Short Hosed Poems

Hosed, he may not win, piehole’s constricted.
   Food tossed into pipe, and wedged.
      Yet, with save, he’s unhinged.
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Positive Airway Pressure
For your sleeping pleasure
Use that humidifier
Or your throat will be on fire
Getting started with a C-PAP,
You’re going to need a nap...

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Octavius Australopithecus
  Decided he would take a leak with us
    He aimed his big shooter
    Hosed down an armed looter
  Now relieved ~ his reward superfluous...

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What I thought I knew is no more
But a stranger knocking at my door 
Willful cunning the mask you wear
Cheshire smile slinking to get near
And I the blinded beguiling beast
Let you come in to savor a feast
Unrepentant and sallow and chaste are you 
Liquor erases the mind and all that you do 
Estranged and guarded the door is closed 
Goodbye darkness I will not be hosed...

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Chair of Fire

My father's naughehyde 
recliner was the dusky,
sudden pink of pale pigs.
Hair-oil halo
Scrimshaw headrest

He died in bed

My brother, Richard,
did not weep...
he hosed out the hulk
that had held 
our father's 
few possessions

My brother burned
that old recliner
in a greasy
reluctant fire

Gasoline hissing like snakes
took the place of tears...

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funeral, loss
Katrina Waves

Draws her strength internally
Boasting strong hosed waves ashore
Headed inland she sweeps all asunder 
Vanishing in a breath’s count 
‘Frontage’ lays flattened now
Waved ‘kaput’!Katrina 
Drawing her core strength 
Boasting strong hosed waves ashore 
Head inland she sweeps all asunder 
Vanishing in a breath’s count 
‘Frontage’ lays flattened 
Waves ‘kaput’!...

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