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I Could But I Wont

I kept the coulds
threw away the shoulds
reserving the won’ts in a special spot
plucking them out one by one
amusing myself
happily adding them to my coulds
I could but I won’t.

toenail clippers wont do my nails

toe nail clipper? she asks. I laugh and scoff.
It’ll take a jackhammer to get these nails off.
They are thick, gristly, harder than a screw.
What about sheep shears? Asks my cousin Lou.

She does not have nails like these wretched claws.
I change the batteries in both of my chainsaws
It has to be done, all my socks have gigantic holes.
I reach for the first chainsaw whose battery glows.

Suppress Everything And You Wont Ever Get Hurt

Love me, 
goddamn it, 
just love me. 

I 
know that 
I'm worthy 
or deserving of 
something, 

at 
least, 
don't make 
me have 
to
get on 
my knees 
and beg again. 

Oh, wait, 
I forgot- 
I'm not 
allowed 
to be 

vulnerable.

how you wont speak again

beyond me, another poem
fluctuating earring
out of style
has to buy me
playing missing nightstands
till the songs pass us goodnights
circling memories up stairs
swimming in stands
never giving up floors
she's tangled twice
he'd paint her nervous twang
beginnings in shorts
dancing cornered
steady gone, one more block
come with her, next time

Oval room antics, and dubious semantics'

An almost dwarf from ukraine'
Who is real fond of warfare and gain
Got to the 'white house to barter'
Yet ended up starters
For calling; out' unsavoury names'

He then went to starmer'
another no charmer'
Causing Britian, much 
anger and shame'
I hear daily its people complain!

Nothing I wont do

I will walk through the darkness
If it means I can bring them out 
I will muck through muddy waters 
to ease their mind of doubt
I will face the giant 
that stands in their way
If it means that their souls
Will someday be saved 
I will climb the highest mountain
and face the raging sea 
If thats what it takes 
for them to be set free 
There is nothing I wont do
because I have been there before
an emptiness inside 
down to your core 
I tried to fill that void 
in all of the wrong ways 
it did not go away
Until the day that I got saved
So i will not leave them there
because my God did not leave me
Lord give me the strength 
help me to make them see.

We Wont Act Like That

Newlyweds in Michigan City trailng tin cans pause at the stoplight.
Car hauling distraught looking man on a rope races out of sight
You don’t suppose that’s her husband! The new groom said.
Oh yes it is, said the bride. He’s my uncle, his name is Ted.

But it says they have been married thirty years.
My Aunt Agnes is awful, she told him, thus, his tears.
The new groom stared at his bride uncomfortably.
We won’t act like that he said. She smiled and said “we shall see.”

It Wont Go - Bite Sized 73

When sorrow steals into your heart,
And makes herself a shadowed part,
Of every hour, with pain and strife,
Don’t contemplate ending your life.
Your pain wont go, even in deepest despair.
You will pass your pain to those that care.

Surely He Wont Be Staying

ten million people are at this restaurant
mone of them look younger than a hundred and ten
I hear coughing, wheezing, spitting
smelling old people nursing home smells
my girlfriend chose this place.
she is seventy-six, five years older than I am.
I think this is why this place appeals to her.
if you order today’s special, they throw in a free piece of pie.
a new guy walks in. Surely he won’t be staying. He looks under fifty.
he takes his lunch to go.
good choice.

It Wont Be Long Now

It won’t be long now,
She said.
And her hand danced like waves through the wind, 
paving a path through the air,
Building up and crashing down,
Feeling the air push fiercely back out the window of the tire old truck.
How long? 
He asked. 
And his restlessness brought her peace,
Knowing he at least believed they would come to some destination.

You Wont

If you don't think bad things
You Won't.
If you don't go for the gold
You won't.
If you can't say, have a great day.
You Won't.
If you're not in the game
You Won't.
If you can't leap with both feet
You Won't.
If you don't believe You, Will
You Won't.
If you're not all in
You Won't.
If you don't think bad things
You Won't.

Wont Float

Well, saying you can't
simply means you won't.
And that never helps
still in the same boat.
Too deep in a stream
stuck in a moat.
Go, find a new line
or strike up a note.
Nope, saying you can't
simply Won't Float.

Honestly I Wont Like It

Could it your fancy tickle:
The fluid you need does trickle;
Legs once free like vehicles
On Stopped Feet of Manacles?

Won’t it up get one’s hackles
That one often tasks tackles
Others’ Wrists not in shackles
For what one down to buckles?

You others tag ‘The Fickle’
Fit only for the sickle;
Expo sure to ridicule:
Lots of  in Article
That you know “Just Bicycle”
Swearing on “No Icicle!”

Honestly, I won’t like it,
Though shan’t jump into a pit!

He Wont Buy the Cow If the Milk Is Free

Jeannine waited for Harold to make his move 
She wanted a diamond ring, and thought he was in the groove
He said there was no hurry. What did he have to prove?
He was a charmer, and his lines were smooth.

He won’t buy the cow if the milk is free
Said her mom, her uncle, and her weird Daddy.
She ignored their warnings, with a tee-hee-hee.
After all, she told her sisters, they are not me.

Harold has never proposed, but Jeannine has done it twice.
She swallowed her pride and neither time was really nice.
He is a fool and ignorant, said his own Grandma Rice.
But Jeannine did not want her unwelcome advice.

She bought several bride gowns through the years.
That she might never get married was one of her fears.
Harold eventually got married, after fifty years of teasing.
To someone other than Jeannine, which was not very pleasing.

Mistakes Wont Make You a Failure

Mistakes Won’t Make You A Failure
Miracle Man
6-3-2022

Life has been filled with risk taking and mistakes,
but without those mistakes how much would I learn?
Often I’ve done things that left me with the shakes,
but experience taught me those things to spurn.

Throughout my long life I’ve vowed to keep pressing,
that through mistakes & persistence I would succeed.
Always trusting God, to supply my blessing,
and short lived failures couldn't make me concede.

To those to whom mistakes are foreign
you’ve earned the right to criticize me.
Tom

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