Short Way The Cookie Crumbles Poems

on garibaldi's retreat - the cookie crumbles...

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A cookie crumbles
But is still just as sweet as
The one unbroken....

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Because she likes mystery and wants to imagine her own story before the world 
rudely interrupts

And as the cookie crumbles the world rumbles its forceful future among her frail dreams

So she leaves everything as is so her dreams are able to live

The mind is only as strong as the cracks from time

p.s. so crack the cookie to see your fortune…...

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Thousand utensils
cookie crumbles on the floor
Enough garbage to feed Rhode Island
Relaxing sauna for dead poultry

Cookie crumbles on the floor
Each lunch lady’s ear is in tune with the system
Relaxing sauna for dead poultry
Keeps it fresh

Each lunch lady’s ear is in tune with the system
Enough garbage to feed Rhode Island
Keeps it fresh
Thousand utensils

(2007)...

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The past is always perfect
The future, always best
The present, we, neglect
We speak of happiness

We talk of better days
And wait for better times
We wish our lives away
Then find, we can’t rewind

We look back on our moments
With a biased recollection 
Forgetting all components 
A fraction of a section

But this is how it goes
The way the cookie crumbles
A truth, I’ve come to know
A fact, on which, I stumbled...

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in an unfortunate circumstance 
full moon glacier kingo bulova green
With envy lazy lizard magenta 
Sea serpent stepping stones aplenty
 Quarry dawns foggy harbor rolling hilll
 an unfortunate circumstance 
Looking glass boundary
 Waters Plymouth Rock tornadoes 
Cookie crumbles melted ice cream soda
banana splits at the deep end
Such an anomaly an unfortunate circumstance? 

3/31/29
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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