butts, phone numbers without names
lonely things not shared but bombarded
so I shut the door
like I shut out your leavin me
that door, it just keeps talkin
might as well paint that door red
I'm thinkin bout puttin my shoes on
remember? with the big, clunky heels?
I'm thinkin bout kickin that damn door in
JUST TO SEE HOW IT FEELS


Hah! Kimmy...

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A heron shoots a glassy eye
keeps fishing by doing nothing.
Oars slap water.

An early sun crashes through the mist
intent on warming eggs in lakeside nests.

Slap go the oars, a clunky-swoosh,
a white wake burbling.

If I row very slowly
it will be a few minutes before breakfast.
You will be dishing a trout onto a buttery plate.

Elsewhere, a silver fish 
swims down a blue herons throat
       slip slapping all the way....

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Great-Dancing Monkey

Funky
monkey

Not Ben and Jerry’s!

Chunky
Monkey

Servant Baboon

Monkey
flunky

Monkey in Chains

Clunky 
Monkey

Too Long Near Skunk Cage

Skunky
monkey

Monkey Tree Lover

Hanger
Langur

Foreman of Monkey Brigade

Langer
Ganger

When Monkeys Want to Eat like Humans

Baboons 
grab spoons

Stolen by Renegade Baboons

Baboons
nab prunes

Jan. 18, 2023
for Brian Strand No 1172 Poetry Contest...

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