bob eichen Poems

I HUNGER
At breakfast
For rib eye steak, four eggs over easy, hash browns, biscuits and gravy and a bloody Mary.
BUT I HUNGER FOR YOU MORE
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Squeek, squeek! Went the mouse.
Eek, EeK! Cried the spouse.
Then, ran the husband,
Like a hero,
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The Evolutionary War Wife: Wife created in likeness of diety, concludes husband descended from ape.
The Uncivil Wife War: Slave man uprises against cruel evil owner.
The First World War Wife: The wife to end all wives. War declared. It ended.
Wife World War Two: No peace in our time. After years of conflict, loser Wife passes Marital Martial Plan. Husband gives all money to rebuild loser.
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I am the flower Touch-Me -Not
When I'm touched my seeds come out.
Although I'm called the Touch-Me-Not
I love it when my seeds come out
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If God sits idly by
while people starve.
What good is he?
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Today,
I choose to hate!
I'm hungry.
So I'll hate the race of Macrodonts, with their huge white teeth, that gnash and gnaw and munch and crunch as they eat up all the food.
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The winter comes,
and with it the renewal of hostilities.
The undeclared, but mutually agreed upon truce will end.
The weather of spring and summer is but a warm memory.
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Beautiful Heaven
Bloody Hell
Oh, how all the Black Angels fell...
Ariel
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Don't want no motherly
Don't want no brotherly
Give me your otherly
Smother me utterly
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My life is a cacophonous opera.
I HEAR YOU.

My life is a bad meal, tasteless and inedible.
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