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"Aliens!" I...

"Aliens!" I shouted above the roar of the blaze.

Please rescue us from this godforsaken place
veritable hellscape, where angels fear ingress....

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Upon a dark and stormy...

Upon a dark and stormy night...

as jagged bolts of lightning
tore thru the the midnight clear
and figuratively ripped the sky...

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After the doomsday clock...

After the doomsday clock struck midnight...

a blizzard of blinding demoniacal
highly radioactive fueled banshees
(analogous to a...

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Filched formerly anatomical...

Filched formerly anatomical slender man - me! Thus I take a pot belly stance!

Absolute zero escape
velocity gutted dance
sing days (contra and square),
cuz...

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Oy vey iz mir, one day in...

Oy vey iz mir, one day in the life of a common house broken schmeckle...,

who did pötschke
and squander many an opportunity
to become a mensch
instead he became...

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Every January first of the...

Every January first of the new year...

finds me (a doggone muttering Homo sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock...

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Yours truly (me) just got...

Yours truly (me) just got acclimated to writing 2024...

whenever I needed to append the date to a document

Though the situation infrequently arose
...

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I owe appreciative courtesy...

I owe appreciative courtesy to alternative press...

for enlightening my senses
to the evocative, reciprocative
and suffocative
auditory...

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Zealous untiring repentance

Zealous untiring repentance

Fleshed out as poetic confessional.

Profligacy prevailed pricking psyche
precipitating...

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Circa ~vernal equinox 1996 ...

Circa ~vernal equinox 1996 ± small number of days

wrought the zygote
that resulted from the union
of a female gamete (egg, or ovum)
with...

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The following fictitious...

The following fictitious scenario I evoke

Analogous to fire breathing
puffed up imaginary dragon
(in a land called Honah Lee)
ye...

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Self love

Self love

It’s like a feeling you can’t escape
self love they say, turns into self hate
you can’t love...

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This December 17th, 2024...

This December 17th, 2024...

alternately titled: a literary retrospective when holiday times living hand to mouth in Penn Valley fraught...

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Unitarian Church returnee

Unitarian Church returnee

After a hiatus of countless years
plus an additional
almost three months
since a major...

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The question

The question

Pain knocks at the door, silent but loud,
Wrapped in shadows, wearing a shroud.

It asks no...

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Ah... methinks I could...

Ah... methinks I could sleep forever

Basking in a supine position
with eyes wide shut
while the space heater churns out
...