Short Guidebook Poems

I regret
there is no guidebook for love
..I regret
manual to parenthood
I too regret
mistakes and anxious concerns
as you grew,I too,slow to learn
I regret
there is no guidebook for love
..I regret
manual to parenthood
I too regret
not speaking, aloud my love
..I regret
wanting, too much for you
I too regret
seeking ,what you could not see
...I regret
trying ,to make you too much like me
.. I regret
there is no guidebook for love...

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Crook!
She stole my guidebook,
my pink Ray-Bans, my outlook
— it’s grim. The schnook
snatched my Diamonte fountain pen. She took

my attaché case filled with cash. Forsook
my manners — she’s in my grip. A sirloin meat hook
indubitably-yes or to pressure-cook.

I turned her upside-down and shook

A nearby copper brings us in after he has a look.
The judge closed the book

on me. Called me a crook…
that schnook!

8/5/2019...

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friend 
encyclopedia own hundreds notions, but the most important answers of the 
life's questions one can't find there. the colleague 
vocabulary own myriad words, but the most significant sentenses of the 
life's speech one can't gain there. the guidebook atlas 
own thousands maps, but the most paramount way of the life's path one 
can't see there. the buddy calendar own the 
clock's time, but the supreme hour of the life's extreme one can't 
measure there...

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