Short Loudspeaker Poems

Bridge across planets
Loudspeaker to universe
Can you hear my heart?
 


for Gareth's Contest: "Familiarity Unknown"...

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His name came over my loudspeaker
And I gripped the nearest arm
Screaming inside 
He was all but forgotten
Just tucked away for the past years
And searching for his face
I found him, number twelve
His face is the same
Even from a mile away
I could never forget that smile...

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Police’s loudspeaker projected all over the neighborhood.
“IF YOU ARE HARBORING A FUGITIVE, TURN 
HIM IN RIGHT AWAY! THERE WILL BE NO
PUNISHMENT IF THE PERPETRATOR COMES 
OUT IN THE NEXT HOUR!”

“Do you think they mean me?” my guest asked.
“Doubtful,” I told her. “You are invisible to
non-believers, right?”

Stegosaurus Faerie breathed a sigh of relief....

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“Floods! Floods!! 
Quick! Quick,”
Blared the loudspeaker:
“Just five minutes to flee.” 

Mobiles? ATM cards?
Jewels? Documents? 
To hell with such!

Gathering the kids,
Picking up whatever the hands could hold 
They all fled.

Blood…blood… O+
Quick! Quick!!
Oh, but the religion?
To hell with it!

To be—that is the question!
Religion? 
Nonsense!

*****...

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There is a masked bandit in the produce aisle.
This went over the loudspeaker in the grocery store.
It was my neighbor Whitey, who wants to hide his smile.
He has bad teeth, maybe not even one any more.

I use Covid as the excuse, he told me one time when I thought to ask.
I told him I would love him no matter what,
They coppers came in and demanded to know about the mask.
The police left him alone, I was glad of that!...

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"Bluestocking"

Blue blew in 
like the truth
in many different
shades 

one tried 
immersing in 
shades of shadow
but the light was louder

Blue blew in 
like a neon sign
flashing its underside
like a stocking’s ladder

the terminal 
loudspeaker 
for departure 
was like a shot 

of Uranian Blue Piñaq
arriving not soon 
enough, 
knocked back

some kind of 
heady celebration

exits 
arrivals

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
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