Let's play a game of telephone...
crepitant tongues converse
overly dramatic tendencies
incoherently concrete
awakening preoccupation
a train flying off the tracks
chaotic clumps crust up
dissonance distended
indecorous reception
viral instigator
I dont want to sift
sterilize rhetoric
abrasive to the ear.
A game of telephone...let's play.
Categories:
sterilize, emotions, feelings, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Mrs M was a teacher with a clean desk
there was only one pencil in there
it was always sharpened
and a pink eraser that looked brand new
I never saw an ink pen
the top of her desk had a small plaque
with her name starting with Mrs. of course
Even though she was divorced
She never wanted the students to know about it
We all did
She was fastidiously neat and fussy
staying late to sterilize desks and seats
she inadvertently taught me one big lesson
I never wanted to be like her
She was too punctilious; cleanliness was her world.
Students were probably twenty-six on her priority list.
Categories:
sterilize, teacher,
Form: Free verse
The past is not but nuisance
When a lie is laid to bear.
They weed our sacred garden
As they pop up everywhere.
I double down on their existence
Knowing repetition is the key.
Sterilize a lie one hundred times...
Feeble minds will soon believe.
The End
Categories:
sterilize, character,
Form: Rhyme
Liquor license for my rubbing alcohol
Fumes and vapors have me squinting like a mole
Open my window, let the wind blow through
A bunch of spiders came and crawled right to me
Shouting and stomping like a maniac
I squashed them all, covered in goo
of black
Looked through myself, right at the mirror
Who should really be the fearer?
Do good people kill spiders?
Mop up the viscera left on the floor
Some rubbing alcohol make the stink no more
I left it there for over a week
The time has come to be a clean freak
Lock the door, sit on the floor, and breathe in
Sterilize my mind and sanitize my skin
Guilt is a feeling, shames a disorder
But chemicals, they are my warder
Do bad people realize it?
Categories:
sterilize, confusion, death, evil, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Hymn to an Art-o-matic Laundromat
by Michael R. Burch
after Richard Thomas Moore’s “Hymn to an Automatic Washer”
O, terrible-immaculate
ALL-cleansing godly Laundromat,
where cleanliness is next to Art
—a bright Kinkade (bought at K-Mart),
a Persian rug (made in Taiwan),
a Royal Bonn Clock (time zone Guam)—
embrace my ass in cushioned vinyl,
erase all marks: ****, v-g-nal,
penile, inkspot, red wine, dirt.
O, sterilize her skirt, my shirt,
my skidmarked briefs, her padded bra;
suds-away in your white maw
all filth, the day’s accumulation.
Make us pure by INUNDATION.
Published by The Oldie, where it was the winner of a poetry contest. Keywords/Tags: hymn, art, America, laundry, laundromat, washer, dryer, appliances, clean, cleaning, cleanliness, clothes, clothing, underwear, god, godly, godliness, water, baptism, inundation, sonnet, analogy
This poem was inspired by the incongruence of discovering "works of art" while doing laundry at a laundromat with coin-operated washers and dryers. I was reminded of the experience while reading Richard Moore’s “Hymn to an Automatic Washer.”
Categories:
sterilize, america, analogy, art, baptism,
Form: Sonnet
How can you say that you love God when you hate your neighbor,
In whom you see every day?
Love makes your dreams come truth
When nobody else may be able to see,
Let your dreams be seen
Let it not die with doubt
That is not what it’s all about.
The broken-winged of an eagle
Keep it down to the ground
Not able to fly at a high level,
Never able to see what is ahead
Where it will be able to avoid trouble.
Without love, your dreams will never come true
Like a plant in a desert field without water
No true grow will last
It will wither away
For lack of water to stay.
Water in a river without an outlet
Is like being in a bottle not sterilize
Not a fit drank to consume
A dream without fulfilling in not
Fit to be thought of
Goes to the grave unused.
Then how can I say I love God when I hate my neighbor,
In whom I see every day?
Categories:
sterilize, age, beautiful, birth, birthday,
Form: Blank verse
Still is the night and dark is the day.
Marked are the chosen to show you the way.
Evil unleashed on the world a game..
Survival of the fittest the virus to blame.
Like dodging a bullet but no where to run..
Secluding yourself and trusting no one.
Lock your doors and stay inside..
To protect your life you must wait and hide.
Cleanse your body and sterilize your home..
Don't let anyone in for the virus to roam.
Always looking for its next victim to host..
It will cross the country from coast to coast!
Be strong, stay healthy, there is no set date..
All you can do is be patient and wait.
It's a Pandemic, its Global and its looking for you..
Keep your distance, stay safe, it's all you can do!
Categories:
sterilize, anxiety, care, death, death
Form: Rhyme
I sat in the parking lot of a red brick Baptist church, and read the words typed in small Arial font. Pondering my path from a past of battle torn want. But these were not the words of God, nor of a missionary’s calling of good deeds, spreading the word of some chosen deity. Though I needed hands to be laid on me, and prayed over for the salvation of my soul, because the words I read shred me to pieces from a whole. I wondered if I could be as strong as the building before me, and what it stood to symbolize; possibly sterilize my fragile state of mind. No, I didn't come here in search of God, to confess my sins, or hoping to find the light within. I only pulled over to read the words you sent to me, asking for forgiveness, begging to be freed from all the hurt. Then I thought, maybe it should be you sitting here, in the parking lot of this red brick Baptist church.
Categories:
sterilize, divorce, emotions, heartbreak, lost
Form: Prose
Truly there is a bit of craziness in my heart’s mind
As she colors people beautiful
Even when they are mean
Fierce
And
Unrealistically
Angry
At me, but will not tell me why.
Feeling unsafe, and insecure
Painting people ahead in my thought’s brains
Expecting something that is insanely
Fantastical
And
Maniacally
Combative
Seeing a
Horrible ending
Due to lack of
Communication.
Able to methodically
Sterilize and homogenize
Other’s irrational ugly
Self-defeating thoughts
Yet stubbornly holding
On to my own,
Making myself nuts.
Categories:
sterilize, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Truly there is a bit of craziness in my heart’s mind
As she colors people beautiful
Even when they are mean
Fierce
And
Unrealistically
Angry
At me, but will not tell me why.
Feeling unsafe, and insecure
Painting people's reactions ahead in my thought’s brains
Expecting something that is insanely
Fantastical
And
Maniacally
Combative
Seeing a
Horrible ending
Due to lack of
Communication.
Able to methodically
Sterilize and homogenize
Other’s irrational ugly
Self-defeating thoughts
Yet stubbornly holding
On to my own,
Making myself nuts.
Categories:
sterilize, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Sterilize the enterprise...
Pro-rate your eloquence,
state sorrowfully,
then engage-
every page,
wondrous rapturous,
bashful captures,
slanty' cases and raging races...
Be hotter than road modern!
Beget the racers in the Stallium!
I am raving the major,
they take away the meed and complacent-
I am the smasher and head Caser!
Take me to the ancient hollow that was never endangered!
Categories:
sterilize, anxiety, class, fathers day,
Form: Free verse
Overanalyze and criticize, demoralize and ostracize
Modern pundits legitimize their vicious exercise
Scrutinize and standardize, compartmentalize and cannibalize
Wizards of efficiency synchronize, initialize and circumcise
Demobilize and paralyze, stigmatize and de-humanize
Westernized pols, their constituents balkanize and polarize
Trivialize and miniaturize, standardize and sterilize
Thought-police priesthoods evangelize and moralize
Why can't they fraternize and socialize?
Why don't they harmonize and compromise?
Entry in Rhyme Battle: Xi Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Juli-Michelle
Categories:
sterilize, america, anger, how i
Form: Rhyme
There can be only one color, white
Others would cause confusion
Light beams have certain properties
To move this process along
To burn the soul completely
To sterilize the imperfections
Being perfect has advantages too
Humans once were white
Extermination was inevitable
Androids found them to be not quite white enough
Termination was the obvious solution
Pure white machines walk the night with eighteen feet
Melt the imperfections with enlightenment
Nature must be reclaimed, returned
For no other reason than to keep the peace
There can only be white once and for all
Being white is the law
The law is right
Order is the only reason
White is white for a reason
Categories:
sterilize, appreciation, color, education, endurance,
Form: Free verse
I plead the fifth!
Rhymes with no sniff
Nosed clogged Ben Gay spade with no shifts
Pace makers tripped wires
Remit
Remake takes patents to skin drifts
Power ranged a game with low lifts
Tires rims shine made drift
Blinds closed with long sticks
Brick houses with no bricks
Framed same found day shun with steel trip
Wires hang dancers give
Beauty baked lashes give rip
Maybeline lined lip
Color shadow followed him
Made created a land with give gifts
Transparent pulled out of bounds balls bounce do drifts
Out strike title stripped
Sterilize steroids with no stick
Big boned with mild tones sounds
Without Biz
Bone Thug great hit
Smashed charts with no
Ozzie remake with slick
Hiding lights with strike back
Big rims Cadillac
Heavy Chevy comes back
Nova stars mobilized
Ride click tight riding high
Bean pies French fries
Filled with no lies
Mouth covered
Say nothing
Snitch out
Been made!
Categories:
sterilize, allusion,
Form: Lyric
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Use separate cutting boards for meat and poultry: Don’t use wooden cutting boards. Bacteria can live in the grooves. Sterilize cutting boards in the dishwasher. Consider buying separate colors for meat and fresh foods like veggis and bread.
Wash and disinfect sponges and towels regularly: Launder in a bleach solution.
Avoid cross-combination by washing all surfaces (including your hands) that have been in contact with raw meats, poultry or eggs.
Thaw meats or poultry in the refrigerator, not in the kitchen counter: If you must thaw foods quickly, use cool running water or the microwave
Do not put food on a plate that was used for raw meat or poultry: If you bring your raw steaks, chicken, or burgers to the grill on a platter, get a fresh platter for a final product
Mix foods with utensils, not your hands: Keep hands and utensils away from your mouth, nose and hair
Categories:
sterilize, food, people,
Form: List
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