Short Lactose Poems

Yule dinner mishap.
Menu chosen, peon chef;
Lactose –explosion!
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Sugar-free
Lactose-free
Gluten-free
That's me
How can you be free
With these allergies
Trapped inside your body....

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On Lactose Intolerance

Gotta take a pill
So I can eat
Another meal
But when I take
Another pill
It creates
Another bill...

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   Gazing at the stars I wonder
       If the moon is made of cheese

   Is there something somewhere far out there
       that just might be lactose-free

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where did 
you go

though
i don't

drink
milk

but i have
a carton

with your
picture

on the
side but

you are not
missing

i'm just
missing

you...

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Astonishing!
Brie cheese develops
Each fungus. 
Giving Humor in
Just knowing
Lactose might never
Openly penetrate,
Quickly.
Respectfully,
Some tummies
Underwent very
Weary x-rays,
Yesterday,
Zealously....

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where there's
a will there's
a way but
far far
away
in a
land

i'm lactose
intolerant
so not a
land of
milk but
definitely
honey

i want to
squeeze
the glue
that oozes
from out you 
and seal it 

and
us with
a kiss...

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So hot  this drought
actress actless
active status

campus fratus
student madness
Kansas baptists
tactile stratus
plastic, mattress 
so hot, need drink
lactose liquid
fractus, cactus
gratis,  tractive
fractus, cactus
fastest  lactic
DRINKen cactus...

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Mama boy ...
that be me
Lactose weaned on nuturing apron strings,
tugging on uterine maternal instincts

Mama boy ...
always so needy
Taught spiritual hormonal wise sayings,
faithfully abide by those loving estrogen teachings

Mama boy ...
Father said that was me,
and I’m just like my daddy — 
Splitting image   ...   umbilical unique...

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how lovingly precious
so timelessly sweet 
the cooing and drinking  
of a suckling baby 
with milk in little hands

makes me want to 
reach out to grab
this dairy lactose belly hurting treat
so as to pour it all in
my morning coffee

but the baby is just on TV
and i don't drink coffee 
and milk just doesn't like me  

so now you know 
one of my lactose fantasies...

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I sit entranced
as the shadows danced
…around me


I left the Buddha
outside in the falling snow
			…I gave him my hat


The tree tilts
The snowman wobbles
		         ….the wind laughs


The neighbor’s dog
Peed on our snowman
I told the kids
    …“he’s not potty trained.”


I wonder
If Santa likes
Sugar, lactose and gluten free
…COOKIES?????


John G. Lawless
©12/5/2022...

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Big red letters taunt the girl with the pink hair and nails
She can not leave
She can not stay
She just wants to go away
But trapped like a mouse in a maze 
She'll never find the cheese
She isn't allowed to eat it anyway
She is lactose intolerant
Bitter feelings make her face sour
She is loud in her discontent
She brings about her own disgrace
She loses her dignity
No reprieve, no trace...

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Milk sacks here,
Milk sacks there,
Milk sacks now
Are everywhere.
Milk sacks right,
Milk sacks left,
Be they big,
Or be they small,
Heaven knows
I’ve seen them all
When on the streets
They point at me
And seem to hate
Their cotton shields.
Free lactose for all alive!
Oh my! How very kind.
Here is some bread,
Who’s got a cup?
I’ll have a squeeze
To go with those.
Someone please
Clear the crowded streets
Before we all get breast-fed!...

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Powerful tyrannic regimes, lovely sky, thunder
Eating doritos, ignoring culture
I'iz fat, I'iz lazy
Yet I previal, for power, wealth and fame.
I grow like a sunflower, flying through a Maserati.
Parked $20,000 luxury, beat'nic
$150k salary, a traditional rampage
What'O I say, it is funny, I can envision but breath like a pro.
Jump-shoot, aye, to my basket for basketball
I am evident to live with ...
Jump start skid, it is a lactose and tolarant premis...

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I have had this fear.
It started as a rattle.
I would rather not self-diagnose-
worry my afro kinks straight.
I let it pass breezily.

In my room of metaphors
I closed the door, shut 
out the attitudes of reality:
Bold, beautiful, young, and restless.
I wasn't mindful of her,

She and you, or us.
Our contact disassembling, just contract...
tempers like daggers over lactose.
"I'm unavailable!?" because you were 
penning soliloquies for the stage....

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