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Herb Garden

I’ll one day plant
An herb garden
Just for you

The various herbs
You may feel
Overwhelmed by, at first

Though do not fret…
As the herbs mean
No harm, of course

Why do herbs exist?
Why are they so comforting…
So flavorful?

The answers you seek, I’m afraid
Will continue to elude you…
I’m sorry.

Take no offense, kind individual…
The herbs wish you well
And love you

Vincent Procopio

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Paycheck Prison

Smells like power
But tastes like chicken
Administrative duties
Make my pulse quicken

Repression wears a tie
Arrogance sports hose
Make Bossy smile
That’s how the garden grows

Timeclock sphincter
Clamped down tight
Constipation of thought
Absence of light

Artistic fire snuffed
Sculptor’s hand inert
Bottom line worship
Trade the smock for the shirt

Corporate aorta
Chocked with fat pride
With toad-lust for power
Freedom must collide

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Nervous Purvis

Nervous  Purvis, why so quirky?
I’m losin’ my hair and the future’s lookin’ murky

Nervous Purvis, why the twisted scowl?
No woody here, just a slim little dowel

Nervous Purvis, why can’t you score?
I’m wearin’ silly drawers and I eat off the floor

Nervous Purvis, why blame it on the Man?
Cuz he’s real bossy and kicks me in the can

Nervous Purvis, why the dirty pants?
I wore ‘em to bed while reading Judith Krantz

Nervous Purvis, why not make a change?
Cuz I like sittin’ pretty and scratchin’ my mange

Nervous Purvis, you could be so much!
Like paying for meals and housing and such?

Nervous Purvis, why the dirty nails?
Been slurpin’ on felch and fillin’ diaper pails

Nervous Purvis, you’ll never fit in!
On with ya, donkus, and wipe off your chin!

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Flight of the Crone

Dirty scowling crone
Old as the wind
Tear-stained cheeks
Sadness of knowing

Shuffling quietly
Through twisted shadows
She is darker than night
Darker than you

Stony chill of her breath
Whistling across 
Withered yellow lips
The foulest of crypts

Hating eyes
Hating you
Earthen pits of decay
Windows to oblivion

Embracing you…
Twitching, dying bats
Scurrying, gnawing rats
Screaming, slicing cats

Don’t look
Don’t watch
Don’t see
Don’t know

Ever

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Our Friend, the Pancake

Ahh yes, our friend of course, the Pancake
Fluffy and accommodating
A stack of love for you and me
Ffffff..flip it! Yeah!

I pour you on a hot griddle
A light-brown face
Of total acceptance
Yes, of course, I’ll have another

Please love me
Like I love you
Your varied shapes
I gobble up, always grateful

A friend with a riddle
A friend on the griddle
I’ll never forget you
Our friend… the Pancake

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Which Came First

Poultry farm chaos
Chicken-lickin’ you
Sweet and sour future
Henhouse flurry

Henpecked and handpacked
Epistle of gristle
Cellophane stiffy
Wishbone hope?

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Eunuch From Munich

RuthlessRack Panzer’ttack

   GonadBurst BratwurstCursed

GameteShear RivalCheer

   PainfulShout DourKraut

NeuterCord ShooterBored

   CoinClockDrought GroinDocOut

BarrenLoin CharonCoin

   SeedBlock BreedLock

LoinClothSloth InertBroth

   VasDeferens ChasteReference

TesteRest  BlessedWithBreast

   ForestBlack SchnappyLack

KaiserKermit PoutyHermit

   FatherLand GenericBrand

LostYourGland McNallyRand

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Filthy, Stinking Money

Stinking, dirty money
Foul, festering money
Putrid, gassy money
Rotten, disgusting money
Oppressing, cruel money
Castigating, merciless money
Admonishing, finger-wagging money
Subjugating, stone-faced money


Aah, money…
That your kiss is so sweet,
Your embrace so sensuous,
Your possibilities so tempting…
I am dirty with your scent

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Chocolate Sass-Mouth

Chocolate Sass-Mouth
Spacklefudge grinny
Sloppin’ down my chinny
In it to winny!

Chocolate Sass-Mouth
Butternut cream
Smeary goo team
Gurgly dream

Chocolate Sass-Mouth
Spittin’ out sass
Unburdened by class
Dirty hall pass

Chocolate Sass-Mouth
Twisted face covered
Misty-place lover
Never recovered

More chocky please

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Earwig Brain Harvest

crawling biting lacerating
sniffing, chewing

tunneling through
damp, waxy tunnel

ahh, sweet white brain
awaits…

gulping orange wax
swimming, striving

wait, I’m stuck!
what is this obstruction?

a strange, tough membrane…
elastic and taut

yes, of course, it’s the eardrum
foiler of earwigs

gotta punch through
snip tear poke rip slice

barely squeezing through
billowy elastic

syrupy warm fluid
slowing me down

sniffing pinching testing
struggling driving thrusting


ahh, finally…
the glistening white membrane

whoa, it’s slippery!
So plump, so electric!

white cheesy wonderland
viscous holiday

millions of neurons
Storing thoughts and feelings

master control center
the very essence of consciousness

right under
my brown, scaly legs

my prickly feet skittering
across the pulsing ridges

I believe I’ll deposit
Some filth…

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