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"cowboys" poems
I don't know how many bottles of beer I have consumed while waiting for things to get better I dont know how much wine and whisky and beer mostly beer I have consumed after splits with women- waiting for the phone to ring waiting for the sound of footsteps, and the phone to ring waiting for the sounds of footsteps, and the phone never rings until much later and the footsteps never arrive until much later when my stomach is coming up out of my mouth they arrive as fresh as spring flowers: "what the hell have you done to yourself? it will be 3 days before you can **** me!" the female is durable she lives seven and one half years longer than the male, and she drinks very little beer because she knows its bad for the figure. while we are going mad they are out dancing and laughing with horney cowboys. well, there's beer sacks and sacks of empty beer bottles and when you pick one up the bottle fall through the wet bottom of the paper sack rolling clanking spilling gray wet ash and stale beer, or the sacks fall over at 4 a.m. in the morning making the only sound in your life. beer rivers and seas of beer the radio singing love songs as the phone remains silent and the walls stand straight up and down and beer is all there is.
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Yes, it's seemingly a nonsensical rhetorical question, but, for that precise reason, it will illustrate a lesson, if you so desire to tag along for this short session. Per Wikipedia, "The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. It is an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae." Hmmm... I much prefer that the horse goes "Nay," eats hay, has a mane, and is ridden by cowboys, cowgirls, Indians, equestrians, knights, jockeys, conquistadors, Mongols, and all. Even better, just point a horse out or otherwise show a picture to a kid and they will never be mistaken again. Even the littlest ones will never be stumped when faced with a rhino, tiger, giraffe, camel, and such. Admittedly, there is a worry that we could be fooled with that of a donkey or mule. How come no one has taken advantage of this?! What a scam to get us rich! "Duh doy," you say, cause we all know when we see a horse, so why would anyone try to trick us with an *** Well I ask you in turn, why does anyone try to trick us with good art versus bad, let alone art versus crap? How could anyone fall for that?!
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Jun 10, 2018
Jun 10, 2018 at 8:48 PM UTC
Rhetorical Question: What is a horse?
Garments stripped from worn bones and weary mind Feet dragged on tile; hands grasp plastic veil Stepping into a tub; near swoon divine A pure, naked self emancipation, before the squeaking running metalware   that erases the daily equation. Dancing, singing tunes of own devices: Cupid, Shooting Star, Sister Golden Hair Rocky Mountain High, American Pie ****** bosses gonna kiss ***** here Astronauts, cowboys, and rockstars meet here Best yet, the individual is here Although merely hidden by a curtain, all for your view is but a damp shadow.
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Jun 16, 2018
Jun 16, 2018 at 4:46 PM UTC
Sonnet to My Shower Curtain
“death everywhere, not age or ancient, just an infiltrated lack of life” a puzzling, troubling line in a personal message, instantly isolated for further review, needy indeedy for a second medical opinion, for it’s a description of two, an actual place and a state of being a place where death seems more commonplace, not from agedness or honor, but from a madness drunk from a special cocktail of heat, guns and pseudo-rock stars, with beer chasers imbibed by those who imagine themselves INRL   in a movie genre of specialized urban cowboys, subset horror flick, self-appointed angels part of a world view so pervasive that it infiltrates the mental water supply and modifies the pure children early on demeaning existence, with a sense, a sendup, life is unreal, cheap, so taking it-is ok, justice delivered, for we angels, are subset, angels of death in a country where seven out of ten believe in angels, and one in four confident that the sun revolves around the Earth look to blame polluted water the ever-overheated atmosphere, bringing typhoon and storm, I do not know *how be sun and water, the essences, the originations of all life today come to the planet days still clear and warm, yet can not infiltrate our personal mystery, respire, re-spark the notion of the spirit,* the simple sanctity of life peculiarly human
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Sep 21, 2018
Sep 21, 2018 at 12:59 PM UTC
Texas: “death everywhere, not age or ancient, just an infiltrated lack of life”
the earth is curved - sure y’all knew that.   but to get to the Northwest, Interstate 84 ain’t le route plus directe nope curve north to Ontario, wave to Bex as I cross over London and Toronto, also can’t recall which poet from Rochester hails, or did they shuffle off to Buffalo? Crossing Erie, Huron, and Michigan Great Lakes all, brings to mind my mother’s birthplace, Last of the Mohicans, and the three years I did in the Cleveland Penitentiary, where sun was illegal and baseball was a pretend play of cowboys and Indians but by god, it made me the penitent fella I am today Look skyward to Montreal, yes, there he is, the Leo Priest, the baffled king, blessing this poetic meet ‘n greet trip with a smiling unsurprising hallelujah Apparently some US citizens still can traverse O Canada, even if one forgot their passports, and are not PNG’s (Persons Not so GREAT) over Minneapolis shed a tear for Diane, a poet- gone-missing, and wonder if you reader come from St. Cloud, Fargo or Duluth, Bismarck or Aberdeen, surely they still speak poetic English there in a twangy metering methodology  - well, message me asap wow there really is a Saskatoon! the pilot asks us to lean left in our seats to help turn the plane so we go to Portland and not to Vancouver... me thinks he might be a touch Rockie Mountain High, considering we are at 30 thousand something Imperial, as he walks the main cabin with an oxygen mask and a huuuuuge grin see the distant Cascades through a crack in the shuttered windows, must be close to “the coast” (as if, harrumph, there were but one) ah, words in the clouds, ripe for the plucking must be getting close to Oregon, where poets grow on trees, woody words like **** and log-float poems down the Columbia to the sea gonna drink me some poets under the table cause this trip I ain’t no driving and I am already “flying” ‘n scribing and arriving on a high tide and a good wind
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Jun 7, 2018
Jun 7, 2018 at 5:47 AM UTC
Songs of Going to Oregon: No. 2 But Who Knew?
the earth is curved - sure y’all knew that.   but to get to the Northwest, Interstate 84 ain’t le route plus directe nope curve north to Ontario, wave to Bex as I cross over London and Toronto, also can’t recall which poet from Rochester hails, or did they shuffle off to Buffalo? Crossing Erie, Huron, and Michigan Great Lakes all, brings to mind my mother’s birthplace, Last of the Mohicans, and the three years I did in the Cleveland Penitentiary, where sun was illegal and baseball was a pretend play of cowboys and Indians but by god, it made me the penitent fella I am today Look skyward to Montreal, yes, there he is, the Leo Priest, the baffled king, blessing this poetic meet ‘n greet trip with a smiling unsurprising hallelujah Apparently some US citizens still can traverse O Canada, even if one forgot their passports, and are not PNG’s (Persons Not so GREAT) over Minneapolis shed a tear for Diane, a poet- gone-missing, and wonder if you reader come from St. Cloud, Fargo or Duluth, Bismarck or Aberdeen, surely they still speak poetic English there in a twangy metering methodology  - well, message me asap wow there really is a Saskatoon! the pilot asks us to lean left in our seats to help turn the plane so we go to Portland and not to Vancouver... me thinks he might be a touch Rockie Mountain High, considering we are at 30 thousand something Imperial, as he walks the main cabin with an oxygen mask and a huuuuuge grin see the distant Cascades through a crack in the shuttered windows, must be close to “the coast” (as if, harrumph, there were but one) ah, words in the clouds, ripe for the plucking must be getting close to Oregon, where poets grow on trees, woody words like **** and log-float poems down the Columbia to the sea gonna drink me some poets under the table cause this trip I ain’t no driving and I am already “flying” ‘n scribing and arriving on a high tide and a good wind
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here's to a package of Marlboro Reds in the hands of someone other than the Marlboro Man standing in for those slack-jawed outlaws my heroes now lack jaws tongues lungs I swear it's been too long since I inhaled manhood The Great Darrell Winfield rolled packed and filtered into the only thing I know that makes a man a man the essence of cowboy boots and farmer's tan in every drag see, I inhale my heroes all the dusty red-necked cowboys Darrell Winfield and my dad men whose lives went up in smoke to coat my throat in my own self-righteousness I'm frightened this is all that I'll have left of him lung cancer and the lingering stench of cigarettes he always smelled of cigarettes he'd pull me into these firm embraces he held so long that he'd suffocate me in tacky business and cigarette smoke masked only faintly by a poor man's cologne still I breathed him in until I'd start to choke it was too much man to handle my grandpa told me “smoking doesn't send you straight to Hell, but it sure does make you smell like you've already been there” he was a grown man cursing crying lying dying by himself trying to drown out the inferno with a case of beer but sobriety finds you sometime and I'd rather suffocate in cigarettes than lose him altogether and even if he smells like Hell at least that means he made it back
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May 21, 2012
May 21, 2012 at 6:14 PM UTC
The Marlboro Man
Raised in California grew up in the hood It’s where I first discovered my morning wood ***** I did detect became my *** *** Creating what looked like a perfect tee *** Didn't understand I was very young I would play Cowboys and Indians with it just for fun Till one day I saw my first pair of **** Looked at my pants I was hard and stiff Pop’s ******* magazines laid around for fun? I’m a ****** Scorpio I figured out how to *** The girls noticed me knew I was wild Would grabby feel me up I was no longer a child My **** is like a clock keeping time like it should My sunrise with a surprise My Morning Wood!
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Aug 31, 2013
Aug 31, 2013 at 4:52 PM UTC
Morning Wood
Cowgirl boots cost her just little pay She knows to play it safe Keepin them cowboys away Wants soft black fur To keep her warm at night... they say She murmurs by candlelight ... Country bear soothing... them Cowboys cause me fright She doesn’t want a man She’s lookin for a country bear That’s her true fan Cowboys want to make her purr But a country bear is gona stretch his paws and groan I finally found her Big bear wont mind what she does with that hair Cause he’s her country bear She’s his woman He’s her furry scare Try not to stare When they’re hittin the town fair Kissin at the top of that ferris wheel Ladies want to know What’s that she feel Township whispers.. there she goes Smoochin that big bear Maybe it ain’t no big deal This is too surreal Watching this They eatin cotton candy in complete bliss Later in fright Before the early light All the ladies pray Keep them cowboys at bay Send me a country bear like Miss Fray And we might promise to obey Her secret They want to know She said forget it Go to your rodeo Bears ain’t something I’m about to share That country woman That country bear It’s the perfect love affair
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Sep 1, 2018
Sep 1, 2018 at 12:25 AM UTC
Country Bear
A beautiful cover of silk and sky I could almost die It reminds me of the sea And a tiny flea It reminds me of a bee Which fills me with glee It reminds me of the blue bonnet Just like the glue gonnet I think of a blue smurf Which likes to surf I know a blue emoji Just like a goji The color of magic Which is created by hagic It is the color of a kitty's eye And a fly It is the color of the cowboys sign But not the color line
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Apr 24, 2015
Apr 24, 2015 at 11:22 AM UTC
Blue
Fingers cut palms as hands turn to stone And a catapult hurls the projectile home Knuckles collapse from bone meeting bone Down in the alleys where miscreants roam Suggestions of violence fill gutters with blood Fill heads with the sense of nefarious thrill Their skin turns to ash and their brains into mud Rage in the kingdom of eager to **** The children are soldiers who train everyday Cowboys and Indians, Robbers and Cops ****** is plot and the actors will play Portraying the place life will come to a stop Violence is cancer, and love is no more Edge of our seats waiting for the next war Dedicated to the deceased and forgotten, Love and Peace
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Oct 5, 2013
Oct 5, 2013 at 11:34 PM UTC
Violence, a sonnet
**IMMEDIATELY PLEASE REMOVE ALL OF MY INFORMATION FROM YOUR DATA BASE FORTHWITH.  ALSO, ADVISE ANY AND ALL CONTRACTORS, SUB-CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, SUB-AGENTS, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS, COLLEAGUES, ASSOCIATES, CLIENTS, WEBMASTERS, WEB BASED LINKS, WINKS, TWINKS, COLONEL CLINCKS, BOSSES, CO-WORKERS, EMPLOYEES, VENDORS, SUPPLIERS, SALESMEN, ASCCOUNT REPS/EXCS, ACCOUNTANTS, BROKERS, CO-BROKERS, HACKERS, SLACKERS, WHACKERS, JERKS, PIMPS, HOES, HOBOS, BUMS, DERELICTS, DEGENERATES, DOPERS, DEALERS, TWEEKERS, GAMBLERS, RAMBLERS, SOLICITORS, SIDEKICKS, COHORTS, WINGMEN, WHEELMEN, LOOKOUTS, OUTLAWS, IN-LAWS, RELATIVES, FIANCES, GIRLFRIENDS, BOYFRIENDS, FAMILY, FRIENDS, ENEMIES, EVIL NEMISIS', CANVASSERS, INQUIRERS, QUEERS, QUEENS, COWBOYS, KINGS, **** DRAGS, HAGS, HETEROS, HOMOS, TONY ROMOS, FEMALE IMPERSONATORS, (PRE OR POST) MALE IMPERSONATORS, ***** ***** VAN ***** **** VAN **** LESBIANS, LIARS, BUYERS, CRYERS, CIGAR SMOKERS, CARPET MUNCHERS, RUG RATS, TODDLERS, TEENAGERS, YOUNGSTERS, SENIORS, SUCKERS, TRUCKERS, MOTHER shut yer mouth, LAW MAKERS, LAWYERS, ATTORNEYS, JUDGES, POLITICIANS, PECKERWOODS, LEADERS, FOLLOWERS, DISCIPLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, SAVIORS, SINNERS, SAINTS, SOOTHSAYERS, MEDICINE MEN, GYPSYS, TRAMPS, AND THIEVES, WITCHES, WARLOCKS, VAMPIRES, LYCANS, ZOMBIES, WAR MONGERS, PROTESTERS, SOLIDERS, GENERALS, GOVERNORS, PRESIDENTS, PATRIOTS, PACKERS, LIONS, BEARS, BROWNS, BLACKHAWKS, REDWINGS, RIGHT WING, LIBERALS, OR LAW BIDING CITIZENS, THEY ARE NOT TO CONTACT ME AND LOOSE MY NUMBER. BUT IF YOU SEE MY MOM, TELL HER TO CALL ME. ........................................................................BA-ZING....................................................................**
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Dec 27, 2013
Dec 27, 2013 at 9:47 AM UTC
SPAMMER SMACKDOWN
**IMMEDIATELY PLEASE REMOVE ALL OF MY INFORMATION FROM YOUR DATA BASE FORTHWITH.  ALSO, ADVISE ANY AND ALL CONTRACTORS, SUB-CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, SUB-AGENTS, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS, COLLEAGUES, ASSOCIATES, CLIENTS, WEBMASTERS, WEB BASED LINKS, WINKS, TWINKS, COLONEL CLINCKS, BOSSES, CO-WORKERS, EMPLOYEES, VENDORS, SUPPLIERS, SALESMEN, ASCCOUNT REPS/EXCS, ACCOUNTANTS, BROKERS, CO-BROKERS, HACKERS, SLACKERS, WHACKERS, JERKS, PIMPS, HOES, HOBOS, BUMS, DERELICTS, DEGENERATES, DOPERS, DEALERS, TWEEKERS, GAMBLERS, RAMBLERS, SOLICITORS, SIDEKICKS, COHORTS, WINGMEN, WHEELMEN, LOOKOUTS, OUTLAWS, IN-LAWS, RELATIVES, FIANCES, GIRLFRIENDS, BOYFRIENDS, FAMILY, FRIENDS, ENEMIES, EVIL NEMISIS', CANVASSERS, INQUIRERS, QUEERS, QUEENS, COWBOYS, KINGS, **** DRAGS, HAGS, HETEROS, HOMOS, TONY ROMOS, FEMALE IMPERSONATORS, (PRE OR POST) MALE IMPERSONATORS, ***** ***** VAN ***** **** VAN **** LESBIANS, LIARS, BUYERS, CRYERS, CIGAR SMOKERS, CARPET MUNCHERS, RUG RATS, TODDLERS, TEENAGERS, YOUNGSTERS, SENIORS, SUCKERS, TRUCKERS, MOTHER shut yer mouth, LAW MAKERS, LAWYERS, ATTORNEYS, JUDGES, POLITICIANS, PECKERWOODS, LEADERS, FOLLOWERS, DISCIPLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, SAVIORS, SINNERS, SAINTS, SOOTHSAYERS, MEDICINE MEN, GYPSYS, TRAMPS, AND THIEVES, WITCHES, WARLOCKS, VAMPIRES, LYCANS, ZOMBIES, WAR MONGERS, PROTESTERS, SOLIDERS, GENERALS, GOVERNORS, PRESIDENTS, PATRIOTS, PACKERS, LIONS, BEARS, BROWNS, BLACKHAWKS, REDWINGS, RIGHT WING, LIBERALS, OR LAW BIDING CITIZENS, THEY ARE NOT TO CONTACT ME AND LOOSE MY NUMBER. BUT IF YOU SEE MY MOM, TELL HER TO CALL ME. ........................................................................BA-ZING....................................................................**
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Hare Krishna's In their Pickups Depressed Comics Down on their Luck Teenage Girls Screaming Meme's ****** Pinko's* Leftward Leaning Vincent Price Flo and Eddie Rodger Rabbit Priscilla Presley Nuns in Habits Dwarf's in Ponchos Deadbeat Dads Munching Nachos Right-Wing Nut Jobs Trading Slogans A few Hero's Including Hogan Are just a few of the sights you see At the front gates of Graceland Memphis, Tennessee Buddhist Monks With Electric Banjos Holding Signs Up Of Marlon Brando Taxi Cabs Blaring Show Tunes Pregnant Women Down-loading Soon Derby Jockeys Flying Monkeys Kool-Aidholics Skittle Junkies Bozo The Clown Bumper Stickers Psychedelic Crazed Toad Lickers Rhinestone Cowboys In their Skivvies Gothic Girls Heebie Jeebies Are just a few of the sights you see At the front gates of Graceland Memphis, Tennessee Blue Haired Granny's In pink Moo Moos Ballerina's In Tattered Tutus Mathematician's Number Crunchers Even have Some Out to Lunchers Model 50's *Do *** Daddies* One More Round Of Flo and Eddie People Sneaking Across the Border Lonely Fry Cooks Taking Orders A Few Wannabes Not Saying Much Will The Real Elvis Please Stand Up Are just a few of the sights that you see At the front gates of Graceland Memphis, Tennessee Thank you...Thank you very Much Ladies and Gentlemen Elvis...Has Left The Building
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Mar 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013 at 8:59 AM UTC
The Front Gates Of Graceland
It didn't matter if it was August, and the air felt like an oven on broil, or if it was February, and the dumpsters were icecicles to the soul. We needed ***** and since we didn't have jobs, the cans, at 5 cents a piece were our aluminum tickets to sweet relief. The magic click. Enough cans meant a bottle of whiskey ***** gin, anything to dull the sharp, vivid pain of life. We sifted through cat **** catsup ***** diapers discarded ***** mags, and all the other garbage from the rich and the poor. One winter morning, I threw back a heavy metal lid, and there was a fat raccoon looking up at me. If Bacchus or Dionysus were smiling, we found a full bottle. It happened once in a while during summer when the college kids headed home. Miles of walking, freezing or burning up, We were the aluminum cowboys.
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Jul 2, 2025
Jul 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM UTC
We were the Aluminum Cowboys
I remember my old Grampa And the way he used to look He had so many stories He was much better than a book I remember on our visits While the folks would head outside Gramps would get us grandkids And take us for a story ride He'd hitch up the hay wagon We'd get up and off we'd go Then gramps would start to talking And so began the show He'd tell us all the stories Of our folks when they were young Some he had to censor, And sometimes bite his tongue Now, Grandpa told the stories Whether we were in or out And we'd all sit and listen To what they were all about When we'd gather by the fire He'd pull up his rocking chair He'd have his pipe and all us grandkids And his dog, Whiskey, always there We'd all sit in front of Grandpa We'd want to take in every word And he would speak up louder To make sure that we heard He'd tell us tales of Cowboys Of bank robbers and the trail Of how the west became the west And how his horse once lost his tail The folks would gather round too When it was almost time to go But, Grandpa, being Grandpa Wasn't set to end the show See, he'd told the tales forever To our folks and all their friends You could tell that some were truthful And in some the truth....well....bends The older ones among us Knew deep down that most were fake But, to see old Grandpa work the room Man, that man just took the cake We'd get together monthly All us kids stayed close to home We weren't like lots of others Who had that built in urge to roam The stories, we'd learn later Were mostly from TV He'd be talking of those cowboys And of how things used to be A few years back we lost him His dog had up and died Gramps old heart was broken He couldn't take it, though he tried My brother tells the stories, Not as good as Gramps at rhyme But, the kids all hunker round him I'm sure that he'll be good in time We still go on the hayrides Tell ghost stories now instead To all us grown up grandkids We still hear grandpa in our head Each month we get together There's near a hundred now in all The kids go with my brother And he tells tales ten feet tall The stories are consistent Of old cowboys and the west I can close my eyes and listen And still like Grandpa's versions best
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Apr 26, 2016
Apr 26, 2016 at 11:47 PM UTC
Grandpa and The Stories
I remember my old Grampa And the way he used to look He had so many stories He was much better than a book I remember on our visits While the folks would head outside Gramps would get us grandkids And take us for a story ride He'd hitch up the hay wagon We'd get up and off we'd go Then gramps would start to talking And so began the show He'd tell us all the stories Of our folks when they were young Some he had to censor, And sometimes bite his tongue Now, Grandpa told the stories Whether we were in or out And we'd all sit and listen To what they were all about When we'd gather by the fire He'd pull up his rocking chair He'd have his pipe and all us grandkids And his dog, Whiskey, always there We'd all sit in front of Grandpa We'd want to take in every word And he would speak up louder To make sure that we heard He'd tell us tales of Cowboys Of bank robbers and the trail Of how the west became the west And how his horse once lost his tail The folks would gather round too When it was almost time to go But, Grandpa, being Grandpa Wasn't set to end the show See, he'd told the tales forever To our folks and all their friends You could tell that some were truthful And in some the truth....well....bends The older ones among us Knew deep down that most were fake But, to see old Grandpa work the room Man, that man just took the cake We'd get together monthly All us kids stayed close to home We weren't like lots of others Who had that built in urge to roam The stories, we'd learn later Were mostly from TV He'd be talking of those cowboys And of how things used to be A few years back we lost him His dog had up and died Gramps old heart was broken He couldn't take it, though he tried My brother tells the stories, Not as good as Gramps at rhyme But, the kids all hunker round him I'm sure that he'll be good in time We still go on the hayrides Tell ghost stories now instead To all us grown up grandkids We still hear grandpa in our head Each month we get together There's near a hundred now in all The kids go with my brother And he tells tales ten feet tall The stories are consistent Of old cowboys and the west I can close my eyes and listen And still like Grandpa's versions best
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i. the poem has a beginning exactly as you’d expect it: pa in sweatshirt, ma with purse; the funny thing is i never used to call them those names: “pa,” “ma,” always found them too cowboy-ish, too un-me, un-like us: who held chopsticks before dinner time and shared stories of how grandpa came over from china. ii. (at the dinner table) there is no symbolism here. there has been none for a while now. this household eats and eats in quiet. my grandmother is a poet but their books all burned down back in ’45 when mao stormed into fujian and all her uncles could eloquent on was that “the communists were coming!” “the communists were coming!” and instead of poems took with them their children, and their gold to pawn and their clothes on their muddy mortar-stained backs and the japanese iii. my grandfather now comes twice a week to the hospital for chemotherapy. it is a nice hospital. good view of the cleanest part of our ***** city. there are lights and white folks now. two things my dad said did not used to be there. they used to be spanish. they tilled our rice fields and spent the money on living rooms with lots and lots of space to sleep. we on the other hand, worked. he claims. your grandfather and his grandfather and i iv. awake every sunday morning at precisely 8:30. made to go down to the temple in kalesas and told to fetch the office paper for noontime reading. see we weren’t spoiled: grew up just next to the pasig river which back in the 70s did not smell as bad as sin only sweatshirts and the sweat we soaked them in we reeled along steamed fish heads and chopsticks for picking at them with and bowls of rice we never really ate with spoons. v. (back at the dinner table) i listen to my mom and dad sweat profusely in the evening heat only we can have here he in his sweatshirt and she with her golden purse, preparing to leave - a wedding party awaits - an jacket draped over his shirt just like grandfather used to do it in a sense, but gripping the chopsticks delicately for all us to see: “pa,” “ma,” v. it is not cowboys that give us our names.
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Feb 11, 2016
Feb 11, 2016 at 11:55 AM UTC
Pa wears a sweatshirt, ma carries a golden purse:
i. the poem has a beginning exactly as you’d expect it: pa in sweatshirt, ma with purse; the funny thing is i never used to call them those names: “pa,” “ma,” always found them too cowboy-ish, too un-me, un-like us: who held chopsticks before dinner time and shared stories of how grandpa came over from china. ii. (at the dinner table) there is no symbolism here. there has been none for a while now. this household eats and eats in quiet. my grandmother is a poet but their books all burned down back in ’45 when mao stormed into fujian and all her uncles could eloquent on was that “the communists were coming!” “the communists were coming!” and instead of poems took with them their children, and their gold to pawn and their clothes on their muddy mortar-stained backs and the japanese iii. my grandfather now comes twice a week to the hospital for chemotherapy. it is a nice hospital. good view of the cleanest part of our ***** city. there are lights and white folks now. two things my dad said did not used to be there. they used to be spanish. they tilled our rice fields and spent the money on living rooms with lots and lots of space to sleep. we on the other hand, worked. he claims. your grandfather and his grandfather and i iv. awake every sunday morning at precisely 8:30. made to go down to the temple in kalesas and told to fetch the office paper for noontime reading. see we weren’t spoiled: grew up just next to the pasig river which back in the 70s did not smell as bad as sin only sweatshirts and the sweat we soaked them in we reeled along steamed fish heads and chopsticks for picking at them with and bowls of rice we never really ate with spoons. v. (back at the dinner table) i listen to my mom and dad sweat profusely in the evening heat only we can have here he in his sweatshirt and she with her golden purse, preparing to leave - a wedding party awaits - an jacket draped over his shirt just like grandfather used to do it in a sense, but gripping the chopsticks delicately for all us to see: “pa,” “ma,” v. it is not cowboys that give us our names.
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Old Cowboys, forts and shootouts Black for bad and White for good With a spinning canvas background And cactus cutouts made of wood The desert sits behind them Fifty yards away at most The heroes don't ride horses They sip drinks and sit and boast About their celluloid adventures singing songs all dressed in white While behind them in the background The stunt men do it right A canvas background rotates Through valleys, hills and streams While the hero rides his deck chair And the director yells and screams Central casting fills the tribes out With Italians, and made up stock While our hero stops an avalanche Of fake paper covered rocks Cardboard Cut out Cactus And heroes smiling in the sun Most have never seen a cowpoke Let alone shot off a gun But, it's magic when it's finished the dusters up there on the screen All the fakery and snake oil Are all hidden, never seen The white hats beat the black hats The hero sings and gets the girl And the background on the spindle Is still spinning, watch it whirl A celluloid adventure Cowboys no where close to what they were But..watch the next show for a nickel And don't forget your spurs!!!
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Oct 5, 2012
Oct 5, 2012 at 9:22 PM UTC
Celluloid Cowboys
Motel moons, left of face In room 12, a thing named Grace She's missing ***** & he's missing eggs- Band-Aids on the neck Royal Hawaiian Big Ad's A-Flyin' (Bye!) Cowboys in black dusters And aliens in track suits Drinking coffee with the common man Blue-hooded and faceless, walks by again Third-reel-real headshot, Kept as a souvenir by an FBI actor A man can do a lot with his chin Uncle Sam's tonic & gin Not made to be an Earthling Not fit to be an alien Stars are flickering lights On Big Empty nights Three days in the desert Minus pie sauce in the sky What's in the blue suitcase? Why the blue bowling shoes to get to that place? "Just get on the bus, Gus... ... And get yourself free" Blue-sky clouds on black Whipped cream & jack The United States of Aliens And a Person in a circle
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Nov 25, 2011
Nov 25, 2011 at 9:19 PM UTC
Ruthie's Umbrella
From nowhere with love, on the teenth of martober. Dear madam, my darling, my sweet- but of no Importance that is. For your features no longer, To tell the truth, can be remembered. Not yours, Yet no one's best friend. I salute you from one of Five continents, which rests on the cowboys. Then I loved you more than angles, and even "Omni...", Hence, farther I am from you than- both of them. Far away, late at night, at the bottom of valley, In the town, where snow reaches the doorknob. I , Upon the sheet wringling, at least not as may be Described somewhere in the further line, I fluff up the pillow with "you" in a murmur, Over the mountains, which have no bounds or end, In the darkness, with the entire body, all your Features, as would a crazy mirrow, I recreate.
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Dec 12, 2017
Dec 12, 2017 at 12:03 PM UTC
"From nowhere with love..." translation of J. Brodsky
We're out at a bar splitting a good night of cheers Drinks and laughter flowing among peers Double shots dance around the table Tonight's the moment, tomorrow's a fable We garnish the laughter with Halloween What's your costume, how do you swing A chorus of "I'll dress up as a cowboy" Is met by a few rolling eyes, "I'll address their convoy" Not to be excluded is the gay guy in back that chimes in And competes with the rolling eyes, cowboys are mine Laughter of reveries spills faster than the drinks A 80's song, When Doves Cry, continues to play over the links A women crashes the party and exhorts the group Come on guys put your wings on, fly the coup Halloween's around the corner, make a splash, make waves Find your muse with a costume that stands up, and raves Look out to the horizon, the rarefied air, and trick for treats Find my tunnel of love with a costume that beats After a pause, a coy smile surface on rolling eye's lip Oh Melville come with me, come with me, and take a dip Double shots dance around the table Logan Robertson 10/19/17
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Oct 19, 2017
Oct 19, 2017 at 3:26 PM UTC
When Doves Laugh and Coo Over Halloween (With Writer's Notes)
~~ new born coconut leaves standing on the head of the tree a mild north chill breeze blowing raising sunlight reflects between the leaves the falling light playing on the meadows the growing day in to the fog's shadows the new moody breeze growing a little the cowboys wandering with the cattle the boy is very crazy with his flying kite, the birds are too busy within the day's light I am wondering through the shadows and finding my hopes within the meadows when thousands of kites flying in the sky there love growing on her gloomy eyes where there a few of dreams coming as the light falling between the leaves where there thousands of whirling hopes uttering in to the breeze   ~~ @Musfiq us shaleheen
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Nov 24, 2014
Nov 24, 2014 at 11:13 PM UTC
hopes of leaves
Script Zoom zoom goes the car with drug dealers Being chased by the cops in a spotted deal The exchange was spotted by the police Who gave chase six shooters drawn Firing at the fleeing BMW that sped away Bullets zinged into it others were fired back It was a right cowboys and Indians time Just like a movie film with John Wayne Who will win the cops or dealers? It’s just like a films script but real
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Sep 24, 2023
Sep 24, 2023 at 7:32 PM UTC
Script
*~~~ When the wooden door leads a little, To a force is put In the erst of the body fleece wells,   Sweet sweating as the dew is deposited The clamor of the known birds, Uttering, Be filled, North wind changes direction, Comes through my southern window When harmonic air, Passed over the yellow paddy fields, Farmers perches hope's aroma Into the hearts   At the mid of the noon, Cowboys keep exhaustion on flute Swelling of the new message, Leaves Flowers Fruits After a Long waiting, Pied crested Cuckoo singing Mating songs The peacock repeatedly whispering peahen My beloved, Your one "April" desires bought us, Cuddly child as the light purple rose And they say you Sing your song of arrival O' April O' come! Once Again! Show Your Cyclone form Engross your soul Bring the rain, Chill the Nature Add to birth New Child for the unscathed time ~~~ @Musfiq us shaleheen*
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Apr 15, 2015
Apr 15, 2015 at 4:08 PM UTC
April
Dear Seattle, I hate you You and your tall buildings made of steel and glass Your *** ridden streets And alleyways that smell of **** and ***** You, Seattle, the melting *** of Washington State With your ****** foreign old men Who reek of beer and cigarettes Who think they’ve still got it “going on” **** you, Seattle And your passive aggressive ways **** you and your parks littered with alcoholics and heroin-addicts Forget your clubs and pubs Your romantic cowboys Enlightened hippies And your dreamy emo kids Dear Seattle, I will not miss you
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Aug 22, 2010
Aug 22, 2010 at 9:21 PM UTC
Dear Seattle