I Took Her Riding
...i took her riding
this time my venue, not hers
she loves horses, i am no equestrian
i am beyond saddle sore now
trail rides where every bird is identified
a short illumination of the species
mi...
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Categories:
wurlitzer, devotion, for her, joy,
Form: Romanticism
The Day I Saw the Elephant
...Pile drivers have replaced gandy dancers
And Mayflower trucks the circus, open-cage parades
Horse drawn down Main Street U.S.A.,
But overnight canvas bosses still command
Roust abouts to raise ...
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Categories:
wurlitzer, america, growing up, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Brain Chemistry
...long term thinking is a creator of appetite
but brain chemistry can play tricks
like a rattlesnake bite can play tricks
once you toss your conscience into the gutter
and the desire for being the...
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Categories:
wurlitzer, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Self As Hallucination
...their councils priced themselves
straight out of the mystery market
elevation via will power gone idiotic
still overrated by all the cackling heads
of all the universities
deluded that they cou...
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Categories:
wurlitzer, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Prefer You Be Awarded
...Before I become a poet who is extinct
Want to be one who will be distinct
Also distinguished and loud and clear
Thank God Poetry Soup if finally here.
I woke up without a poem in my head
Now w...
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Categories:
wurlitzer, analogy, funny, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Jukebox Gigolo
...Old Zack Adams sits a slouch’n so sloppy drunk on a bar-room stool,
Wear’n his cheap-threaded cowboy suit and a stained satin shirt.
All the while a peek’n and a leer’n at women like an old poor fo...
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Categories:
wurlitzer, abuse, addiction, allegory, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
The Old Jukebox
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Uncle Max’s lake house was a big one
On a private secluded lake
Dad could go fishing there anytime
The time we spent there was great
Right in the middle of the great room
Sat a Wurli...
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Categories:
wurlitzer, music, house, house, time,
Form: Quatrain