Short Monoxide Poems

A lady who heard her husband had died
was charged by the police with homicide.
	I’m hoping, she said, it was
	the faulty brakes or the exhaust.
If neither, then the carbon monoxide....

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Smokeless inhales hurt.
I cough tar on my shirt.
As my black lungs breathe,
Shrilling exhales wheeze.

Cabrona
Falls me
Down to
My knees.

The nicotine cracks
My will.
My composure
Spills.

I want 
This.
I must 
Have this.

I sink
Into
The brink
Of madness....

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My head will explode,
Or so I’m told,
The world is going to end,
Carbon monoxide in our lungs,
Excommunication-
From all that is good,
This is the end,
Or so I’m told,
The world will rain with reign of horrors,
Displaced in a world of our own desires,
Life lovely so lost....

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ACROSTIC-
Water



W here be it liquid not solid
A rising fluids flow
T raveling through mountains hills and valleys
E  from the air, clouds and lands
R aveling, misty mystic Dihydrogen monoxide H2O's



9/27/19
Written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©...

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Mighty cloud in the sky.
Purple, orange, must ask why ?
Smoke stack glory, over the hill.
Sex life went - that pill.
Oxygen mask, token the thrill.
Went to church, GOD cried.
Smog enveloped the temple wide.
Many cars upon the ground.
Monoxide wonder feeling sound.
Vomit stench, deep breath now.
Doctor said, "FARM WITH COWS".

from my poem book DREAMS...

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Chain smoke until
I'm in care of the CO.
There's one left, still.
I smoke it really slow.
"It's the end," I anticipate
As the last inch evaporates.

I can't get
Over it;
It's over before 
I know it.
Butt, I can't quit.
I'm possessed with this 
Obsession; I'm addicted.

My lungs have oxygen,
Yet I'm suffocating inside.
I can't breathe again
Without my 'noxide....

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without support
silent echoes and rumours
'did i hear that?'
tracing invisible paths 
through insubstantial material
no kindness
no direction

fatally incorrigible 
from fear 
walking is sitting
running is lying down
the passage of time ceases
i drift
like carbon monoxide

slow burning 
self-destructive
to one
to zero
without matter
without life;

without you.

r.thom'10...

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The steady pull
of temptation--
a tease on
my resolution.

When I can sleep, 
I take what dreams 
afford me.
In these dreams,
my 'noxide comes
to ward me.

Her smoke is an invitation.
my conscience
falls for
the con science
of my imagination.
I give in
and reality spins.

Between the sleeps, 
I lie in sanity. 
I wonder:
Did I give into 
my humanity?
did I'd err?
Is that
smoke in the air?...

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volcano

Huge explosives of nascent hydrogen
twelve hundred square feet explosive house
in companionship of a gentle woman loaded with gelatin
in liquid nitroglycerin's  warm touch
sweet mouth of potassium cyanide.

A lively life; Chloroform
covered fragrant heart door.
In the sea of happiness, in the stream of dark red blood
crowded with carbon monoxide and arsenic
Life is such a horrible beautiful volcano....

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Remember the feeling of all seasons.
Balmy wind, cloudy skies, brisk walks, snow, rain.
A fire burning near the icy pond,
skates crunching, scratching, clicking on the ice.
Bundled shadows slip along in moon light;
bellowing puffs of smoke filled monoxide.
Embers cooling, burning, burning brightly.
Hot ashes follow a dark smoky trail,
rising through clouds, above the icy pond,
vanishing in the frigid winter night....

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O flamingo, your pink is fading.
Pick up the spirulina, it was caste-based.
It hits there, where it hurts more.

You were chasing, standing on one leg
salt was dwindling in the lake.
The stink unlike you is going to stay.

I am learning the hard way, the
blue island of ice is staying with a thread.
A sweet flesh comes from the mountain from other end.

Whose gold was melting now?
Sucking the milk tinged with blood?
Breasts are shrivelling in monoxide.


SATISH VERMA...

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