Emily Dickinson's Birthday Present
Miss Dickinson, You are a pear
Prickly in my bed
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As I twist and writhe and groan
As my spasms squeeze out moans,
As I kick wildly in my chair,
You ask me if I feel despair?
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I watch my Mentor weep
His hooded eyes fight the urge to sleep;
And yet they question him
To make him speak;
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There once was a stripper from Bagdad
Who breasts were so big that they sagged,
She tried taping them up
When a wind blew abrupt
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I celebrate my adopted daughter,
A compact bit of law and order
Who leaves this Monday for boot camp
Eager for The Army's stamp;
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Were Time a movie I could inhabit....
I'd play it only on the Sabbath; ....
Seeing you, your broad rimmed smiles, ....
A sultry woman, a trusting child; ....
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Nguyen Chi Thien
You pious frauds of twisted truth
You who've robbed me
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And I thought you loved me for my mind!
The sweetest fruit is not the rind;
That's the reason I went to college;
I've packed my mind with lofty knowledge;
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Penguins lined as dominoes,
Standing stiffly in the snow,
Wobbling to stand upright,
To warm their eggs tucked out of sight;
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A handsome woman
Walking up the road
Making a mercy visit
To a neighbors house;
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