01-18-2008, 10:28 AM | #196 |
Touring the facilities
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Inspiration...a flat word in this moment
My motivation is sucked to the screen Black and white letters are so lovely Real colors fail to convey I don't know where I am right now Where has it all gone? Perhaps it flew away When I began to beat my head With the club That told me I am not good enough Is it that I can't compete? Or fail to even try? But why? So, I let it fly Again today... like so many other days... And many to come Safely I land in afternoon With no room For expectation Just routine |
01-28-2008, 07:07 PM | #197 |
Deity of Dogs
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Dead ring in his ears
Black soot on his clothes The smell of burnt timbers Entrenched in his nose From old ones, and young ones, and dead ones He ran Small fingers gripping A gasoline can Through rivers of concrete The docks and the slum The orange horizon The deepening hum Beneath the cold reek Of driftwood and crabs He buries it deep Though he's already mad Panic eats mobs As hydrates roar He stands wide-eyed On the glistening shore The din of the dying Toes wet in sand The call of his uncle The gasoline can Gruff men coo As they take him away Between white lips Of sheets he'll stay A ceiling above him A nun at his side His twitches lost Under empty eyes The red-rimmed pride As the bullies ran The fleeting respect Of the gasoline can If nerves would let him He'd gnaw off his hand The wicked mistake Of the gasoline can |
01-28-2008, 07:30 PM | #198 |
I hear them call the tide
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Here's the one i wrote this morning
ConSCRIPtion Cadence I wanna be your scrip fundraiser I wanna get my 5 percent I’m gonna make it nice and easy I’m gonna nag without relent 1,2,3,4 come on down to the scrip store 1,2,3,4 -5 percent’s easy, let’s get more I wanna get your standing order You’re gonna be a regular No more hiding in the corner I’m gonna make you a scrip star 1,2,3,4 come on down to the scrip store 1,2,3,4 -5 percent’s easy, let’s get more For those who don't know, Scrip is a fundraiser for non profits where people buy shopping gift cards through us at face value, but we pay less than face value for them. Typically the profit is 5%. I run this for my kids school. The year before me, they made $7K, last year (my first) we made $19.2K, this year I'm going for $25K. I started writing weekly scrip "news" which soon featured cheesy poems. Apparently they are popular and I get requests. this was inspired by regular.joe and his user title.
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01-29-2008, 07:07 AM | #199 |
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I"ve got a sore throat
Nothing can help me soothe it what about altoids? |
01-29-2008, 08:20 AM | #200 |
Doctor Wtf
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Altoids? are they like hemorrhoids, only higher up?
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01-29-2008, 09:13 AM | #201 |
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01-29-2008, 09:29 AM | #202 |
Snowflake
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I bet you think this poem is about you...
you need to grow up
you make me throw up so get mad and blow up the parking lot: show up get to' up from the flo' up
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01-29-2008, 02:14 PM | #203 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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The cat
sat on a mat and said "drat" where's my tail at? |
01-29-2008, 04:49 PM | #204 |
I hear them call the tide
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The cat
sat on the mat and was posted by drax
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01-29-2008, 06:00 PM | #205 |
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Death to small kittens
Death to red roses Death to grown men With snot on their noses Death to the athletes And those that languor Death to all friends, Family, and strangers
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01-29-2008, 06:10 PM | #206 |
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While I was using the toilet and thinking about nothing,
I noticed a gnat on the rim of the sink, Crawling slowly across What I’m sure was A vast, dipping, featureless waste. I forgot about him in the time it took me To finish my business and zip up my pants. I only noticed him again as I turned on the water faucet And washed my hands. Had he stayed put, clinging to the edge of the sink, Impossibly confused, terrified, He would have been all right. But he panicked, and flew straight into the unfathomable torrent To be washed down into the gapping abyss And taken to the stinking land of the dead, Where so many other hapless insects had gone before him. I felt like God.
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02-01-2008, 02:23 PM | #207 |
Pump my ride!
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I looked, I could see her
She couldn’t see me I sat at my table I sipped at my tea Hidden behind A vase and its flowers I continued to gaze For what seemed like hours And what if she saw me? What then would I do? Panic most likely – Well, wouldn’t you? I’d jump with a start And have a mishap Knock over the vase Pour tea in my lap Feel it burn through my trousers Hit my tenderest place Try hard to conceal it Go red in the face Then let out a cry Of pain that’s for sure Leap up from the table See it crash to the floor Catching my trousers And hoisting them down Left there in my boxers A right red-faced clown. Everyone facing me Staring, jaws dropped My petard well hoisted My concealment a flop Enough of such danger I’ve had my fill She’s not all THAT pretty ‘Hey waiter, the bill!.
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02-05-2008, 11:33 PM | #208 |
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i think
therefore i am thinking therefore am i ? |
02-05-2008, 11:37 PM | #209 |
I hear them call the tide
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yes.
you are. ... drunk, most likely.
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02-06-2008, 08:07 AM | #210 |
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Cyclefrance, that was a good one. I like a poem with a punchline.
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