Think First...
You can’t un-break a heart
Nor un-tell a lie
You can’t redo what’s been undone
No matter how you try
You can’t regain a trust
You can’t remake a friend
You can’t readjust reality
Nor start all over again
You can’t undissappoint
Nor can you uncare…tho
You could give righteous a shot
And see how you fare…
Because you can’t just un-forget
Nor can you be un-rotten
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Stupidity... Ripple... and Me
My fellow Americans...
If I read any more
About us going to war
In some god forsaken nation
Where they want us to leave
Even before we arrive
I’ll say this without hesitation
Let’s fix America first
Put our money to work
Let’s let America be our prime vocation
And if I read any more
About us startin’ another war
I know what I’m gonna do without a doubt
I think I’ll slip a nipple
On a bottle of Ripple
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Inevitable...undeniable
Some where in our fortieth to fiftieth year
Comes a sea-change
of attitudes and emotions
Of perceptions, of conceptions
Of beliefs …
and devotions
It’s a very individual thing
While common
to us all
As if a new chapter’s opened
in our life
Now holds us in thrall
A very different take on life
A very different View indeed
Quite different shade and tone
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To be a cloud
Bright and windy
Shape shifting
Patterns changing
Like flour sifting
Stormy and mild….upon
stage of open skies
Constant costume changes,
before one’s wondering eyes
Appearing…then disappearing
Houdini of the air
Here in one moment
And in the next…simply not there
Sun hider
Moon rider
Sky glider
Gentle…wild
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A Haunting Melody
It's not lyrics…but
whispers
That lie ‘neath the melody
Ghostly murmurs that
haunt
the refrain
Sursurrant sounds
That surge
And then melt
Whispers not heard but
more chillingly
…"Felt"…
As tingles and ripples
Of black fingernail
Making
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Depths...Abyss...A Wanton Kiss
Depths…
Abyss…
A wanton kiss
Feelings…
Lust…
Emotions thrust
Rising…
Dreaming…
Pounding… steaming
Open…
Appealing…
Senses reeling
Smell …
Touch…
Too much…far too much
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God's Lil' Snowflakes
God’s lil’ Snowflake
Snowflakes are denizens
Of cold winter sky
Drawn from grey clouds
To icy drifts, where they lie
They blanket bare limbs
Of cold shivering trees
Through which they swim
Like swarms of crystalline bees
Individually formed,
no two are alike…and which with,
Mother Nature, the artist
Paints her canvas of white
Each snowflake is a delight
The best of which is among
The delight in a child’s eyes
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More on tattoos (pun intended)
Moron tattoos and the financial benefits thereof
One should get one's kids tattooed
When they're very young and slim
I know that declaration, on the face of it
might seem kind'a funny
But as those kids grow up
into much fatter skins
So grow the tattoos without cessation
And I might say, without being "punny"
That, without the slightest exertion
Nor any further financial dispensation
one ends up getting much, much,
Muuuuch more for one's money
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Signs Of Fall
The first lonely leaf to fall
The breezy rattle of cornstalks
The fresh smell of baled hay
The turkeys prescient gobble
Dawn breaking later
Sun setting sooner
Ads for kid’s school clothes
Temperature no longer rising
Wooly worms forecasting our winter
Monarchs wisely migrating to Mexico
Blackberries ripe
Walnuts falling
Squirrels busily storing
Sunflowers sadly drooping
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Men don't care
Men see…when they look in the mirror
Grey hair, wrinkly face
replete with wisdom
So mature…so sage
Women see…when looking in the mirror
A pretty face
But with an ego that
Slowly diminishes with age
Women see…when they look in the mirror
Rearranging…
looks a-changing
Time wooshing past
Men see…when they look in the mirror
That same goofy face looking back from the glass
Doesn’t land a blow on a cast iron ego, because
Men just don’t give… a rat’s ass
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