Wastebasket Poems

teddy

...I ain't normal, not even close
not even as a child, played with dolls
and paper cut-outs but I always decapitated
them (do you remember mother?)
finding the head of my sister's Clarabell
doll fl...

Endless Story

...endless story

I have tried to tell a story of a rat that fell from the ceiling
It landed among drinkers in a café I ran,
Never had I seen a café emptying of people in two seconds
flat; the rat ...

Literary Abortions

...My wastebasket overflows
                           with aborted attempts,
Lines that I cannot rhyme
                           and syntax that limps. 

Written November 6, 2022...

Adventures In the Office

...There was something wrong with me.
During the meeting,
I felt like going to a square
and swinging.
I tried to concentrate
but I was thinking
if the fact of not having vices
it would no longer ...

The No Ending Story

...The no ending story 

  I have tried to tell a story of a rat that fell from the ceiling
  it landed among drinkers in a café I ran,
  never had I seen a café emptying of people in two seconds
 ...

Unwritten Text

...Unwritten page

A blank page on the word processor I ought to leave it this way
just look at it and dream what I could have written.
If I delete the words written, it will be a blank page again.
...

Root Canal

...The Paying (I wish) Public marvels
at what comes out: those explosive, star-spangled
phrases and melodies (the few times I get it right);
but what of the great-real that went in, the life-struggle...

Parade

...He is coming again. I can  always feel when he is on his way because my heart starts to race and I feel the fear. 
The fear of soldiers busting in. 
People being murdered by clowns 
while I dance ...

Writers Block

...the wooden pencil between my fingers 
the led touches the paper 
mind becomes blank 
words seem to have no true meaning
piles of crumpled up stationary all over the floor
heaping out of the wast...

When It Rains

...*WHEN IT RAINS*

When ponderous rain slap earth like rocket
We envelope ourselves into big blanket
But others lie on the floor without jacket
With water rolling from the roof into their bucket
...

Frozen In the Snow

...FROZEN in the snow, 
she was running with nowhere to hide,
        Mental illness took its toll, 
for there was no one to confide.

A lonely lamb lost in
the universe,
a lion protruding si...

Your Equity Release Plan

...>For the umpteenth time I have received in the mail.  The post one not email a letter from a company informing me of my equity release plan.  They enclosed a prepaid envelope.  Seems a shame to waste...

A Pathetic Composition

...Moods rising and setting like the sun                                                                                       In waking moments of the artful soul     ...

The Plight of Society

...Each time I finish a beer, I throw the empty 
can at the wastebasket. 
They always bounce off and clink about 
on the floor, most likely due to the 
fact that the trashcan is filled 
with trash....

Le Vacance Pretentieuse: Your Favourite Tv Programmes, Now Even Less Understandable

...Gargling, a gargoyle’s groan gulps
From the bilingual blackness of TV,
A clockwork advertisement pulps
Knowledge into your worn mind free
Of charge. Nothing but gobbledegook
Everywhere, an insistent ...

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