Author: cfblack
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The Couch
Change your filthy clothes Before you sit on the sofa Don’t put your feet on the couch If you want to sleep go to your bedroom Sit up straight, so three people can sit down Those cushions don’t belong on the floor You two keep your hands to yourself This ain’t no whorehouse When your…
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Oh, hell no!
After the storm, in the middle of the night I awoke from dream Telling my wife the baby was hungry and needs nursing That ship sailed long ago with a vasectomy in 1986 She said wake up You’re talking in your sleep, again 5-25-20
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morning haiku
still wet the morningsunlight asks the dark to leavetrees drip last night’s rain 5-23-20
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Foraging the forest during the pandemic
Each morning, when the red-crested woodpecker calls out, again and again and again he puffs his chest goes tchurrrrrr-charr-charr-charr tchurrrrr-charr-charr-charr-chiiirl….. In the debris of the forest floor morels spring up like yachts and private jets feeding on corporate welfare rot Senate scattered for Wall Street handlers In mossy rust-belt northern woods we call them peckerheads…
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woodpecker haiku
waiting for drum roll wood peckers pipe mating calls trees drip last night’s rain https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t… 5-20-20
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for Dan
I don’t know why but tonight I wondered what became of your ashes after the state paid for your cremation Is there a field made holy where the indigent recline with last years leaves? I am waiting for Siri to call out from my GPS “Your destination is on the right” so I can speak…
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and I think it’s going to rain today
(stream of consciousness poem) On my sixty-eighth birthday a tropical depression spins offshore and the forecast is for rain all week and I worry about whole beaches being torn from the shore and the song ‘And I Think It’s Going To Rain Today’ is caught in the riptide in my head and I curse Randy…
