Patti Masterman Poems

I'm shipwrecked wood and plaster,
Wormy statues of maritime disaster,
Chained-shut gates forever after,
Molded louvers closely cloistered.
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In falling worlds I shudder,
Twitch and grimace
Shoved first this way, and that
By fate, by momentum
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Could be that the true soul
Is stretched tautly thin
Throughout the hidden world-
Thinner than a quark crepe,
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The rocket went off like a bat out of
Pell-mell, it ricocheted, son of a
Ditched the boosters to head for the blue
Another fudruckers going straight to heaven
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A Nony Mouse I be
My tail is most of me
I run about the house, I creep
I only come out when others sleep
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Don't be jealous what others have written
In their own frame and time of season
They are there in the place they've awoken
To write down words gleaned from their reason
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Be dauntless, though the world has knives-
And you have but a single life.

Be brave, though some are braver still-
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White feathers falling,
When an angel flew close by;
There's nothing up above us,
But I saw him, on the sly.
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One legged hop; and login, login
Turn around and stop; then login, login
Hop on other leg; to the login, login
Leg cross jumps now, login three times
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Dogma in my hymn: I am God
Dog, as a devil deified; deified, lived as a dog
Dog sex, even if fine, vexes God.
Dog's a fool: aloof as God.
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