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Milquetoast
Sycophant milquetoast
running from your brown nose
Everyone superior
looked down on in the mirror
Apologetic worm
undeserving of a turn
to be clearly heard
Thursday 2nd November 2023 2:54 am
PASTIMES
Yes, a mandatory retirement age in Congress
I believe it's time has arrived
We will base the age on FDR's fireside chat
And if you heard the broadcast live
Friday 28th July 2023 7:05 pm
IT'S THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT
The earth's temperature will increase 1 degree this century
For climatologists this is the sum of all their fears
It was 15 to 18 degrees hotter on earth for the dinosaurs
Then again, they only lasted 200 million years
Friday 21st July 2023 6:17 pm
TRIPPED UP
Made arrangements to go away for my anniversary
Which then did render a thought
Does my wife really enjoy vacationing with me
Or am I her last resort
Friday 16th June 2023 7:46 pm
AN OLD FRIEND
At age 80 Harrison Ford makes another adventure movie
I guess the storyline is acceptable
Although, Indiana Jones can now only enter caves
If they are handicap accessible
Thursday 8th June 2023 3:31 am
STOP SIGN
Georgia, when submitting digital driver's license pictures
Please wear clothes when due
The word mirror should be the only time
We use phrase, rear view
Wednesday 31st May 2023 7:00 pm
HARD TO KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT
Displayed on my dentist office wall, "A smile is a whisper of a laugh"
I quietly sit there in intending doom
It is meant to be a soothing thought
While screaming seeping from another room
Wednesday 24th May 2023 8:28 pm
SIT STAY REST
Bobi the oldest dog in the world just turned 31
Still his favorite thing to do is to ride in the car
Also loves to bark at children to get off his lawn
And he'll fetch bones if he remembers where they are
Thursday 18th May 2023 2:52 pm
OVER THE HUMP
Great Britain has a terrible squirrel problem
Now animal control blames budget cuts
British scientists working on a contraceptive pill
Since trying to neuter them, is just nuts
Wednesday 10th May 2023 8:19 pm
ATE FEET AWAY
Did you know that octopus can run on land like a cat
Now I know people like their taste
But what ablout betting on them in a speed contest
Now that is a real arms race
Wednesday 3rd May 2023 8:10 pm
ROUND-UP
The Flat Earth Society is looking to grow in popularity
Althouigh their ideas you may scoff
Going to the ends of the earth to find supporters
Since membership has fallen off
Friday 21st April 2023 2:51 pm
NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT
Unfortunately, there is a large doctor shortage
New medical students, just not there
Especially proctology, gynecology, ears, nose and throat
There are several openings here
Wednesday 19th April 2023 3:44 am
girl like me
a girl like me will meet a boy she loves and instead of loving them,
she will think only of the words she will use to describe them,
when she writes a poem that night.
i am not ashamed of my soul that i bear whenever i open it.
a girl like me will write about every person she encounters,
and hope that for some reason they stumble upon it,
and spend the rest of their life wonderi...
Monday 26th December 2022 1:39 pm
walking
"i know how to walk from here to there"
okay, i muse back,
"so walk through fires with me, walk through"
i cant. i never have been able to.
the places that i walk from are the mouths of cavernous houses.
and from them ive only just realised i can leave.
"i will give you wings and a heart and a lust for the finer things"
good, i need an incentive.
"but you must act upon...
Tuesday 15th November 2022 12:43 am
big girls don't cry except when it is absolutely not the right time to do so.
am i hungry or has the pit returned.
that stupid fucking pit.
its an eternal loop, circling in and out of itself.
floating dead centre in my gut.
particles of another girl explode and expand out of it,
overcome by this strange girl from the strange world.
i weep on my mothers lap,
i retch over porcelin, patterned.
seeing my sister for the first time in weeks,
she glow...
Monday 19th September 2022 9:32 pm
lost my way
my soft soles patter over the cold slates that make up the maze of halls im scurrying through.
i am on an adventure, a treacherous journey,
to retrieve a single key for a locked door ive been trying to batter down my entire life.
there are others, winding their ways through the spiralling turrets.
sometimes we even fall in unison,
our shoes hitting the same beats, on the same beate...
Thursday 14th July 2022 12:51 am
girls and their nonsense.
floating in that acrid pool of nothingness,
a feather kissed the tip of my nose and whispered softly over my face.
in that moment, decided.
i watch the village of women who surround me each day,
awash with a soft awe at their mossy eyes and woolen hands.
i link arms with the girl i love most on a late night walk,
running from the boy who asked me to give apart of myself.
...
Monday 20th June 2022 3:08 pm
the day I decorated one side of my wall
on the day i decorated one side of my wall,
there was a statue that fell with a crash,
and cratered the ground.
a statue whos golden plaque was read aloud to me as a child.
and on the day i decorated one side of my wall,
with the movie quotes,
and the pretty people,
on that day my eyes bruised themselves silly.
my pockets full of hours, and grief.
non violent pu...
Friday 3rd June 2022 11:16 pm
Existence
Existence
"The state of living, or having objective reality"
Living is Existence
What is Existence
Not the ice sculpture
Not the photo shopped, picture perfect version plastered on the smuck white dictionary pages
What is it to you
Existence is I, composing these words so exact and sharp as the silence sliding off the snake's tongue
As it is to you, as your eyes dissect each letter and sti...
Thursday 4th November 2021 8:37 pm
A Cooks Wish
Praise me if you wish
For yesterdays dish
The meal you did not finish
The sauce your spoon would not tarnish
The dinner you did not touch when it was fresh
Saying now this dish smells of Melville's fish
Do not consume the meal when the chef's gone to bed
Pay me no compliments after the dogs are fed
Who wants recognition after they’re trodden;
After they are gallows led?
...Friday 16th February 2018 4:59 pm
Scattered Minds
A scattered mind,
Isn't to hard to find,
Especially if it's mine,
Is insanity such a crime?
We don't have much time,
Don't be like your dad,
I hear,
Do you think it's a fad?
I wonder,
Does blood really stain?
Or do you think this judgement is simply too vein?
Let me reign,
I'll take away the pain,
I'll stick listening to my brain,
And leave your bleeding h...
Friday 16th February 2018 3:28 am
Men’s true measure((Ben Jonson)/Translation in Amharic/Alem/የሰው ትክክለኛ መስፈርት
It is not like a tree
In bulk doth make man better be,
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year
To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sere,
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night—
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see
And in short measures life may perfect be.//
የሰው ትክክለኛ መስፈርት
እንደዛፍ መግዘፍ
ሠውን አያደርገውም...
Friday 16th December 2016 10:27 am
Short and Sweet
When I regard the short and sweet,
That perfect crossroad given life--
And since the two so seldom meet--
I like to stop and stay awhile.
For what observer could protest
To cherishing a fleeting thing,
And wishing it to stop and rest,
To hold it up and hear it sing?
But recognize its fading glow,
The moment one's excitement peaks,
Then turn around and let it...
Friday 21st August 2015 6:37 am
Do All Dogs go to Heaven?
Do all Dogs
go to Heaven?
I sure hope
It's true.
Cause when I
get to Heaven
I want to be
there with you.
You are gone
now but
for a
short while.
When I see
you again
I'll have a
big smile.
I'll sit upon
the ground
while you run
that crazy little circle.
...
Monday 18th August 2014 4:57 pm
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