John W. McEwers Poems

A woman sits beside me
struts, fiddles with her hair beside me
she looks like she's
one hot moment from
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She's one heart
one head
two legs
ready
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A lonely spoon
and alone, me too
on a happening Saturday
under the American bright lights
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I miss those singers
who'd just make noises in the microphones
and the ladies would swoon and
remove their clothing backstage
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Oh, I ate a burger in a bathtub
now the lady left me
ate a burger in a bathtub
and my life fell from me
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You look so pretty, so hot
You look like what I'm not
You have such slender legs
I like to eat poached eggs
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I love the way women look in men's shirts
those buttoned ones especially when
the shirt is off center because
the buttons are in the wrong holes
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Mr. Baby Man talks like a baby
to his woman like he wants a mother
not a lover
and he calls her on the phone to say
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Bad Coffee tastes like water
bad water tastes like sulfur
bad sulfur tastes probably pretty awful
but all I got, baby, is coffee.
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They tell me I'm a phony
but over just a sandwich,
that's baloney!
A mustard pimento fallacy
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