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Tree Bark Poem

I like tree bark
Like to climb up it
With shoes with metal spikes
And cuffs with sharp hooks

I see a bird's nest
With eggs that are blue
I count five or six
It's a robin's kin

If I fall down hard
From this mighty height
I will crush a limb
I will hold on tight

Copyright © Mike Funk | Year Posted 2008


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Not For Nothing

Johnny eats pasta under soft light
He was a prize fighter with a pregnant wife
Always buys his hair tonic from the same guy
His mudda was his hero
His fadda beat him wise

Copyright © Mike Funk | Year Posted 2008

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Death Tree

Whatever you do
Do not climb the last tree on earth
Because if you do
It will not let you down
And you will starve up there

Copyright © Mike Funk | Year Posted 2008

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Dream Fragment

I folded into the dark wooden foyer
that reminded me of the church confessional when I was a boy

the images that got conjured up in there
the smell of burning incense

I lit a match then
I passed out then

Copyright © Mike Funk | Year Posted 2008

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Hats

She received him like a warm bath
He felt like he just got born
What did you say
I felt like I just got born

Take off your hat
No put it back on again
No take it off again

Scrubbing their respective privates with a dry wash cloth 
Fires ablaze in those nether regions now
They are spacing out on one another

There is nothing like the sound of a bird chirping
Outside the window of a stranger
To measure the weight of quiet horror

You will call me
She said that like a question
What did you say
You said that like a question

Take off your clothes
No put them back on
No take them off again

Your smell is on them
What did you say

Copyright © Mike Funk | Year Posted 2008


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