Short Exigencies Poems

     A pony 
       her dream 
          only

     orthodontics
       violin lessons
         yearly safaris

       these exigencies 
         dreams to dust
            duly turn
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Literal is not,

the fake climb is aunt,

and a stake in the attrition not an alimony as you can see clearly in me...I do not assuage an empire-

I follow in the most economical exigencies,

as one is up, another is down my friend....

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September’s serendipitous serenade
Evokes the ebullience of ecstasy 
Provokes a prancing promenade
Tingeing the torrid leaf tips
Exacting an elemental excitements
Monumental majesty
Blue-black horizons blending
Exotically enigmatic exigencies
Ruby reds rollicking in the Rockies


John G. Lawless
©9/1/2018...

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under the canopy of primordial forest, a wild fern grows nestled
into the less-known path where exigencies take on diffused light
and rainwater trickles its descent, scalloping patterns of colour;
have you ever heard a fern crow with green feathers, sleek against
the sky, as if rocks could sing of joy and the only sin is not being here?...

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"Let me draw your bath, Sweet Face!"
(the space heater's perched upon the rim,
with some hydrochloric acid, just in case.)

My .45 revolver, my machete from Trelew
will come in very handy, lest 
the other two exigencies fall through.

I think I've thought of everything
except that creep you slept with,
I'll sneak up, and take him by surprise!  

Now the the only thing remaining,
harlot, bane of my existence,
is my holler of delight at your demise!...

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"Let me draw your bath, Sweet Face!"
(the space heater's perched upon the rim,
with some hydrochloric acid, just in case.)

My .45 revolver, my machete from Trelew
will come in very handy, lest 
the other two exigencies fall through.

I think I've thought of everything
except that creep you slept with,
I'll sneak up, and take him by surprise!  

Now the the only thing remaining,
harlot, bane of my existence,
is my holler of delight at your demise!...

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"Let me draw your bath, dear Grace!" 
(the space heater's perched upon the rim, 
and there's hydrochloric acid, just in case!) 

My .45 revolver, my machete from Trelew 
will come in very handy 
if the other two exigencies fall through! 

I think I've thought of everything 
except to kill that creep you slept with, 
may he rot in Hades, damn his eyes! 

Now the the only thing remaining, 
harlot, bane of my existence, 
is my holler of delight at your demise!...

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"Let me draw your bath, dear Grace!" 
(the space heater's perched upon the rim, 
and there's hydrochloric acid, just in case!) 

My .45 revolver, my machete from Trelew 
will come in very handy 
if the other two exigencies fall through! 

I think I've thought of everything 
except to kill that creep you slept with, 
may he rot in Hades, damn his eyes! 

Now the the only thing remaining, 
harlot, bane of my existence, 
is my holler of delight at your demise!...

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