Patti Masterman Poems

Universe for sale; hardly used.
Well recycled, with resultant complexity of life forms-
Call SETI with best offer.
Terms: nothing down, everything comes with it;
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Social networking is starting to get a little scary;
Someday I'll be expecting
To see little modules
Replacing the what are you doing right now thing
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Omaira, I know there are no more birthday parties for you
(If you ever knew what one was)
And no beloved waiting for you, in Colombia-
Except for a hasty, poorly planned arrangement
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The alphabet of poetry is passion,
Though fallen out of vogue and fashion;
One of the old, forgotten tongues-
But wait, another idiom's just begun:
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the chess game, of moving all your words around
can entertain, but never satisfy:

you bait and switch, with relative pronouns;
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Incanto dreams, filtering through nets of darkness:
A once-lived hourglass of hopeful mirage, fading
Hours drifting away; fickle youth, faithful maturity
Come back again like enchantments, to whisper of loss.
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the song too makes play of love
as poetry in verse underlines the morning

for perfect pitch days have been written in rhyme;
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I wish that you could watch me
Sacrifice everything for you;
Step up, to that guillotine blade
My bearing proud; head up, eyes brave
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I've come to a decision:
I'm going to unplug you now;
It's useless; all these feeding tubes and wires,
They're feeding you blood, day and night-
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Your mutinous hijinx wanderlust
Has hijacked my vacuous neutron dust;
My element's voids are growing fatter,
As quarks and bosons get even gladder.
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