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Tulip Larry

...

   Tulip Larry was being groomed for the role of fairy.
   He required a lot of assistance,
   Since the form letter discovered his existence.
   Received in the mail during a winter of hail.
...

Blue

...Blue,
like a whisper behind glass,
keeps its secrets folded in saltwater.
It doesn’t shout—
just lingers
in the air between questions.

There are days
when blue stretches its long limbs
acro...

There are more nos than yeses

...There are more nos than yeses
when my wife goes to Talbots to try on new dresses.
Each dress has to fit her just so
that only her best features show.
And the rest she leaves up to wild-ass guesse...

I’m Going To Offend You

...I’m going to offend you
I will
I might
I won’t
be able to help myself
   help yourself
to my apology
      my diatribe
be my tribe
   I sign
so you can hear me
                     out
do...

Good Morning Chigger

...
Beyond the curtain – past the pane
   There lies a world I thought I knew.
The knowing and belief now being slain
   And the chill begins to lay the dew.

Once solid steps seem unsure and falt...

Hidden Letters

...Shall I stay in this place and wither away and watch my youthful days fade away, shall I bear the agony of the sun and feel the cold wind moving in my bones when the day is done, the stagnant air fro...

Look Alive --as you're dying inside--

...I’ve no one to talk to and it’s bringing me down
Can’t be myself so I try on someone else
But the outfit never seems to fit
Too tight
Too suffocating
And I can’t breathe
Makes my waist look sma...

No Expectations

...Can a song be so sad it becomes beautiful?

A record listened to with such incessance
Its needle scratches and wobbles
Becomes desperate new notes for the melody?
The song unrecognizable to the ...

Transformative Attire

...Sometimes, just a small spark of empathy
Can brighten up another’s mind to see
The value of love and understanding
To lift the weight of negativity
For darker thoughts and doubts debilitate
And ...

Will You come

...If I call you will you come? Or will you wait until the day is done? If I call you will you come or will you say that the heaven is dining with the sun?

I hope that you will agree to the miracle t...

Crustacean Mentality

...For every glow of your shine, there will always be others who try to extinguish your flame than to learn how to glow on their own.  

Considering all resources that they spent trying to extinguish ...

From Yesterday

...Try on for trying.
Cry on for crying.
Die on for dying.
Fear not to fear.

Hunger’s deep burning.
Awake but still yearning.
Stones left o’re turning.
Hold to what’s dear.

Like the dew fall...

The last hula hoop

...Let me have the last look at you before you do the final “hula hoop.”
Let me have the final look at you before try on your new shoes. Some sizes just don't fit; you have got to hold on to the grit. ...

The Black Fridge

...We put things in the fridge,
To keep them very cold,
But some things in our fridge,
Are getting very old.

Like dear Uncle Ted,
By the loaf of bread,
He’s been there,
Since he last went to be...

Life, an adventure unknown

...I

Ah what thrill’s life if guts we’ve to get lost!
To lose way once in a while is no sour sauce—
But way to live. Lose way haply pay cost,
A stone that goes about gathers good moss.
Let challe...

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