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Best Poems Written by Jeff Martin

Below are the all-time best Jeff Martin poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Fisherman's Law

It is a law
Observed even by God
Never interrupt the fisherman
Counting strikes on the tip of his rod

And heed this advice
Lest thou face be forsook
Never stand behind the fisherman
As he sets the hook

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Freedom

I may have put you on a throne
And my feelings may run deep
But your story is yours to own
Your freedom, yours to keep

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Magic Pills

She took a pill
Okay, maybe it was three
or four, or five
She took them all
The magic pills
She took one to make her visible
So she would be noticed
She took one to make her sing
So she would be heard
She took one to make her beautiful
So she would be loved
She took one to disappear
And it worked

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Crawler

Down I fall
Followed by the roof and four walls
Hushed
Humiliated
Crushed
But I still have space to crawl

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The Harvest

Jeff gets his hair cut for $20.00. The average human has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. How much does Jeff pay to get his hair cut?

a. A whole lot of money
b. Jeff isn’t the average human
c. It was the gardener
d. No, wait, it was Professor Glockenspiel

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Long Distance

Year 1968
2:00 AM
Very late
Ring Ring
It was the phone
I hesitate
Maybe it would stop
Ring Ring
I guess not
RING RING
Leaving the bed
RING RING
Shuffling to the living room
RING RI-
I answered the phone
Put the handset to my head
Came the voice of a little girl
Age about five
Sweet and polite
A voice from the dead
“Hello world,” she said

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She Is An Alien

She is an alien.  She comes from the sky.  She is a shapeshifter.  She is a transformer.  She is a changeling.  She can shape mice into wolverines.  She can transform alleys into expressways.  She can change whispers into revelation.  She is swifter than a comet.  She can fly rings around the world.  She is an interstellar maverick.  She is a space cowgirl.   

She is an alien. She comes from the sky. She has eyes that see the future. She has eyes that see the truth. She is warm.  She is kind.  She laughs at my jokes.  She is a soul hunter.  She is a slayer.  She is a necromancer.  She dances on the Moon.  She sings to the stars.  In my dreams, she sings to me.  She was a princess in the sky.  She is a queen on Earth.  She is the First. She is the Other.  She is an alien.

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Attention Please

Please excuse typos, grammar, format errors, choice of words, syntax, tic tacs, tie tacks, big macs, cracker jacks, boring facts, silly tricks, pick-up stix, plots, thoughts, good guys, bad guys, bad girls, good girls, whirly girls, gyros, heroes, heroines, gyrenes, jelly beans,  trampolines, transformers, bun warmers, sailors, tailors, tattoos, old news, old shoes,  pikachus, random clues, bubble gum, bubba gumps, shrimps, chimps,  vamps, tramps, stamps, tramp stamps, dogs, cats, carrots, ferrets, parrots etcetera etcetera etcetera. I am making this stuff up as I go.

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The Beginning

In the beginning there was nothing  
No music
No  social media  
No Nordstroms 
It was boring as hell 
On a positive note
There weren’t any distractions

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The Kid Next Door

There he is again
The kid from next door
At my window
Making faces like before
It wouldn’t bother me so much
But I live on the fortieth floor