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---- word biscuit ----
-> chipmunks the size of watermelons edition <-
05-11-96 - ray heinrich
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it's may and that means it's time for chipmunks to get large
and the rest of us to get ready for summer or just maybe
enjoy spring a bit more. here are some poems i hope
will amuse you.
-ray
< normal spring day >
At the nursery I get a cactus.
To be truthful, I get two.
The cacti add up.
And the flowers are beautiful,
but I resist.
Thank goodness,
as I'd just have to plant them.
"Or more likely buy them and not plant them",
say my yellow primroses from last year
madly blooming but still in their nursery pots.
I stop for a donut.
Two, to be truthful.
Well, to be closer to the truth.
Then I continue
with the new leaves
and birds and birds.
A tall tree I can't identify
seems to be steaming in the sun,
but is really
filling the air with cottony seeds.
My dog chases a dragonfly,
the first I've seen.
- - -
< early times >
leaning
into a sharp turn
swapping
history and hopes
the brush of your hand
a close warm breath
reaching back
for what you're handing me
finding
your soft breast
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< wet to the skin >
thunderstorms roll through
and i watch the rain
dripping off your shirt
wet to the skin
the rain
dripping off you
covered
by your wet shirt
that flashes
with lightning
to the south
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< only teenagers can need it so bad >
texas
on the way to
liberty texas
we
hafta stop
to fuck on the hood
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< silk bikini >
i'm looking back
waiting for you
in your silk bikini
missing the top
and the bottom
i want to see you
exactly as you are
right before fucking you
right before you get
what we've wanted all day
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< ginger writes me >
the words
fall one after the other
put there by ginger
by you
if you're ginger
one after the other
with the picture you enclosed
of your daughter
and of course
you
would name her ginger too
the ginger that lived with me
from a child of 4 to 6
while you were off
for holding those drugs
a long time ago
but ginger
came through just fine
and at 22
she looks like you
same hair and nose and all the
soft pieces fit together
so i can't help thinking
maybe
it's you again
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< ginger shows up >
ginger shows up
on her boyfriend's motorcycle
says her mom
is up to herself again
and i guess i have to help
which will piss off my wife
cause she's guessed
what i never told her
but i hop on
arms
around her waist
trying not to act
like i feel her breasts
with each bump in the road
and thinking of when
i used to bathe her
of those sweet lips
between her legs
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< visions >
you say visions are overrated
you have several every night
and at least one
each day
usually at lunch
when they serve the tuna noodle casserole
of course
i have only you to trust
not the wisest thing
cause in your family
you either lie
or end up on the floor with bruises
but you always call them
rose tattoos
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< these stars treat us too well >
- after a sylvia plath poem
the stars drop silently
each message lit
through years and years
of vacuum
evaporated
all the first sweet essence
until us
poor souls of lead once uranium
linger
turn
like jupiter
who thinks he's mercury
like saturn
who wants to be distant pluto
willing to give up her rings
for a far dark silence
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< it seems bees have a notion of honor >
(after reading a poem by sylvia plath)
my fantasy
poor fantasy
i am not crazy or genius enough to come to you
but after reading this
i want
to keep you close
to find out more
i know
you were a complete trouble in this life
born
at a wrong angle
born
with the pain to shout this loud
and louder and louder
to greet us
with your puzzle
with your furious capacity
to fill us
til we burst
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< gratuitous wordage >
a lot of people ask for coffee
and a little kiss in the morning
using only the words they need
but poets
(and you've guessed it by now)
kill for the pleasure of it
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bye for now.
-ray
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and all this stuff is (C) 1996 ray heinrich
you have my permission to copy it and post it wherever you want
as long as it's not-for-profit and you include:
"(C) 1996 ray heinrich - comments welcome send to: ray@vais.net"
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