Joseph DeMarco Poems

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1.
The Persistence Of Memory

We all hear the internal clock ticking,
A self-contained Doomsday device,
Melting like a candle in the desert heat
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2.
Dancing With Dragonflies

Flip-pity fly,
Swoop-pity sail
Catch a dragonfly
By the tail
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3.
The Forgetful Fisherman

The forgetful fisherman was as wise as he was forgetful.
Some even said that he used to be a Zen Master,
but that was along time ago and he had forgotten about that.
Early one morning a little boy approached the fisherman asking him for advice.
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4.
Huckleberry Finn's Raft

“Huckleberry Finn, a shaman, the Lizard King and me…were floating on a raft down the Mississippi, ” Siann heard Joe Kaye announce, as if he were a narrator in a play. Siann felt like she was the audience, but there was no stage, they were really on a raft. And there was really a black medicine man with white face paint and hoops through his nose. There was really a guy who looked like Jim Morrison with a beard and a large gut, and there was a dirty little boy in overalls with no shirt, and well, of course, there was the False Prophet of Fennimore Place: Joe Kaye. It seemed to Siann that she was invisible to the other four members, as they paid no attention to her. They (Huckleberry Finn, the shaman, the Lizard King and Joe Kaye) seemed to be involved in a strange discussion.

“The soul is not whole, the secret’s been stole, ” Jim said in a voice that was quintessential Morrison. The raft floated through an eerie, ominous fog that engulfed them in a mist. In the middle of the raft on the ground in the center of the four of them, was a large, circular, silver disc. There were several trinkets, a glass statue, and several shiny objects lying on top of the large disc. Joe Kaye spun the disc; as it moved it glinted in what little light the fog allowed.
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5.
Rainy Day In Baseballland

It was a rainy day in Baseballland
The players were home in bed
One rookie rolled over his eyelids a flutter
With dreams of a stand-up triple running through his head
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6.
We Can'T Work It Out

Every time I bring up the subject,
We get caught in the loop
perpetually.
It is as if we are frozen in this amber
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7.
Mother Culture's Lullabye - The Culling Song

She sings to us,
Even when we hear no sound,
Especially when our eyes are closed.
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8.
I Met A Young Girl, She Gave Me A Rainbow

blAck pearls

and broken ocean sHells
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9.
Literal And Figurative

Literal and Figurative
Are one in the same thing
I literally have a heartache
From that unused Diamond Ring
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10.
Magic Words

In the land of the lost
They dug up a book of magic spells today
No one had seen spells like this before
Some of them were extremely weird
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