Barry Van Allen Poems

This one just escapes me,
Amish girls from 6 to 12 were lined up at the blackboard,
and executed!
When the troops were coming in...
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Famous lady will you come with me,
I would like to show you something.
Put on an ugly hat and glasses,
not meant to flatter you,
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I have outlived some of the people that I call friends,
there is no one more surprised than I am,
- - - on the other hand,
so far, so good...I guess!
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You just proved his point...

He didn't call you stupid, man - - -
he said 'dis-educated', and that you
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I was going to be a pro baseball player,
- - besides not being good enough,
- - I also couldn't spit enough,
but, the crotch-grabbing part - - -
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You play first base, I'll play second,
I will leave it up to you - - -
Between shortstop and third - - -
one way or the other,
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I'm not sure that you quite understood,
how hard it hit the rest of us...
We all felt deeply so undone,
We felt unraveled, uncollected...
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I am afflicted with it,
I'm a 'short - nosed elephant ',
I remember everyone and everything.
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I'm not sleeping, and you know it,
because you kissed me, and I kissed back.
The bathroom light is on,
the shower preparation silhouette...
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It rained all over me all night,
and I got good and wet,
at first I shook my fist at him,
it didn't seem to do much good.
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