Short Upholstered Poems

soon we shall all be free
of all upholstered costumes 
and all manners of miners' boots
that infect us with winter edema
and puff us up like flu troubled ostrich
to become angels again
In our cute adidas spikes ....

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Candle lit quarters..
bearing colorful carpet...
and his wooden chair.
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With a curved backrest, 
of somber reddish-brown wood;
upholstered green straw.
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and in his absence...
a lit candle takes his place:
...two modern novels.
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Vincent paint’s his muse,
in consistent loneliness...
...waiting for Gauguin.






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For Abe's Van Goh's of Van Gogh contest
the Painting is "Gauguin’s Chair"...

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Abstract algorithm. Brooding distraction, 
cleverly cloaked in digital fleece.
Enigma encoded. Like so many fireflies,
Hastening gauntly heavenward.
Juniper immolation.
Ides jaundiced light.
Kinetic kites, luminescent in the night. 
Milky Way mighty, northward pointing, 
Occidental wind opens, plumes rising.
Quickened quiet shroud.
Revelation.
Reincarnate.
Souls thin the veil.
Under the upholstered vault,
 xylem-charred waste,
Drawn to the yawning zodiac....

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