Short Outmoded Poems

useless she goaded 
                  his libido eroded 
                 feeling outmoded 
        two blue pills locked and loaded 
         you beast ~ payload exploded


By
David Kavanagh...

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Out of kilter and out of time,
Born in the 40's and now in his prime,
Saddened by a world that's passed him by,
Outdated, outmoded and now not so spry,
Looking for comfort but there's none to be had,
Evenings are spent all alone in his 'pad',
Talking to walls that don't answer back,
Eyes, once so lively, now fade to black....

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Sometimes it's like a bloodletting
and the womb is the target.
Open your legs and let me be
sucked up into the bloodstream.
Come, we will walk hand in hand
down lighted streets 
as I construct an idealism more damning,
more hysterical, since sometimes I
feel infinitely outmoded, infinitely second hand.
It is so ludicrous now, I feel compelled to laugh....

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    Archaic, outmoded, 
      ‘gauche,’ obsolete

    O, the invective employed
      a lesser man would defeat

    Yet unintimidated, he held his ground
      for he knew his principle was sound

    Adam viewed the fish, the animals, the birds 
      (paired up so nicely, he perceived) 
    Then, whoosh! out rushed his shocking words

    'Please, for a partner with whom to conceive
       I request MY complement, a lady named Eve'
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I
refuse
to comply
with contests whose
requirements are nigh
impossible, amuse
the contest-setter with my
inadequate and bound-to-lose
creations. An old-school kind of guy,
I hold outmoded, prehistoric views:
am frankly somewhat disinclined to vie
with writers who (I’ll be blunt) abuse
the edicts handed from on high,
namely, poets pay their dues
(so call me due-or-die),
not with modern ruse,
but rather by
songs whose blues
defy
cues.




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