SQUIRREL'S LIVES MATTER
...SQUIRRELS' LIVES MATTER
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With tiny paws raised, scurry of squirrels took a stand,
"Dear gardener, how dare you! This is quite unplanned!
You’ve va...
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Categories:
vacuumed, 12th grade, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Like a Rug
...Being depressed is like a rug.
Has fibers and some small fibers tear away.
And no one notices.
Everything is frayed, and funny.
So I laughed at the blinds opening and closing.
I’m never rea...
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Categories:
vacuumed, depression,
Form: Free verse
Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears
...Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears...
of diverse and sundry sizes engaged
in woebegone wild rumpus
as a last hoorah
for diversity, equity and inclusion,
whose somber bowed heads
(hide t...
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Categories:
vacuumed, absence, adventure, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Her Mind is a Carnival of Picasso Harlequins
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"Her Mind is a Carnival of Picasso Harlequins"
Walking through the poetic frames of featureless ghosts
her fingers play like harps their ectoplasmic cages
strange symbo...
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Categories:
vacuumed, muse, voice, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Dust and Me
...I really think I can see the smallest speck in the world.
Molecules mean nothing in that case.
They don’t believe me anyway.
I had just vacuumed the living room.
All the dust went away.
I sa...
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Categories:
vacuumed, angst, me,
Form: Free verse
No objection to cold weather, but
...No objection to cold weather, but...
ah jest wanna boomerang
back into the womb
versus being threatened
courtesy beastie boy gang
beating me to a pulp
after accurately discerning
being s...
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Categories:
vacuumed, adventure, appreciation, color, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Zombies And Chores
...If they were zombies.
Who have no brains so they don’t care about what I’ve turned into…
Maybe they’d be more likely,
To come back for me.
I’m not saying they don’t care.
They just have to do...
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Categories:
vacuumed, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
coming to town
...Peter (my bf) is coming to town - tonight. I’m breathy with excitement.
My energy is so sick. “Someone scrape her off the walls,” Leong remarked, as I bounded out of my room this morning.
Lisa winc...
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Categories:
vacuumed, boyfriend, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
...Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
Otherwise titled – my poetic impressions of Helene
All la names bespeaking deity froom
Noah Mo' Room India Arc
of Covenant to crypt tick Blood
(swea...
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Categories:
vacuumed, analogy, appreciation, beauty, crush,
Form: Rhyme
The kindness of strangers, Pennsylvania's human service agencies
...It's ten weeks now since that fateful day when I tripped in a hole
and my life went array..
I'm finally on my feet and walking again, reflecting on those angels,
the help they did lend..
I wouldn...
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Categories:
vacuumed, feelings, health, people, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
do not stereotype pigs
...Forget everything you have heard about stereotyping the pigs.
I met some the other day, who were cleaner than my cousin Jigs.
They vacuumed and dusted the barnyard until it was clean enough to eat....
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Categories:
vacuumed, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Bee Invasion
...The playing had to be delayed,
(It happens, in a sport)
Though not because of rain, but bees
Around the tennis court.
It seemed a bee invasion
Caused some havoc in a match.
(There’s some vide...
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Categories:
vacuumed, insect, sports,
Form: Rhyme
When I Was a Chambermaid
...When I was twenty-two and lived
In Israel for a spell,
I needed cash and got a job
In a small seaside hotel.
We worked in teams to clean the rooms;
We vacuumed, dusted, scrubbed -
The hardest...
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Categories:
vacuumed, change, jobs,
Form: Rhyme
Prologue 3
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LizPiggo didn't answer,
she just handed the money over to the
Chinese lady and nestled into the quadruple
wide booster seat the Chinese lady had placed
for her. She liked LizPiggo. Liz...
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Categories:
vacuumed, art,
Form: Other
Chaos
...Chaos
Into the maelstrom of blood flinging and flooded diarrhea
Swirling amidst a vortex of needle and .
There I stand at the middle of it all.
The central point of this orbit of noxious madness....
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Categories:
vacuumed, anger, anxiety, confusion, crazy,
Form: Free verse
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