Short Voucher Poems

would see impostor
who had been with poor posture
paid for with a voucher...

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bluish-green needles
raindrops cling like ornaments
pre-Christmas season
red-white-blue Veteran’s Day line
and poet-pearls on cedar

11/11/2022...

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gotta stop 
gotta go
homer said he had a housing voucher
i'm sleeping by the river tonight
come and see me
we have to quit this junk
said the 19 year old
pregnant girl
then we get more junk
and it starts over again
and we get more junk
the needle kills another friend
and we get more junk
and it happens over again...

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She danced upon my sleepy knife-edge
Rem sleep concealed; my hollow tin ledge
Was the naked girl who stole my show

Labanotation echoed her tarred shamed knees
Free falling from grace, cumulating fees 
Have every my gutter pushed so low?

Integument tally, a dollar per pound
Rumoured lies within; no truth found
Flesh voucher paid in Bordeaux

So I flickered in though
Scar tissue hand did plough
My poured soda fountain flow...

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Life belongs to dreams
Dreams belong to ecstasy
Love's alike voucher or lottery schemes'
that's lost somewhere into its own fantasy
The world wants to remove its pain;
Heart needs to escape heartaches,
Although, even the clouds floated 'pon rain
Yes, success comes after poor heartbreaks
Live as long as you want to;
Breathe as much as you have to,
The day you're in ain't gonna come back
Yes, the dreams kiss an ecstasy with pleasure, true....

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Waiting for the final ticket out,
  I would write that ending word

And bid goodbye to all I’d said
  both ignored—and often heard

I asked the conductor about the fare,
  he said “How much can you pay”

As I held my pen, three letters  
  came together—so arranged

A moment lingered, a lifetime flashed,
  the past and future caught

And with voucher punched I climbed aboard
  stamped YES—salvation bought

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)...

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