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Im glad Penguins are happy at London Zoo!
But am I not like a little Penguin too?
Im sociable, and a good swim, is a nice treat.
With cupped hands, and fins on my feet.
I can hold my breathe, not as long I know.
Catch fish with my mouth, in my Tuxedow.
Please illuminate me, And show you care.
Smash your machines, "go on I dare".
Sweep up your plastic, it pollutes our Earth
Please mister man, let's have a rebirth.
La casa, junto al río.
Alegre el saloncito. La ventana
Sobre el jardín. Aromas. Luz. Estío,
Aves en el azul de la mañana.

Copiado en grande espejo, se columbra
El tocador de mármol de la alcoba
Que un claro sol alumbra;
Y en la negra caoba

Del luciente piano
Yergue su aristocracia,
Colocado con gracia,
Ramo de rosas del jardín cercano.

Y salida del baño, en amplia bata
Que el seno mal recata,
Yace tendida en el sofá, fumando
Un cigarrillo y otro, y viendo el humo
Subir en espirales.
Yo, imitando
Su inocente placer, pues también fumo.

-¿Y qué piensas hacer? ¿Salir? Supongo
Que saldrás, pues no creo
Que hoy al «Bosque» no vayas de paseo.
Y pensando estarás: «¿Y qué me pongo?
¿Qué sombrero? ¿Qué traje? ¿Y qué sombrilla
Llevaré? ¿Blanca o de color de rosa?»
Y dirás cual la cosa más sencilla:
«¡Bah! Si todo me queda a maravilla»,
Porque eso sí... Cual nadie vanidosa.

¿Sonríes? Cuántos al pasar tu talle
Y tu cara, entre arrobos,
Como si fueran bobos
Se quedarán mirándote en la calle!
¿Y una cita no tienes? Di, responde.
¿Cita con quién? ¿Y en dónde?
Si quieres ir a Armenonville, pidamos
Una mesa. ¿No quieres?
¿O a «Perroquet» prefieres
Ir esta noche? ¿Vamos o no vamos?
¿O más bien a «Florida»
Para ver a la Nasch, como albayalde,
Y flaca siempre, y siempre bien vestida
Por Lelong o Patou, pero de balde
Cual «reclame» de sus casas de costura?

No fumes más. No insistas. Te hace daño.
¿Cambiaste la montura
Del anillo? ¿A Deauville no vas este año?
Una pregunta, nada más, loquilla:
Para verte los ojos, frente a frente,
Acercaré la silla:
La mirada, ¿no sabes?, nunca miente.

No son celos. Te digo
Que no son celos; pero aquel amigo

Con quien te vi en el Bitz.... te lo aseguro,
Sí, no son celos, no lo son. Te juro
Que celoso no soy... Mas tienes suelto
El brazalete... Dime con franqueza,
Con franqueza, ¿a salir con él no has vuelto?
Apoya sobre mi hombro la cabeza;
Mas no cierres los ojos, oye, mira;
Dime que todo, todo fue mentira,
Que, nunca has sido loca,
Y nunca lo serás para engañarme,
Y vivirás, y vives, para amarme....
Mas dilo con el alma entre la boca,
Dímelo pronto, pronto....
¿No oyes? ¿Estás dormida?
                                          -«Tonto, tonto!
Qué tonto eres así,
Imitando Toi et moi de Géraldy».
sage eugene zumr Oct 2020
forbidden rituals comended sitch of stix
im the britches you place upon
so call your ***** inside the basment ****
take along a hit you snake a song
hate the wrong right flippin tight
hit the mic with a statement strong

convince no other like the fitz
fritz fizzy lickin nips
seconds latent intwixed thats
furry flip burried bitz pix hurry
quick youve made them silent kits

scitz inside the ritz ive eatin too many
all these souls convoyantries
im boyant in the poetry i clip
no butter cup could kick
lick the mother dusk of nix
yall never heard those names

im the sane inside your dame scit
wont claim another aimed in
ill own every tame dinner
like a kitten quickly drips
theirs a moment full of bliss where
no one understands the hungered man

lightning in the thunder can
blunderbus ive underland
wonder what the summer has
another laps im tousk
musk elighhn mine sight
wolf amongs the sheep of fifths

never was it ray who hadent his
i see the shades of gray into fray
this the day admists those munchkins
double dutchin hush hundred
fourth ladder that i summon this
is nothin like a buimpin biztks

dunce i loved the days
other plays hey talk of tay
you get them ditches diggin
quick i know the cards behold
the hardest roll to play im
goin motions slowin till i play
alpha told me stay at bay
i come from places youd have missed
Malcolm Jun 26
The sound of the siren curls like a question,
spinning through concrete veins.
Mist settles like smoke from a lie,
wrapping rooftops in guilt,
truth leaking out,
no doubt.

Ey *****, what you say now?

The quick brown fox jumped over a fence
dropkicked a lazy red faced little cow.
Ooh—million attempts at what,
a vow?
You think that pretty little grin,
that “look at me!” skin,
a smile like a tooty fruit troll-face is your win?
Was that enough to stall the fall,
to silence the cracks
in the mirror where you crawl?
get your sad little point through a crooked corridor door,
what a bore.

Fake shouts—“Oh me!”—
****, the picture hangs skew,
naming different artist oh no
what we going to do?
Raise one wait maybe raise two!

Don't you all see,
come quick have look
I think it's the cover of a old stolen book,
but you?
Still posing like it's new, true
like you bought it, distorted
taught the paint colour in a shade,
oh my architecture
Come put on a parade.

Sirens scream,
ambulance or wambulance, who knows?
I called it for you ! 911 what's your emergency?
A thief stealing stained glass and borrowed hymns / from cello kids in cathedral whims,
sky dims.

We hear you loud and clear.
we were already on our way !
It's me ma –it's me ma – it's me ma !
the sound of the siren in the distance while mist settles truth in a darken hue of blue red blue
just definitions oh so clear
words they disappear,
just like you.

Do you think putting a wall between changes my life,
Oh dear me how can this be?
your poetry sounds like Bert and Ernie,
Wambulance pulled out a gurney.

Lights—camera—play your part,
the damsel routine,
the broken-heart art.
Sending smoke signals
into the void,
hoping someone out there
feels annoyed enough to care,
while you hang onto a distant stare,
When you think your poems are:
Rare as dime in a bubblegum machine.

Look everyone—flatter her
while she’s battering,
Chattering
but truth?
Just uncouth.

Yeah, satire packs it in
like a left hook to your chin.

You think you’re special, huh?
Generic tone with a borrowed soul,
dancing all night in knockoff roles,
trading moans for coin in bathroom stall.
under gallery lights you’ll never know,
painting tears you moan, groan "nut"
never own, "moaning Lisa on loan".

Living in a glitch of an AI scheme,
is that where your writing dreams?
Minimal with a lisp, stale not crisp,
just a blur in a comment stream,
boohoo he just being mean!

You shout so loud
for your petty crowd,
like this song must be you
Bet you think this song is about you too
Dupe do dube doo
Maybe it is.
Maybe it’s not.
Maybe it’s just a monkey
at a five-card standoff
Raised the stakes
flinging ****
at signs it forgot.

Either way,
I couldn’t give two *****.
Not three, not four.
**** girl,
you inspired even more.

Chum-chum, here he ****
crusty knight in silicone armor,
itchy little *******,
twitchin’ for trauma,
chasin' **** like karma.
Old ******* always show up to rescue
anything with cleavage and a crisis menu

Then he sends out a drive-by "flex" / like he’s living in the ******* Ritz
quick on the text
running for any pair of ****,
click n' follow!
dam don't wanna sound ******
that’s twenty "likes" right there,
ain’t that the bitz?

Ah just so silly
Not even a real brit
But he give you a "like"  for a ***,
excuse the wit..

The next day,
your words decay.
Lovers brawl,
no one’s wrong
but I’m still right,
because I don’t belong
to your broken juries
or boo hoo storybook flurries.
They didn’t hang me
they found you wanting.
So fix your shoes.
Get braces.
Chase your high
at the soapbox races.

Boop-boop-de-doo,
cry me a meme.
I don’t fit your box
I reshape the dream.
Turn corners to clouds,
make square roots bloom
in the garden of my mind,
where there's no room
Kazoom.

You thought the judge
would swing your way
as you wagged your finger,
tried to slay.
Hey hey hey, lies! Barney rubble
But turns out fate had a line or two,
No trouble double double
and now the curtain’s drawn
on you,
maybe you should get a clue?

I’m no status, do I look like facebook
looking for likes,
looking for fights
stars and fake blends
No hashtag trend.
I don’t bend
for clickbait or dead-end friends.
I write for the real,
for those who feel
not ******* in trash bags
with wait - oh fake flags
and empty mags,
not turds in windsocks

Stamp your feet, scream your shame,
twirl like a TikTok user caught in flame.
“What you trying to ******* do?”
Here’s a suggestion:
*******.
Kiss a frog.
Post it on your blog
choke on a log,
“****-sing your lies like a sad lil cartoon”
Bet thats your kinda thing too.

Here’s my *******,
signed in Sharpie
Big, loud, and bright:

****. YOU. FULL STOP
While we all have a laughie.
Copyright Malcolm Gladwin
June 2025
“The Wambulance Diaries”
battle poem for AP - bit of Satirical and Humourous non sensical ranting lol

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