Short Vaseline Poems

Concrete keeps falling on my head
Imagine how painful that is wished I was dead 
With a little Vaseline
And a can of kidney beans
Rub gently and spend next two days in bed...

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Her panting 
Wheezing

Eyes, a second lid of Vaseline
Mouth gaping open

As if to scream out but
Nothing

Take your turn to clasp
For the last time

A last exhale
White as clean linen...

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Soon will be time to pay income tax
They don’t care if you E or send fax
The result is the same
You pay up ‘til you claim
You’re clean like by a dose of exlax


For Carolyn's "taxing times" contest...

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I've put the foil on my bedroom doorknob
and fastened rubber bands across the latch.
I've mixed Coca Cola with toothpaste and vaseline 
then poured the rest of the coke in the toilet.
I've drunk warm water and a shot of olive oil.
I'm tired; the bananas will have to wait til morning.
...

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As a new day breaks
and the robin wakes
my eyes are hazy
my mind is lazy
I ponder the point.
Again.
Again.
Stretching and yawning.
Hemming and hawing.
I ponder the point.
To love?
To learn?
To give?
To take?
Again.
Again.
So mundane.
Is there more?
A secret door?
Grasping vaseline knobs.
Quiet sobs.
Again.
Again.....

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The vix and the vaseline,
 got mixed up in the dark,
While whispering sweet nothings,
 with me kangaroo in park,
It was 1963 ole mate, 
nah wd40 didn't try,
With oohs n ohs a plenty,
Me aggots set to fry,
like a kangaroo dog climbing a post,
Till it gave up the bloody ghost,
Got up for tea n toast,
Nough to make a sand goanna cry??
Don          ....don't do it.......

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I found my wife's
Pin pals letter.
Wrote about
How he loved
Very, very much
And found it harum to be
Her lover amidst the turn all
Around him.
Said he'd make her
Lover gay
And he would be
Exposed among his
Christian peers
And then they
Could marry
And spend his
Money in paradise.
He used medicated
Vaseline
So that he could
Be seen human in
The light of god.
Who is the poet
All of us!...

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My anole’s brown;
Oops, now he’s changed to green!
What a little clown;
he’s nowhere to be seen.

Oops, now he’s changed to green,
says it calms him down.
So still and so serene,
doesn’t make a sound.

What a little clown;
he likes to make a scene.
He cavorts around
then dashes up the screen!

He’s nowhere to be seen:
camouflage renowned.
Slick as Vaseline:
I guess he went to town.

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Another Quadrilew, starting with 5/6/5/6 instead of 6/5/6/5...

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