Short Stretcher Poems

'Unity!' preached President Joe
                                    ~ whose nose then grew like Pinocchio's...

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A potato layer bake
and sausage stretcher
Evaporated milk with
left-over pudding
Sugar sandwiches-
A bitter
Squeeze !...

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I was turning on a stretcher,
I was injured,
I was among friends,
I caught sight of a statue,
High in the sky,
Most  of the casing had  been eroded away,
And I said, 'you can see the light of yesterday.'...

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pain
doubles her over
sweating
on the ER stretcher
bright lights and too much
noise
intensifies
misery
weeks of pain
like toothpicks
lost inside
patiently
the nurse pushes pain medication
into the IV
she cannot make out the words
for all the flurry...

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See him on the field 
Lying... Lying limp.
Pray
Bringing rivals together
Waiting... waiting for something
Pray
No reaction comes
Stare... Stare at nothing
Pray
He's moved his hand
God... God help him
Pray
Stretcher comes for him
Listen... Listen for something
Pray
Pray
Pray


Texas v. Texas A&M  Thanksgiving 2009....

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I looked at him sitting there
With his head back in a stare
He had a meal and sat right back
And died that way as a matter of fact

In a shack near the beach
He built it when youth was within his reach
And I wondered at his last thought
When his heart gave out in its retort

We placed him on the stretcher then
The rigor mortis without a bend
And a sheet across his face
Into the ambulance for his last race.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Spooked by a two headed snake,
a double of a living person squirms.
A moral crisis comes out
of a cage.  

The private space is violated 
and bloodbath of robins start-
to understand the unrest.
Antimatter will keep the mystery alive.

A distorted truth falls in your lap
like a figurine asking your pardon.
The dogma lies in mess. Chronology 
moves forward for future dates.

This is not unusual. A wounded
lion has a sanguinity
of exactitude, lying on
a stretcher.  



Satish Verma...

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