Uppers Poems

Hook, Line And Sinker

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Broad in the beam
not much of a looker
this crusty rust-bucket
of nuts screws and bolts
is a crabby old hooker
as luck would have it
dolled up trolling for supper
at any port in a st...

the other illussion

...The  other Illusion

I met a group of people I vaguely thought familiar
after a while it came to me and said, you are
the same people I met 15 years ago, glad laughter
we wondered if you had for...

Expired

...Sunny smile, beanie baby 
Drunk and fuzzy, oh so gone 
Binge on uppers, feeling hazy
Won’t even answer your phone 

When you take them you feel better
Like a bird or star, so free
If we cut op...

God Winks

...Sometimes the naturally gifted 
are without a flake of ambition
and the thoroughly ungifted 
have the ambition of a raging river. 
The wallflower wishing to be alone
seems to attract a murder of...

Ageism

...Age is just a number they say,
But when it come to relationships,
They take that back,
When it comes to applications for work,
They take that back,
When it comes to a sound mind ,
They take tha...

Cheese Wars

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I followed milky and mouldy scents,
down cobbled and narrow paths,
only to see it riddled with rats,
feasting on Feta and Camembert,
whilst the wine sipping Uppers prepared to
clash against th...

Gingham Prison: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road

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(A call for the lights to dim as a single spotlight illuminates the legend Judy Garland, who is center stage. She wears a faded housecoat as her beautiful, brandy brown eyes hold a lifetime of ...

Winter solstice 2023 in Northern Hemisphere

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10:27 Post Meridiem 
Eastern Standard Time,
Thursday December 21
Location: 2 Highland Manor Drive
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
40.2562° N, 75.4638° W
Sunrise time: 7:31 am?(121°) 
Sunset time...

The Shoes

...In my backyard,
the sun is drying blood spots
on leather uppers.

I don’t know if the cops will come.
A local cat has sniffed each worn and open throat,
it seems to prefer the left.

The shoe...

Bland Sunday

...A bland Sunday
Today, on an otherwise boring Sunday, I drove to the place on earth where I was truly happy 
It is a place along the coat that has mild rainfall in winters in summers a mild breeze k...

Perfection

...Perfection

Last night I was back in the valley of my dreams
a place where everyone wears clogs with uppers
of leather that sometimes loosens; my job was to fasten the leather to the wood with na...

Polar Bear Tooth Cleaning Day

...Stay back, save yourselves, be quiet and stand out of the way
It is a nefariously thrilling polar-bear-tooth-cleaning-day.
I only do this for one polar bear, his name is grumpy Jay.
He does not tr...

Sparrow Comforted Tiny Faerie

...Sparrow comforted the tiny faerie whose heart was broken.
She could not express her sorrow, it was almost unspoken.
But her hazel eyes screamed sadness, and there was hurt for sure.
He stayed by h...

Poindexter Is a Catch

...Poindexter was a squirrel with the weakest teeth.
He had broken most of the uppers and many down beneath.
How will you chop nuts and woo your bride some said?
So, he bought a huge axe; its color w...

Deserted By Alfred

...Deserted by Alfred


It was not my fault I had no shoes
And the police stopped and asked and since it was none of their business
I naturally told them to get lost
was handcuffed and put in a po...

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