Bad Genes
...My third wife is angry now, she knows that I cheated.
But I like life on the edge, so I told her to pack up and beat it.
Then I walked in Santa Monica, a man was lying in the path
He was in obviou...
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Categories:
swab, addiction, character, drug, fate,
Form: Lyric
Trade-Off
...Is it worth it when you travel
But you wind up getting sick?
Seems like Covid and vacations,
In conjunction, somehow click.
After flying home from Paris,
People sneezing on the plane,
I felt ...
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Categories:
swab, sick, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Happiness vs Misery
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Written: February 29, 2024
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In a sprawling sward of auburn swab
A seraphic sight soaked in dew at dawn
dazed distress and dust-laden air
delic...
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Categories:
swab, analogy, angst, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Option
...
If you can't become a creative quill
to write a poem of my joy and happiness,
be an empathy eraser of solace
to swab the scribble of my sorrow and pain.
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Categories:
swab, analogy, sympathy,
Form: Verse
Distinction Gone Into Extinction
...Where does one find True Extinction
Long gone into sad extinction?
Know I some doubly soiled magistrates
Clean for their mansions with balustrades,
A wife-beater philanthropist
Who would not p...
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Categories:
swab, career, cry, image, people,
Form: Rhyme
Torturers Go For Victim
...They had for him come in a cab:
Mister Sabinus for short, Sab,
A guy with the gift of the gab
To receive wounds or the wounds grab...
If only he'd leave fast - A Crab!
He'd prevent what handk...
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Categories:
swab, bullying, character, death,
Form: Rhyme
Miracle of Life
...I'm drawing plans for a fictional realm,
Insightful brinks and a sacrifice-themed helm.
Smoothness clings to a grip, then rots away,
Her ruby eyes are shadowed by a torn sky.
Cold...
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Categories:
swab, analogy, conflict, life,
Form: Rhyme
Bird Footles
...Winged Blind Beauty
White swan -
sight gone
A Macaw's Worth
Parrot
Merit
Turkey Oblivious to Thanksgiving Fate
Perky
Turkey
The Odd One
Quirky
Turkey
Present the Roasted B...
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Categories:
swab, bird,
Form: Footle
Swabbing My Nose
...Swab
inside
my nose
presses, swirls. Twinges,
twitches, runs like it’s bleeding.
I wait in lobby, till rest home screener
smiles. “Negative! Good to go!”
Grandmother, I only
do this
for
y...
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Categories:
swab, grandparents,
Form: Fibonacci
Domestic Travel
...To escape from further quarantine
To escape from further boredom
To escape from further Nucleic Acid Test
People prefer domestic travel
Instead of foreign travel
People believe
Less risk mor...
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Categories:
swab, god, life, people, sun,
Form: Free verse
2035 the End - Cop26 I
...The old fashioned monsoons
Meant for the flowers and cacti of Arizona California
And New Mexico
Have fled those deserts and dusty reservoirs
To find a new friend instead in Michigan
Up here in...
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Categories:
swab, death, earth, environment, future,
Form: Free verse
Mr Ratman
...Hello,
my name is Mr. Ratman
I've been injected twice
with an experimental vaccine
get nasal swabbed three times a week
i wear a rag on my face consistently
i get temperature screened
get sym...
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Categories:
swab, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Praise Be To the Lord Russia Has Found a Vaccine
...Breaking news this just in,
Russian medics have just discovered
a vaccine or cure for Covid-19
1 sprits of Novichok
1 cup if tea laced with Polonium - 210
Followed by a weekend mini cit...
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Categories:
swab, slam,
Form: Free verse
Waiting For My Covid Test
...If I Die, Bury Me With Pencils
My sense of smell is gone.
Acetone is empty air.
The cough
attempts to cut the mucus from my lungs,
expell it from my lungs.
The fibers of the swab penetrat...
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Categories:
swab, angst, death,
Form: I do not know?
Do Not Swear Around My Parents
...It started early for me - using words sailors are supposed to know
My parents had no idea where I got them.
I figured it was my last lifetime
When I was a pirate.
I could cuss with gusto at an...
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Categories:
swab, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
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