Hi,
I'm John Palmer, a poet from Columbus, Ohio.

Indecisive

That's how it goes.

From where it came No one knows. 

That year they Say 

The water run deep. 

If breathed to much would make you sleep. 

So they covered it up with a great big tarp. When tourist, came They said. 

Fine Art.  

The theater came 

to offer a part neighbors said 

It should be a park! 

I really don't know what to do. 

So I considerably gave the decision up to you.

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Failed rescue

I'd rather, be without, then, have to live in doubt.

Otherwise, I feel, 

That i must scream and shout.

It's who i really am 

Not a mortal man

Maybe it's in my head 

From living back to dead.

Would you like to rush me

Or simply slice to hush me.

Opening my brain,

To see what's insane.

Don't like what you see

Wash it down the drain

Awaiting this world with an open mind,

I'm the one, they call, Frankenstein.

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Alone

I'm from Ohio 

not from here 

that's why I live 

in so much fear

Where I was born

Land's ripped and torn

All you can see 

Is crops of corn

Scioto Downs

With not many ups

They've raced horses 

And dogs from pups.

If you were from there you might be scared too. 

now that I'm here 

I don't know what to do

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My teddy bear

Teddy bears have no teeth 

cuddles and hugs beyond belief sometimes I think I'm just fine 

cause teddy bear is me oh mine

Teddy bear stands when I just sit 

he helps me out when I have a fit

Mom thinks Teddy's just a gas

Me and Teddy play and Sass

One of his eyes is made of glass

The other fell out back in class

Something new that Teddy can do

Like wave his hands or sit and stew

Well I love teddy just the same

No matter how I feel Teddy's never to blame

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Can't fly so I bike

Bike ride in Defiance 

a Street full of clients some are Star Treks others are giants 

the only way to ride 

is with a stride 

from deep inside 

a brand new bike 

is not something you hide.

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Tree sap

This napping stuck

This suckling that side steps around my mind sap slips and kind of drips down the sides of my finger tips 

i dosed off 

I can't complain 

but this sap 

is going to make me insane 

I'm stuck 

what bad luck 

I can't get out 

I twist I turn I scream 

I shout 

my bodies immobilized 

no one hears my crys I'm stuck on this tree with no guarantee 

of ever being unsuckled 

or ever being free.

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Coin size with

I've been waiting for you to show me faces of true my eyes are the size of Dimes the crows the birds the windy waves they Hear My Crys

There's a shortness of longing and a longing for something short outside the middle inside the fiddle where music is made and revoked by a quittal

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Cell phone

I am foolish 

but not a fool 

my phone recorder 

is my favorite tool 

it helps me along when my friends are gone 

it lets others see if someone's following me 

I'm glad it's there 

it's not too scare 

it's only fair 

I make you aware 

if you're going to creep up sneak up 

or do it as a dare 

my phone might just catch you 

as I merely stand and stare

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Truly reading

There ain't no getting out the graveyard cuz when you go you are giving and you're giving when you go some die a little faster others die a little slow life seems so fantastic oh did you never really know it's not from a life of reaping it's not that they know how to sew some like to gather rocks and they really like to throw if there's a fellow to follow or a drink to swallow or a log to hollow to burn giving up their life if that's what they like giving it at every turn

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The First Farmer

If I Was Made of mud and dirt 

would you just cover me over ?

given half the chance 

I could advance 

into a four-leaf clover is there a place where Roots they race 

until they nearly fall over 

plants know so much and never out of touch they could face a supernova  

wheir not only plants with such reason to rant 

But with global warming 

people just can't.

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The prophecy

We world and tears can't wash away our fears 

are scars lay dirty 

and complete 

our lands lost their choice 

as we've lost our voice rainbows lay wrong 

as they color you a song 

from your ear to the nearest gong 

as you're walking around 

can't hear a single sound 

it's Times Like These that make that ground come down around sound

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Expectations

Given a gift

Freshly sliced 

from sheer cliff

It was great 

it was cool 

it was totally out of control

The air was ladled to inflate, 

an invisible gift 

I only caught a whiff of that which seemed made out of slate.

I hope I may see it before 

I'm told I don't need it

And then

There goes the cake from my plate

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A short visit

Empty words Forge careless memories

Across and Beyond

To whom they belong

A sentence is said

Sometimes in song

Is it stable to pawn

From our table

That witch is already gone

Another conclusion Turns to illusion

To hold us

Or forward us on

Is there some means 

That feels just as clean ?

That helps us

When we don't belong

Inside I'm like jello 

An everyday fellow

When spoken

Sometimes it goes wrong.

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Coffee or loose tea

Fantastic tea-tastic

Particles of pallen

Drinking my tea where my tea leaves have fallen

Although my coffee

Has long been forgotten

It's nice that my guts don't feel that way rotten

Although it's not needed 

most coffee is treated

Sold and said yummy but it burns in my tummy

So I come to you to say

If you drink coffee everyday

What goes in may feel just fine

But what comes out May blow your mind

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Dining experience

No social Grace

In the restaurant place

Revealing all irregularities

Is such a disgrace

To break into a scratch and rash

Upon each other's plates

Inside this working place

How does one Escape

This final Finance of an unsocial social race

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Are you kidding me

There is no path

Just bad math.

A sidewalk in despair.

When walking around Be aware. 

Sidewalk for you 

bike path for me 

we're not supposed to share

It's so damn dangerous

Not courageous

We really need 

You to care.

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A good oath

I pledge allegiance

To my bike 

for as many miles as I can ride

And to the public

To witch it supplies

One or more bikes

That we ride outside

One race under the sky

Invincible and miserable

And always wondering why

We peddle and peddle

And never settle

For anything better that's made out of metal

(Rebecca Hudson's alternative ending:

We peddle and peddle and never settle for any motor made out of metal)

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Needle and the haystack

Feed my fork 

with your eye. 

Time to tell the farmer's daughter goodbye.

Running all day 

with my pants halfway 

I know he's right behind me,

I hope he never 

Finds Me

Or he'll stack me 

like a big bale of hay.

If I can make it to the creek 

without making a peep

I think he may mistake me for a stray.

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They warned us

Cemented in so deep

This is the syrup

We see seep.

Lions dread

What's coming ahead

Oil will foil 

Any ocean we soil.

There is an example to sample, 

before we Dive In. 

For hundreds of years 

will do it all again.

It's not, that this is permissible

Though, often it's dismissable.

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Family units

Is a life form

Treated badly, 

Without style ?

Viewing children

as a toy, 

We can play 

for a while.

Keeping a relationship that stays on track

Creating 

True life love

that keeps 'em coming back

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Justification

Not knowing better and not knowing why

Is a kind of fever 

a long time receiver

When things seem 

done in time

And everything feels just fine

And nothing bothers you inside

And there's no problems that you can find

That's probably when we should look 

at the lives that have been took

There's one story 

Of freedom guts Glory

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Tasteful flower

Lets not make a peep and go straight to sleep we take a little nap Inside the butterfly fly trap this is how they say You pay to stay this way in the beautiful musical butterfly fly trap it's as quiet as a mouse. It's were I'd build my house inside this beautiful musical butterfly fly trap see it has to be butterflys fly so free in my beautiful musical butterfly fly trap.

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Coffee bag clothes

Burlapable Betty's. Burlapable sweater. That she wears   

In any weather. Burlapable Betty's burlapable sweater. Helps her keep her wardrobe together. 

No need to help her. Never you the mind. For now Her looks. Are all to fine.  

Never would she waver. 

Never was she Kirt. Just look at that beautiful burlapable bettys burlapable sweater and burlapable skirt.

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Love warnings

Trick or treat Loves at our feet. When we let ourselves fall like snow. Creatures are good teachers 

Others long reachers. In conjunction ? 

In function ?  

I don't know. Sometimes with a kiss. Or. 

a snap of the wrist. The urge.         

Will let me go. Though I might fight. 

with all of my might. After all. 

I really don't Know.

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Helmet to hat

Don't you wish you could wield your wheels much faster than any one could imagine it feels. when dirt turns to broth. As wheels turn it soft. Whoops around the corner when your Nearly falling off. Your body goes inert from the dirt on your shirt. Shade can't conciel the way your face will peel. But with this hat.That won't happen. tastiest bike here Someone got a napkin ?

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I hope not

Crutches like strife seeps through

 true as a thread. extending our life

 so we won't

 end up dead.

 It's a pattern of policy to think in this way.

 you can send it to the people.

then take it all away seems how we earn Our paycheck.

each and every day. Tell me our system has not fallen. to an early eve decay.

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Easy money

Sitting on thire butt waiting to get paid. what a lovely world thave chosen to invade. 

whether thire a woman child or a man. 

doing thire very best

to do as little as they can. 

In a world where commodities are something in demand. 

why are we going through them

 as quickly as we can ?

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Habit forming

Partner what does this mean ? A kind of person that you have seen. have you been under cover ? Is this a new age of love ? Are you on Alternate power ? Have You Heard Voices above ? Finding levers one can tug. Vanishing lifestyles Under The Rug.

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Tusk

 The dialogue of language

 is at times

 otherwise than elegant. See we forgot.

 We're no better

 than an elephant. Seeing now how

 we've eaten

 every brown cow.

 wrap it in a bag

 fold it in a towel

 spread it on the ground feeding Mr. Owl.

 However. 

 If we don't do it.

 Cows.

 Won't have to go through it.

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Unraveling

As we lick thire hand.

  And waaag our tail

  Wouldn't want

  to speak our mind We could end up

  In jail.

  What's the use

 of having a tongue.

  When It sets off

  And offends.

  Anyone

  we talk too

   Walk to. or even if

 We get close.

 say the wrong word

 And you

 could end up toast.

 There once

 was a world

 worth holding

 A boy or girl

Higher than we hold most.

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Gallatiness

The applesause kids

never need bibbs.

They'll need spoons

The way they eat is something

short of neat

Shoveling food, from head,

 to feet.

It's something of a rarity,

 When it's measured uncomparably.

Actions, with no severity.

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Shopping sense

Alabradorcy, can't be found

 in a pharmacy.

Though, you can sit on a bench

 and think, it's a cinch,

Eat all you want,

 it's thirst, we can't quench.

 The thoughts in our head

 that lay in our bed.

Do they bring us comfort,

 Or something else instead.

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Point A to point B

The mountain gives us a raging river, 

the city give's us, a place to quiver.

Held behind gate's.

That serve empty plates.

Fallen freedom,

Could be forming to late.

If no, grass, is greener, on the other side.

Then downtown Browns

Full circle come round.

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Hydration fixation

Water bottle,

 Your so fun

 I'd take you

 with me in the sun.

 when my body's

  thirsty and so dry

 you hydrate me,

 So I won't die.

I'd like to walk with you bottle in hand,

Your handy dandy Sandy fan !

You helped me grow

From boy to a man.

I'll drink you always,

 The best that I can

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Outlook

People, like land mines,

 When they go off

  Always be hard

  Never be soft.

 Will they,

 Come to you ?

  will they,

 Go through you ? 

 If, All it took

Was reading a book

With pages inside

How we defind

The life of a mind.

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Two efforts

Bob and weave

 had a plan up their sleeve

 to never ever sit up.

Then weave got a plan to help Bob stand,

And certainly hoped that was enough.

 At times there's a crutch, we don't need so much,

 I feel that living can be rough.

 Even with medicine,

  I bet Thomas Edison,

at times, felt like giving up.

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Moment consumers

Running out the office, running oh so fast, 

Passing my car straight to the bar before the bar times pass.

I'm only 20 to 30, 

and this building seems so dirty, 

as long as it's Friday 

I'll do it all my way. That being said

it's a certainty.

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Environmentalist

Flowers bloom, 

only, to decay, 

life is tomorrow !

not yesterday.

Insomnia we combat,

A short life 

That's a fact ! life that's for free 

Is happiness guaranteed

No matter who you are 

Wish Upon a Star

Work a long time job made to drive a car

Until then, 

you'll have to bike, 

Probably something you used to like.

In the end 

as you see them pass you'll be the one 

that's not using gas

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Do you voodoo?

Soul, of a pitch black bird,

Can you tell me

A different word ?

When it comes my time to die, 

You won't dare, 

ask me why 

The sky will certainly fry

Inside 

A moment's eye.

And surely my head will spin

From all the time I spin therein.

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Banking on the right one

Credit or debit

At Summit

you'll get it,

As Your helped

not later, but now

When it go's, 

With such speed 

Which is just 

what we need,

We won't have to throw in the towel.

When going to work put a tie with that shirt

Or have someone show you how.

The real way to dress, 

Is impartial I guess

Better be clean sober

And proud

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Ah kitty cat

I miss, Mr. Rini. Unfortunate

but true as a fact,

I'd take him in 

for a full life spin, 

But he's someone's else's cat.

Too bad, there is no cure, 

As i rub fingers through his fur.

He's got devotion 

mixed with emotion

and this I could say for sure.

If he's not tiny ?

If he's not teeny ?

We could, we should, ask mysterini. 

about the pause

just because, 

he might have gotten dirt, on his paws.

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Mathematically That's correct

A man named Vlad. Is what we have. His great at math. In your behalf. There's not been a book. That's not been shook. In his math class. That anyone took. So join his class. No need for grass. With his help you know you,ll pass. It's only math. Anyone can learn. Come. On in. Its Your turn. See its fate. You did just great. Now you,ve. Graduateded. Never to late.

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Rug bug

Is there a roache coatch 

that you can all ride ? That keeps you to the out doors 

instead of inside.

You, being you 

 and, me being me,

It's food, I can't hide and reason can't see.

It's more than a bug that stands on my rug

When I make food 

we both take a tug.

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Aftermath

Lead my friends to logic 

As they find ways to resist, 

some may say it's cancerous,   

When two ways try to exist

At times, there's no time, 

for a poet, to show it, or even make a rhyme, 

In a world of such 

it's just easier to hush 

(To be not noticed  

Is a crime.)

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Blood Diamond

I cannot behave,

Screaming at her grave, 

I crumble and fall like a leaf.

The parts of my mind I pretend are still fine

Are few and far beyond belief.

Life and death 

share the same breath 

Walking above the beneath.

Well, I do not care 

when I can not bear 

the parts that still leave me grief.

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Ignored

Gems and jewels we forge out with tools,

 Under and over the Earth.

 Making A machine

 that realy runs Mean,

 To be pushed around by by girth.

Is there a sign that we can all mine

Instead of preplaning with dirt ?

When digging out Diamond, that might still be Shinnon, 

As brightly as blood on a shirt

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Uneven ground

 Elevator, can you help me off this floor ? 

 Can't escalate this endeavor

 Any better than I did before.

 I am up

 I am down.

 No need for lifts,

 With feet on the ground.

 Here we go

 as we stay,

 It is like that every day

 Find a place

 where we can race

 Nowhere to go,

 As the cars set pace.

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Flighty and skittish

We don't fly,

We're thrusted

 Through, the sky.

 When engines

Don't work

There's no gliding 

 Just dying

Blame it on computer ask the reasons why

It really doesn't matter 

When you're falling from the sky.

There is no way to parachute 

little to, none survive.

Merely counting down seconds.

If the plane 

should decide to dive.

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Natureistic

The purity, of a child, 

Could be wasted on adulthood.

The opportunity 

of adulthood, 

May never see that child.

Not so tame, 

And always born wild inside this animal, 

Along lives the child

It takes a long while 

To realize, 

We could be dumb. 

If you take away our fingers 

you will only find a thumb.

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Bones to bend

Chiropractor. 

why did you hurt me ? I'm on the table 

and then you desert me. 

When I'm in need. 

And you Can't be seen. 

I get hurt agan.

It's deep side 

when it hurts sigh. 

My spinnel cord feels like dough. 

I'm on the table. Without a label. 

The green button indicates go.

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Technicality

The writer wrights 

but only the listener can hear 

if there is no listener there is no meaning 

if there is no meaning there can be no song along the notes 

that fall 

from our throats 

The Genius 

of song is said 

in the next morning will more come storming 

to comfort you 

as you lay in bed 

is there a deed 

that more people need that's Sprouts from your music instead another seed inwhich they can feed 

A poet's not famous till dead.

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Pale face

Our cigarette breath, keeps getting stronger While cigarette body's 

Won't last much longer 

A disgrace, 

this race, 

between cigarettes and our face.

Who would believe, 

we can't leave

those alone,

whether out & about

Or at home

Never alone when cigarettes are shown

Part of our crutch 

We love way too much

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Migrating moth

Ah my beautiful butterfly wish. When we touch.       

Our body's twitch. Out then in 

then down again

With every move We understand.      

Hold me now. Inside this dream, for in the morning. We'll have to leave. These wind's of breeze,  

Until they be                      

We fly by night. Our wing's decree.

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Refreshments

I Reluctant to be free

 with my words of honesty

 As I look inside thire eye.

I'm still attracted

can't say why. 

As I bloom

inside this room

they always find me  

all to soon.

I sat way forward

to be behind.

The ceiling was appealing

as the dinner kind of died.

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Final notice

Bath in the sunshine. Shower in the rain. There's a world I live in that I can not explain. How bitten by life this wonder is new thang. Leaving's all to easy. As is tooth to a fang. Sunshine smooths my forehead. As my eyes sunburn away. I bike a few miles cast a few smiles. And then I start to say. Wade in the water. Curry in the stew. The way to a soft center is waiting there for you.

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Identity crisis

The only thing there should be to do. Is to never loose sight of Youhoo you. When those things that just there was, sat up and spoke to me just because. I was unprepared I got so scared I turned orangerine and left the seen. Now running through bushes, leaves and weed. In hope to find a place where I can be me.

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Questionable questioning

Falling sun inside our hopeful eyes. 

All of the days of our lifes. 

Maybe a showdow of me all the days of my life,

Could it be what we hear, not what we see All of the days of our lives? 

Shuttle me some suggestions and not so many questions. All of the days of my live. 

Could it be that serenity is really that few and far between. 

All of the days of our lives?

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The bear facts

A grizzly ant grizzly. Until there's a tizzy. That it may or may not be in. 

Attention you campers. 

Put away your food hampers. 

And make sure you seal up that lid. 

When walking around. Be sure to look on the ground. 

For riches Life cannot forbid. 

Please. 

Don't make a sound. 

I think we just found. Treasure left here by Captain. Kid.

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The purchase

Paddy cake 

paddy cake 

bakers bike. 

Bike down the road just as much as you like. 

Peddle paddle make that wheel wag. 

Buy that bike if it feels just right. 

Bike it out the bag.  

As your biking down the street To all your friends You long to greet. 

Somethang ponders apon your mind. Trickles down your very spine. 

You look around 

the lights are gone. 

You try to speak. 

But somethangs wrong. 

Inside your mind 

you hear a cry. 

You try to think. 

But don't know why. This trickling tickled your very spine. 

And in the morrning As you sleep 

I think you'll find. 

Your mind so deep.

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The soda pop kid

Pepsi-Cola walking round

Coca-Cola shot him down 

dr. Pepper fixed him up 

now he's drinking 7UP in the crib 

with mr. Pibb 

feeling so sprite 

he soared like a kite tied a rope 

cleared his throat 

and said goodbye 

looked at the sky climbed a mountain 

a mountain of dew 

he got to the top 

and then he fell through

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Underground Winery

Moonbeam over Miami, 

Where drunks go to shine. 

Drinking our drink 

until we can't think 

No way to run out of wine. 

There's nothing 

No one can say 

we're drunk here every day 

Eating our bread 

to dry up our head.

How we define 

Our drink---ing time.

As we're snoring  

Into, the next morning

Without us knowing

The rain is just pouring.

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The first stage

Six feet above or below 6 feet oh don't you know six feet below or above 6 feet where is your mask where is your glove six feet below or above bess make up your mind death is an easy to find remembering your mask makes life easy to mind six feet below or above don't make death make love

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Ice cream trials

Maybe you don't. But Haagen-Dazs. only for a while and just because. That smooth silky ice cream that settles on my tongue I'll aways love it now. And did when I was young. Give it to me on an island give it to me on a boat. I'll eat ice cream all day long if I can get it down my throat.

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We the People

Communing in hysteria, does not make a community, stealing a bike path does not make a sidewalk.

How do I know 

it's where people go 

we don't need a leash

Or a government to teach

Everyone,

There is a place to be it's not in front of me when bicycling.

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Greedy spoon

Hamburgers and french fries. milkshakes and cheery pies. disappearing before my eyes.  

as they go to my thighs. 

maybe i'll realize before im paralyzed. from greasey spoon To super sized. 

hear the cries from otherwise. 

that keep eating till their demise. 

Isn't this suicide.

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Long live the Fable

The problems are here. 

Not in space. 

Is there something,

We don't want to face. 

Kids sell cookies. 

We sell bombs. 

Who really needs these kilotons? Is it terminal to be benign? 

If we make it. Is there time?   

If life give us lemons. 

Where is the lime? 

Ice caps are melting 

Its happening all the time. 

We run and we climb in hope's we can fly          

So many of us feel this way. Can't you see them. When they try.

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Practicality

A little laceration 

goes a long way. 

That's what lot's 

of doctors  

seem instructed to say

Don't you think us both

Should share in on the oath

Not the hypocritical 

Infact the hippocratical

And given a procedure that is not so radical. 

To live a life 

That feels just right

thet's hopeful and 

some what practical.

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Undying sorrow

Amazing brace, 

Just in case, 

I break my heart

and can't replace.

Stay away from cliffs

And all dead stiffs,

We know these things are not good gifts.

Inside your kiss

I sometimes miss,

Maybe somethings

Should not exist.

As I look to tomorrow

To end my sorrow,

I'm still waiting for some kind of bliss. 

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Tears in the river

What ever the cost its Put on the cross As we try to wish it away. When is a preacher imagination gone teacher. When what is stood for No one can say. Blooming our sins from night til day. Seems to be, the all mighty way. Considering the cost of This Holocaust. No wonder I'm encouraged to stray.

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Prostate

I can't piss. 

Cause I may miss. Another opportunity to piss again. 

So I take a pill. 

In hopes to chill my prostate that seems to have no will. 

I'm watching and waiting and wanting to go 

this haunting my bladder is ghostly you know. 

More vitamins I'll take in hopes to change fate. 

When I was much younger it wasn't so late 

to take a piss and never miss the beautiful stream that beamed out of me. Now I can't piss 

cause I may miss another opportunity to piss again.

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Duct 5, 2 pass at 6

While 

Out on a bike ride

I Came Upon a track. 

I placed my ear 

opon a tier 

(They say) Ghost train 

may come back. 

The iron was a little bumpy. 

It felt as if someone had died.  

If ghost train comes

tumbleing back,

Maybe I'll see inside. Rust on the track turns red. 

As thoughts they enter my head. 

Days unfold

Stories, are told

Of towns, that go bust 

While panning for gold

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Good schooling

I have a picture 

A picture surprise.

The kind of picture that fits inside your eyes.

Instant device I will devise.

I loved it so much

I made it twice.         

It came to me one day at school.

If not for the teacher. Would I be a fool ?

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To whom it may concern

No more cop outs 

Do what's right 

not just your job. 

Or turn the knob 

to find a job 

more suited for you. 

What's on a badge besides a pledge. 

But when on their own some teeter the edge. making us die 

and watching us cry. With their satellites so high in the skies. 

Undisputable points when hiring these guys.

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