The Charm Offensive Extrapolation
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I wasn't as surprised
as I should’ve been—
grayed avatar,
dead links,
cached titles still looking
to lead somewhere.
And here I am,
already down
a cell phone—
with FedEx in no hurry,
no...
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Categories:
sociability, culture, hyperbole, writing,
Form: Free verse
Magnanimity Manifested
...Midst his playfulness,
I could find gracefulness;
Midst pugnacity,
Great amicability;
Bravery wrapped in fear,
Foolishness enveloped cheer;
He chased rats and cats,
And humans he thought burgl...
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Categories:
sociability, dog,
Form: Free verse
Sociability
...Wearing masks in check-out today
Computer glitch meant delay
Thought I'd strike up a conversation
Chase the boredom away
My first target looked at me strange
OK, his right, didn't think ...
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Categories:
sociability, friendship, social, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Showing All the Signs of Being Neanderthals
...I see them most days now in the street,
Neanderthal look-a-likes,
Who only grunt when I give them a hearty good day,
Bent double over their phone,
Gripping it like a prize bone
Bearing a sharp r...
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Categories:
sociability, analogy, angst, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Burlesque
My Amphetamine
...My AMPHETAMINE
Buba-bababuba whhaat zup, My AMPHETAMINE
I need I crave I have a need for speed;
Doctor can you tell me whz wrong wit me;
My seizures are encased in restlessness, an...
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Categories:
sociability, analogy, anxiety, confusion, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Atlantis Soup Convention
...At the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas,
Souper poets are drinking Bahama Mamas.
Casino games are set aside every night
as Soupers take the stage to read poems they write.
Ladies dress ...
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Categories:
sociability, community, friendship,
Form: Couplet
Friendship What Does It Play In Your Life--
...In this role I have an relationship
In this role also a just close relationship
There’s an attachment, mutual attachment
There’s an association and I want nothing in return for it
In this ro...
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Categories:
sociability, appreciation, best friend, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
Why
...Why would you want to be an artist?
Why would you want to have to create places in your mind because you can't handle real life?
Why would you want to create people in your head because nothing eve...
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Categories:
sociability, art, confusion, depression, humanity,
Form: Prose
Palace Boy
...in the castle, it smells like acid
it makes my nose bleed, and burns my skin
it's okay, though, we live with it
you love your future, you love your minions
you call them cool like they're n...
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Categories:
sociability, allegory, angst, class, community,
Form: Lyric
For Proliferation of the Immigrated Soul
...FOR PROLIFERATION OF THE IMMIGRATED SOUL
There are those people who would not leave their country no matter how the trouble comes.
There are those people who leave the same regardless of ...
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Categories:
sociability, america, celebration, confidence, courage,
Form: Free verse
Dark Wondering
...Will it all go?
Decades of sociability,
dancing to Glenn Miller's music,
the funhouse laugh,
You have your mother's smile?
Temporary lapses
Robbing all norma...
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Categories:
sociability, anxiety, care, caregiving, daughter,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Perspective of Alabaster Scrooge
...THE PERSPECTIVE OF ALABASTER SCROOGE
In modern English people time, when the world was full of eminent joy, there lived a man of prestige who was totally the opposite of anyone who strives...
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Categories:
sociability, culture, humanity, i am,
Form: Imagism
Nick From Italy
...He asked for directions
It was a train ride and a walk that mirrored mine
We were apart on the train
My minimal sociability
We met in the roar of passengers
A second offer of navigational help w...
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Categories:
sociability, friendship,
Form: Narrative
Tomorrow Becomes Today
...Tomorrow comes today when laptop leads time astray
as we forget ourselves as news junkies or by studying celebrity,
as if we miss anything we will take the rap as though any
information is all; ...
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Categories:
sociability, society,
Form: Free verse
Shoeless Muse
...I have endeavored to retreat behind common experience
Finding salvation far from transcendental
Happily plotting meaning as if some wisdom was
Possessed, only to be shown through the veil of
An i...
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Categories:
sociability, angst, faith, happiness, introspection,
Form: Free verse
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