The Landlady
No one gets in her way
Runs a rental house
Mattresses on the floor
Always someone opening
Closing front door
Cheap rent
Packed in like sardines
Shelter expensive in this town
No one complains
Better than sleeping in car
Or outside in the rain
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Sleep rough
Dreaming all night
Wake up
Shaking
Mind plays tricks
Off and on all day
Raining outside
Pencil sharpener grinds
No place to hide
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World spinning too fast
Nothing manufactured to last
Use the widget
Tired of the widget
Toss in the trash
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She
Prays
Mornings
Nights
Totally
Convinced
This is the reason
She has a good life
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Destiny
That is the excuse
He uses for
All
The
Failures in his life
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The
Astrologer
usually
right
except
she
could not
pick a husband
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He
ran
ran
and
ran
But could not escape
the
past
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Empty shell
Stranded
On the beach sand
No longer
Able to feel
Happy or sad
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Selected Communism Is Blind
Her argument was not convincing
She relied on propaganda, not numbers
“I do not support Universal Healthcare For All because it is Communism”
Who pays for your Medicare? I asked
My and millions of other’s tax dollars
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Con man
Expert at selling brand
Stoke their emotions
Brainwash
Uniformed
Followers
Tell
Them
What they want to her
Light the match
Enflame their fears
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He relied only on logic
Never
Trusted
Intuition
Not everything can be explained
Good plans
Poor timing
Bad luck
Trust the gut
Don’t become stuck in rot
Logic is not only tool
Do not play the fool
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Hair turning gray
Teeth starting decay
He packed a sack
Full of snacks
Thumb up
Caught a lift
Complete flip
Left reality
Homeless
Life of uncertainty
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He is able to convince the skeptics
Borrow billions
Play money
For
Eccentric ideas
Every investor is looking out
For the next great thing
He sells that dream
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The powerful
Understand
Repeat
To the people
Over and over
Falsehoods
That
Eventually
Becames
Reality
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Clicking the pen
Put something down on the pad
I’m sad
Squeezing the pulp
Out of my brain
It’s late in this game
Please
One way ticket
On your last train
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Not much left to do
Just think of past
Nothing new
Couple slices of bread
Leftover stew
I miss her
Life now a mess
I still remember
When I purchased her
That
Simple
Sexy
Dress
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Stuck in the
60s
70s
Am I the only creature
Who still uses
A paper map?
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Life
Did not
Give me
Fancy
Dancy
Ripe fruit
Instead
I mostly tasted bitterness
Unable to recognize
This man
Eyes full of tears
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Sitting on her Arabian horse
Proud
Life is good
She lights a cigar
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Slow march
Consistent march
Walking off into oblivion
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Shiny marbles keep on rolling
However
Retreaded tires last only short time
Cheat poor
Turn peasants into whores
Snipping
On Leftovers
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Decisions
Made a few bad ones
Who is counting?
Then day becomes night
The mind begins to bite
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one candle is lit
of course I write when light is just a bit
pen and paper my close friends
sometimes
I’m rattled how some poems end
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longtime
since opening the book
Jack Kerouac
The
Dharma
Bums
wow
termites sure had fun
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Walking
Talking
Skin
Bones
Weekly
Blood
Data
Transfusions
Soulless
Machines
This is the grand scheme
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glass
shatters
on tile floor
I
crunch down
my head into the pillow on the bed
heavy cry
competing
with strongest rain
coming
down
from a thunderous sky
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When I’m not feeling well
Stopping to rest
I think of wasted time
Which only brings frustration
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Gigantic Boulder
Rolling down the mountain
Only option
Get out of the way
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hot humid days
heavy rain storms
shack invaded
I spray
spray some more
lemon juice mixed with vinegar
termites scatter
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dreams
all night dreams
so many dreams
I wake up
feet shaking
nerves shattered
look around
searching
finding
but
unable to grasp
scattered
bits of hope
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my muse just walked away
I try to write
lonely time now
awnings down on all the windows
sitting in the dark shack
slowly
tap
tap
typewriter keys
ideas gone with window shaker breeze
my very own purgatory
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Heatwave
Record highs
Even iguanas hide
I watch a lizard crawl along the patio
Not sure if he will make it to the other side
Dry bird trays
I need to fill them with water
I’m worn out
Breakers trip
Too much of an electricity load
Missus leaning on kitchen counter
She wipes sweat from her forehead
Heatwave
Record highs
No place to hide
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he is a different ant
instead of carrying a load
following in a straight line
he wandered off alone
now
difficult staying alive
but
no regrets
saying goodbye
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Tonight
Fragrant angel’s trumpet flowers open
Morning:
Flowers close and beauty is gone.
All day the tree is growing
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old worn paperback book
falling apart
I carefully patch together
we are close friends forever
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I
sit
watch
listen
to heavy rainfall
next day
sun reappears
work on tan
sadness
slips away
through
fingers on my hands
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the world changed
days
become
weeks
sometimes
month or two
the Hermit Poet
turned his back
works his garden
meditating
living
in
his
sinking
decomposing
shack
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sitting on beach towel
sipping lemonade
oh-so slow
no place to go
wind begins to blow
gigantic cloud now blocks sun
I welcome break from heat
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two days
terrible smell in garden
large
rodent
or
small
mammal
probably
crawled
died
alone
hidden in thick jungle vegetation
birds sing
butterflies
with the breeze
float and swing
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