| Poems: 140719 - July 14th, 2019 |
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| Robert Morpheal (morpheal@yahoo.com) |
2019/07/14 05:45 |
140719A
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Choke hold
of summer heat
clamp down
hot breath
and fetid
flesh smell
no lucky charms
found hiding out
in pockets
no smiles
from get nothings
of pretty please
the cool
deep down inside
too far away
peddlers
cram sidewalks
to flog disinterest
try to catch
a pretty face
of don't care
to pass away
emptied out
of something.
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140719B
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How we got past it
and now can't get
through it anymore
getting over
was to coming down
beyond unreasonable
watching for gestures
and trying to read in
to fine print expressions
wishing an invite
could end the need
for all that hold back
up tight moments
tangled up in looking
out into the blue
forecasting social lies
under polite don't say
cloud cover
can't get
through it anymore
and always wanting.
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140719C
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Your beauty added
to the holy litany
chorus of my defeats
your being on the alter
of a laughing priesthood
has left me
helter and skelter
searching for something
out of place
chance happenings
in those never happen
sort of spots
passed through
as odd luck prayers
to disbelief's gods
hostile take overs
by wanderlust
seeking eye contact
never lets go
past scrambled clocks
of cinema romance
street corner turns
of celluloid and acetate
ribbon fate.
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140719D
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The candy man went lucky
and had you
when I had nothing to offer
other than sugar words
language melts
more easily that way
into forgotten forgetting
leaving no valid arguments
past station drift to static
on edge of never hear
and then deny all knowledge
of emotional encounters
each roll of the dice
losing something
and some more than others
going verse by verse
half life decay
leaving scattered particles
failing to scintillate
an empty seat audience.
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140719E
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Big city small town
gone privately conscious
shutters out
party noise unheard
gathering up
no more exposures
into get together
not meeting anyone
at polite chasms
span of years
nothing new
reported in
from front lines
past whispers
of casualties
need it fresh
not broken into bland
abandon of turned
up tight
and nailed tough
familiar faces
chiselled strange
past the hard edge
closure and gone
beyond lost touch
to think we did
and used to know
something other
than struggles
to get loose
getting stiffed
into stiff crowds
with no condolences
in the broken off
lack of interest.
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140719F
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Checked out
of that time zone.
Gone AWOL
from the clock.
Can't relate
to the age lines.
Missed too much
in a skipped beat.
Seems too old
for my state of mind.
Gone overboard
from no signs of life.
Perpetual pin downs
in technicalities.
Itchy trigger fingers
of squeeze and let go.
Ditched messenger
and dropped email.
Tried to call you back
on a disconnected line.
I missed you
means nothing to anyone.
Touching moment
of a memorable loss.
Call of the wild
still brings me down.
Craving crazy
outside an asylum.
A radical distortion
of straight lines.
Mad resurrections
of cultural revolt.
Would have gone over
if this was 1960 something.
A comfort station
in the underground.
Seeking a ticket
on an astral plane.
A lovely rebel
without a cause.
Gone wild card
from the program.
Scrambling the code
into breakfast cereal.
Alphabet soup,
before a live audience.
Stimulus plans
for impoverished minds.
Always someone else
drops into the breach.
Spent shell
in the pump action.
Making an appearance
on a roundabout circuit.
No one really asks
and no one actually tells.
Fearing tight regulation
of attempted escapes.
A cargo in the tie downs
of changing trends.
Missed the wagon
and everyone in training.
Shotgun wedding threats
to worst mistakes.
A cut away view
of never get.
The design parameters
do not meet specifications.
Hopscotch of abnormalities
given no explanation.
No offerings
in the chain of demand.
Surgical revisions
of stylistic requirements.
Something always missing
and never know what it is.
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