Stan Petrovich Poems

One cell cringing
in commotion;
Sauropods succumbing
to gravity,
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the city is sinking - i have measured it
it is on its last legs - though i treasred it
you few who stood agape & rebelling
you may now found a new city where one had been sitting
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One never knows.
A beast with tearing claws
Or the golden pond.
There might be doom alighting
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She longs for peace so much
That a thatched cottage appears
Round her when she sleeps.
Snowbound, a resting place for a man
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When the last srteaks of the glorious
Red-bloated sun envelop the earth,
All is forgotten:
The bluebell patterns on simple skirts,
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The Duckster...
Born choking with cash,
even sent to military school,
like some damned fool,
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Do as I do, not as I say;
Find an effing way;
Go beyond the stupid teacher;
Be your own inner creature.
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After he scored & injected,
he wrote t was like sighng in a warm bath.
He was paranoid,
being both priest and doctor.
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My brother and I were falsely
Convicted for the rape and slaughter
Of a 13-year-old girl; but we weren't
There: we were shooting pool.
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Can't hold it like I used to;
The pee is a dominant force of Nature:
(Emerson must have written about it someplace):
In high school I could traverse dry terrain aplenty:
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