delilah contrapunctal.... yes, that's how I intended to spell it......... Poems

where you can be bored, disgusted and repulsed.....
.and learn absolutely nothing...
.with the exception of how to be mean, short-sighted and other than curious...
.....fully illustrated with pathetically inept attempts at manipulation/basic and obvious games....
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blackberry trimmings and catkins shuffled to the roadside
to join maple and alder branches snapped by a hard rain
it is hollow
full with many
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among the vizslas
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the refined animals bathing in your eyes
splashing,
their painted claws
cupped to carry fragrant waters,
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gesticulate on this stage and any other
wearing the jester's motley....in lace, of course...
you have a season ticket....for all seasons... and reasons....
come in camouflage... if necessary...
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add an apostrophe....
sidle, wag, fluff and cajole
a squeeze of lime....
intermissionary positions are available....see that bell on the front desk?
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flatiron-shaped with a verdigris cupola
in the northeast-facing corner of the roof garden
pineapple sage and violets
seven german shepherds and
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chin whiskers
didn't slow that
joker down
he rode in
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we shall not fail to read together
escarole, the only lettuce to be cooked
I shall do my best to ignore your brother-in-law
all day lilies
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