Short Concierge Poems

Misleading women were never here.
Their actions not for sure.
They're total cost of being great
a lack of loss concierge.

To fail them with a right or wrong
of others to conceal,
when all that love is passed on by
a hunger for the feel.

That even I can say I'm great
for others to be still
And only I can say to wait
for others to be real....

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the edge of the universe, the milky way, the sun, the planet, the continent, the country, the city, the apartment building, the old concierge friendly face, the creaky elevator, nobody's home, the elevator, the friendly face, the building, the city, the country, the continent and so on.

going far away,
make sure you did not forget
documents and keys...

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Where is that daunting monster
Boogie man in life’s shadow
Master mentor and concierge
Whose touch I’ve come to know

To you I’ll waste no breath
Beauty is not long and septic
My daunting docent of death
Midwife to misery, work quick

What small dignities remain
Strung of vomiting seconds 
Cultures a pearl of great pain 
To ferry a man of no direction
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Evil’s Bookends


Sept 8, 2001, 7:30PM
The limo arrives
the concierge opens the doors
to a clear cool night in the city,
a first Broadway Play.
A cell phone call, a Playbill
tucked between a broken pencil
and a pair of bifocals.

Sept 12, 2001, 10:35AM
Sirens blare
amid grey-white ash.
A cell phone rings,
torn Playbill flaps.
Broken pencil,
sightless glasses,
crushed in the grip
of mindless madness.



9/30/2014
Submitted for Craig Cornish
Chopped – Poetry Contest...

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