John Oates to This Day
An OG Love Affair
you’re my one little vicodin
and i’m your 2nd bottle of shitty tequila
together
forever
not feelin’ a thing
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Delusional Druthers of the Corn
gazing upon the reflecting window of future fiscal fortune
all that i see
are the murky promise-clouds
that my fifth-grade Indiana teacher and John Mellencamp
kind-of sort-of
promised me
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The Self-Fulfilling Proverb
If you chew it and stick it on a wall in Seattle,
they will come and take pictures of it.
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Slug Sponge©
Tuesday morning.
I found a slug on the kitchen sponge.
this could have been a sign from above,
or a harbinger of things to come.
it might have been a metaphor on life,
or even the rejected title of Sheryl Crow’s 1993 debut album.
Tuesday morning.
I found a slug on the kitchen sponge.
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Change²
driving past Chief Sealth’s grave,
i wondered what he thought about
what we’ve done to the place.
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Monsanto Limerick of the Damned Don’t Rhyme
What if men the planet-wide
Were capable of retaining their virginity until the age of 35?
Hope might spring eternal,
And Erik Prince would still be in
Angola prison.
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The Vigilant Lens 