My Abdomen
...My Abdomen
A great amount has been recorded about
my 17-year-old abdomen. My pale stomach and intestines talk
a great deal and
sleep much less.
I shut them up and
keep them awake by
dri...
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Categories:
zits, humor,
Form: Free verse
A Tad Neurotic
...
My friends tell me I'm a 'tad neurotic'
though they really mean 'totally psychotic'
So around them, I show off my 'full schizoid'
~ picking my zits while reading Freud...
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Categories:
zits, friendship, humor, mental illness,
Form: Monorhyme
Twits Terrible Nitwits
...past knoxville and idaho city there are a pair of adorable nitwits.
townspeople refer to them as kooky oddballs, a couple of twits.
their name is easy to learn. she is backward ditz; he is fritz.
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Categories:
zits, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Surprise Promotion
...It might be time to call it quits
I'm bursting out in sobbing fits
My face is breaking out in zits
For this job I am unfit
My resignation I submit ...
What is this surprise ...
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Categories:
zits, crazy, farewell, language, work,
Form: Couplet
Categories:
zits, hyperbole, muse, words,
Form: Burlesque
Freaking Me Out
...Freaking me out
One day as I looked in the mirror
I saw that a third eye had appeared
In the middle of my face.
It was red, it was huge.
I was horrified by its proportions.
How could a 59-yea...
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Categories:
zits, children,
Form: Free verse
Crunch
...Crunch
by Michael R. Burch
A cockroach could live nine months on the dried mucous you scrounge from your nose
then fling like seedplants to the slowly greening floor ...
You claim to be the a...
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Categories:
zits, america, animal, environment, insect,
Form: Free verse
Poeming In the Plaza
...Poets write poetry; I order pizza
Watch Jeopardy every evening
Close my emails with "Sincerely"
Instead of my own fancy phrase
Wear solid colors--no artsy-fartsy scarf
To set me apart from a reg...
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Categories:
zits, life, poetry,
Form: Sestina
The Spring Caress
...With winter’s end, Spring and Summer arrive;
the pond’s ice is out and turtles sun on logs.
Robins and their young bounce across the lawn,
hunting for worms and grubs just under the soil.
The day...
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Categories:
zits, beach, easter, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse
This Too Shall Pass
...So much to do and so little time.
Sometimes life has no rhythm or rhyme.
When I've got lots of money I have no time.
When I've got lots of time I haven't a dime'
So if I'm gonna eat I must go...
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Categories:
zits, humanity, humor,
Form: Couplet
One On the Chin
...My sister hasn’t many.
My brother has just three.
A friend of mine has none,
at least none I can see!
Another friend of mine -poor thing -
feigned that she was sick.
A boy at school had said ...
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Categories:
zits, teenage,
Form: Rhyme
Forever
...I used to carry the weight of forever
The doomed word attached to all my woes
My bad hair would not grow out
My zits stuck to my cheeks
My critics' words stretched out
In their awkward moments
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Categories:
zits, self,
Form: Free verse
Settlement Specs Between Brothers
...Bro, you ate my candy, serious business.
Chocolate will give you zits, may they never heal;
May your teeth all rot out; may you gain fifteen pounds;
May you lose your hair and have mental ...
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Categories:
zits, 11th grade, anger, brother,
Form: Rhyme
Sariputra and Void
...Once Sariputra was attending a sort of book event: a dozen of young writers, men and women, met up on Wednesday of every week and read each other texts upon an actual literature. Sitting across a ver...
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Categories:
zits, beauty, humor, literature, writing,
Form: Narrative
Suddenly Swans
...Suddenly Swans
ZITS….that plague
eradicated
soft stubbly itch
faint beard
announcing itself.
They were…..once
my sister’s
pig-tailed, bratty friends
now gliding past
in nuanced elegance...
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Categories:
zits, growing up,
Form: Free verse
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