Uncross Poems

Nobody

...How much are you worth? 
Would you sell your soul? 
For a pocket full of gold?
 Did you know at birth? 
What lines would you cross or uncross if you could? 
I'm nobody 
are you nobody too?...

RESCIND

...Undo the past, unbreak the trust,
Unsay the words spoken in disgust.
Unhear the song the cuckoo sang,
Unsee the places we’ve never been,
Untread the paths we’ve yet to begin.

Undo the promise ...

How a Perfunctory Poet Punctuates a Piece

...A period here. a question mark there?
A handful of commas,,,tossed in the air
To fall all willy-nilly but he doesn't care.
Then he closes his eyes so he never sees,
And does it again with apostro...

Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix

...Juvenilia: Early Poems IX

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.

Shock
by Michael R. Burch

It was early in the...

Burn, Ovid

...Burn, Ovid
by Michael R. Burch

“Burn Ovid”—Austin Clarke

Sunday School,
Faith Free Will Baptist, 1973:
I sat imagining watery folds
of pale silk encircling her waist.
Explicit sex was the ...

Where Does the Butterfly Go

...Where Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch

for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba

Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones...

Tight Jockeys

...Looking outside, all I see is blue skies
Nothing but a fantastic feeling fills my thighs
This world is amazing
Causes spirits araising
But my Jockeys are so tight, can't uncross my eyes<>

Fulcrum

...Fulcrum 

Listen to me sweetheart.
It is easy to be a fool.
It requires no intelligence at all.
You will always listen to those who speak
Words you personally want to hear.
You will always ign...

Tight Jockeys

...Looking outside, all I see is blue skies
Nothing but a fantastic feeling fills my thighs
This world is amazing
Causes spirits a-raising
But my Jockeys are so tight, can't uncross my eyes<...

Cat 5

...I saw a cat quartet within my dodgy dream,
Sorta started worryin' that I'd gone off the beam,
Really began to wonder if my mind was gettin' weak,
They had their own language that only they could s...

Your Eggrolls Are Dry

...Your eggrolls aren't dry.
Your eggrolls aren't wet.
You say they're just right.
like it's some sort of threat.

You hand me an eggroll
along with a plum sauce.
I can tell you're still mad
as ...

No Murdering

...1.Virtue does not-kill; committing 
yields other sins.
2.Sharing, guarding, available bread,
succeeds collected wisdom.
3.Better not-slaying first,unique
truthfulness comes next.
4.Holy-books’ ...

Glory of Deity

...1.A, cardinal of alphabets
deity is pre-eminent.
2.What use thou learned?
unless venerating divine
3.Captives of his flower-heart
long live on earth.
4.Devotee of fair nature
never faces hazar...

Uncross

...Uncross your eyes and stop thinking about it they told you in third grade  but you did not cry you had a faster mind  to stop and think about that running sneaker across the gravel and how you though...

Good Ol' Triple-Six and the Eternal Drive-By - Part 2

...- and, anyway, who breaks wind over double-M, a. k. a. Manson,

Marilyn?

I'll give a ride on my razor any day to

The-Second-Prime-of-Nine-to-the-Sixth,

who was around long before CD's, DVD's, MTV,...

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