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you carry my chair
sent the elevator back
fixed the noisy bath
carried my iced tea
suckle tea from your briefcase
the entire sea
let me use your lap
as my own comfortable chair
after walking far
when i am tired
and can’t walk any farther
the coat off your back
carry furniture
from one condo to other
when people make fun
of the luggage cart
even though they stare at us
every single time
“monkey behavior”
and that’s just the last six hours
of may twenty third
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“just one look at you
and the world’s alright with me”
it’s a lovely day
even though it’s pizza friday
in bitter ben’s world
thursday in ours
three months of pizza
and i’ve only had it once
in my birthday suit
” today i don’t feel
like doing anything
just want to lay in bed ”
banana boat flies
on a waveless ocean
like a waveless mattress
from now on i declare
it will rain four hours
before they say so
have just arrived
very dark but it’s not supposed
to rain until six
DJ always stands
how he gets his exercise
on taco friday
limbo contest
he’ll be out there in fifteen
although no one else here
this new
three kites floating parallel
to each other and one falls down
trying to fly
on top of each other
i knew call the CIA
hopping on pine needles
more and more tiny birds beat
“hey soul sister”
wind glorious wind
i love you more than ice cream
blow out the candle
” they’ve got the beat
they’ve got the beat they’ve got the beat
yeah they got the beat ”
no one played this
just popped into my head
some type of haiku music
“because i’m happy”
don’t bring me down condo
the fourth time is the charm
i know , i JUST moved
three times since i’ve had this site
tennis villa hails
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tattoo down your spine
every vertebrae is green
quite an adjustment
if you want pain
just go to the chiropractor
masochistic spine
” remember the entertainment
you got last night ”
taps me on shoulder
remember too well
not haiku entertainment
dancing rain
looks like a lobster
are my sunglasses red tint
well done on both sides
go inside mr.
pool will not stop sun’s rays
not even three bells
elephant flotation device
pretzels in your fingers
flapping arms
boy can’t quit singing
all fall down to his sister
he’s four and she’s five
someone killed ten thousand bees
will life end as we know it
down the road
expects more to die
obviously his HOA
lawsuit against
italian ice
” twenty dollars in my pocket ”
blue tongue finally
missy asked me
if i was writing poetry
she would love a book
not a bad idea
tourists from everywhere
ten copies every week
i jump off the tram
” woah where are you going ”
to live with my ducklings
point at cigarette
always chose flight over switch
she said oh i’ll walk
she would rather walk
than put out cigarette
lightning all around
that’s a good reason
to sue RJR right there
addictive con men
know it’s illegal
smoking on transportation
was better to run
just as bad as her
rather get hit by lightning
poor oxygen- less soul
.
(sixth poem in three days
about horrors of smoking
ruin your lungs and life
living in paradise
horror of tobacco
fight you til you die)
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pairing pelicans
flying high to their love nest
glide over palm trees
kite flies above birds
” we’re gonna last forever ”
” best days of our life ”
want to jump the fence
see how the other half lives
he’ll bring back pictures
taste better nibbles
cabanas like Burn Notice
musical daylight
giant chess pieces
middle of saltwater pool
as tall as i am
on the oceanfront
six thousand dollars a week
princes send camels
south bound wagon wheels
things that you can do without
” any way you feel ”
let me count the ways
we don’t like country music
don’t ” rock me mamma ”
billy jean rocks you
” forty days and forty nights ”
M J white glove test
” stop and eat your hamburger
that’s what’s the matter with you
you’re hungry ”
as the rain pours down
in seventeen syllables
grandmother speaking
” Jake eat the burger
and then we will go dive in ”
silly little prune
the pool is like glass
they made a break for it
i have an umbrella
only passenger
gentleman dries red golf cart
your carriage awaits
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heaven’s a place
we made up to make ourselves
feel better when loves die
when we are in pain
we ask g-d to please help me
win basketball game
thank for lottery
free will is not the answer
serial killer
baby born one eye
every second something bad
it is NOT his way
he would not allow
terrible murder disease
suffering earthquakes
starving stoning sword
famine sorrow tsunami
EVIL hurricane
NOT every second
for millions of years
twenty four seven NO WAY
g-d is HE
from time immemorial
because men controlled the world
men made up HE
to make everyone feel better
about all the bad
and please don’t worry
about death because of course
IT’S A BETTER PLACE
There’s NO BETTER PLACE
make the world best it can be
BECAUSE THIS IS IT!
RELIGION a way
to control to teach people
to do what is right
Instead of parents
Instead of kind role models
a way to murder
for thousands of years
my religion is better than yours
you must die
next time you almost die
and you say thank you g-d
stop and catch yourself
YOU have no time
for one person why in the world
am i thanking you
how much longer
must i suffer
another thirty three years i can’t
how long must i cough
(only bad ever happens)
twenty hours a day
terrible pain
eleven cars cfids MOLD lyme
fibromyalgia
suffer fifteen years
every second of my life
just from the toxins
supposed to kill you
slow agonizing death
with MILLIONS OF PROBLEMS
why on TOP
would you give me millions of problems
no way to resolve
never ending chaos
SOMETHING GOOD will happen
what i always say
there is NOTHING good
could ever make up for all
pain and misery
why not kill me
after the 4th salmonella
or the first car wreck
people say you are
so lucky eleven times
you are still alive
“you’re too pretty
to be so ill” or “you are too young
to be so ill”
“you are the nicest
person in the world”
my chiropractors would say
NOT ANYMORE
nice has never done anything
but destroy my life
lose everything
nice only begets sociopath
no repayment
RELIGION is used
a way to explain evil
and this makes me mad
there is NO DEVIL
instead of stopping the bad
we just accept this!
as of this second
believe the ten commandments
parents religion
always do good and
destroy evil til it’s death
build more prisons
let innocent out
change laws to put bad away
one stone you are out
never hit children
you don’t know which ones
will become sociopaths
if no religion
no war going on right now
never a hitler
many horrible things
would never have happened
millions more alive
lizard gazing through
you have nothing to fear from me
tiny fellow
save your fear for bird
you hide from him then you run
to catch up with him
haiku hushpuppy
i only wanted six
they gave me seventeen
bird bee me
equidistant fence cement pool
they don’t tell me stories
when birds and bees meet
they’re supposed to talk about
the birds and the bees
solo clear blue pool
she has never sung before
and forgot the words
“don’t worry be happy”
twice the size of other pools
warm pool cool wind
middle name worry
entire pool audience
splash yourself clapping
hardee’s hamburgers
charcoal broiled burgers hot dogs
saltwater fragrance
you can see the wind
blowing the smoke in the
opposite direction
yet entire pool
smells like hardee’s hamburgers
superhuman sense
three footlong hot dogs
taking up most of the space
in my mind and grill
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days like a snowflake
no two exactly alike
walk on rocking beach
five circular girls
solo cups on the sand
hand stands taking turns
wind blows boat across sea
extremely fast sailing
appears targeted
they are coming back
handstand bikinis sitting
in surf with their cups
some guy pacing
appearing to have beautiful
symphony in head
man lying in surf
don’t get too close he has spider
tattoo fingers
resembling this con
on tv one for each
person he murdered
no fear he seems
harmless enough playing with two
sons in the water
you cannot get lost
you will see banana boat’s
white hair and eden
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white stucco lizard
royal blue tail across wall
favorite color
between sea and pool
“you are the sun you are the”
lizard runs on fence
in time to music
he stops in certain places
running very fast
training as greyhound
flew in on air jamaica
he will catch rabbit
“every move you make”
running stopping and breathing
“i’ll be watching you”
nineteen seventies
why is every song they sing
in a time machine
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(lizard was running
in beat to bar reggae band
both entertaining)
wearing red one piece
she’s sipping red daiquiri
white towel on head
just as you are thinking
it’s about 2:30
man shouts to his wife
“what time is it honey”
at that very minute
she said 2:30
he’s wearing a watch
must not be waterproof
memory bad as mine
“you don’t like go carts
that’s on my bucket list lucy
love the grand prix”
i love pontiac
tom duncan pontiac
greer s.c.
“lucy was an
exceptionally clean baby”
“found out it was us”
“they adapt to you
the third one does what we do”
“first is the hardest”
“it’s about a
twenty minute ride to grand prix
i bet she’ll pass out”
“especially if
we put something in her belly
got some CHILI”
best bucket list
i will not kick the bucket
are numbers one and last
“i want to put on
my my my my my boogie shoes
boogie with you”
6/4 before ringo
tuesday night pulled pork
thurdsday nights gourmet pizza
the kosher left side
two fifty a slice
every friday taco night
fish fry wednesday nights
saturday night grill
footlong hotdogs four dollars
burgers and cookout
animal crackers
they’re loaded with calcium
i like the sugar
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here we go again
while you’re thinking are they twins
one has blue with black
other hat black with blue
man says no they’re cousins
answering someone
who apparently asked
what i was thinking
synchronistic thoughts
chattanooga choo choo
wearing clemson t shirt
goes to all the games
grew up in greenville
thirty minutes from clemson
explaining it all
“oh dad i remember
where my cigarettes are
in your pants pocket”
haiku on boardwalk
wasted on bad cigarettes
keep it in your pants
ringo’s father asks
“are you back for the summer”
haven’t ever left
6/4 pm
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