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'Pon bing asked by spouse, while she didst dock
and pooched herself abed
handily at nine o'clock
to see "handsome" pedigree dentastix
dog face of yours truly, me no Kid Rock
yea just a chip off the

ole likeness ice sculptured block,
a sharp pain inexplicably
shoots thru left shoulder blade
generating painful electric shock,
especially after said missus
threw smelly sock

afflicting this muttering chap, where deadlock
partial paralysis analogous to rigor mortis
holding frozen designated
bleep within his flesh bound paddock
(as pop sic hull), non dominant side
of mine body hard as bedrock

(spoiler alert, I write with right hand),
despite best college try, could not extricate...
hell no, this ain't no poppycock
yea, this longfellow felt bewitched by a warlock
which affliction froze botox smile
engendering gladness to celebrate bajillion

years of blissful wedlock
believe that and I will another truth,
how this lame rhyme stir, he makes buttock
of himself, nonetheless an
oar regional non Jew bull ant debtor,
sans courtesy Shylock

still prone to bouts of flibbertigibbet
ranked as more than schlock,
(no doubt, ye beg to differ)
with mine chock
lot of badinage, basically self mock
curry verging on persiflage, he

freely types what occurs within raw bitstock
of ma noggin akin to babbling
stream of consciousness
initially intending to divulge aftershock
when wife coos this kook

spewing wry verbal
(barley comprehensible) feedstock
as she mimes deadly smooch
inflicting plastered smirk ad hoc

showing pearl white dentures
aiming to entertain, while listening awk
chilly (inspired to contrive
potschke and pastiche) rendered
(if still alive) by P.D.Q. Bach.
Manu Stynes Jul 25
The tyrant clouds bellow outside the building
my eyes had yet not caught them
but my bones rattle and vibrate
portending the doom that will soon shower me

Yet you packed my groceries
as you have done before
yesterday, yesterday's yesterday,
and yesterday's yesterday's yesterday

Your body is a memory
reflecting every trace of your existence
Your eyebrows are down
they're as dark and impending as the clouds outside

Your lips pursed
imprisoning the voice that would woo me
Your eyes downcast
holding that stare that would scare these clouds away

I could tell you a thousand things
and tell you a hundred of those
that you make me step outside
and face the storm

But I'll never talk to you
I don't know when your break is
because I don't work here
even though I wish I could

But then you'll be different
you'll be changed
a separate memory
unalike the one I used to see

Just let me hand to you
the yogurt and Dentastix
and you'd chuck them
inside the crunchy paper bag

The cashier will never know
of us and this experience
She will hand me the money
while I take my heart back from you

All of this
I mean all of this
will be washed and flooded away
and I know I'll be swallowed

by the flood of the great clouds
and I don't know when I'll come back
I just want to see you
when you're about to give me one last look

I'd return them
squeezing every second
wishing I could stare at you
until the flood dries out and the grass grows green

But by then your body
your eyes, your eyebrows
your lips would become another memory
I would still like to see them

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