Ted Sheridan Poems

I have a flesh eating virus that is eating me
It loves red meat but won’t touch a fine steak
It feeds on me at night and wakes me with pain
As I strive to remember where I hid the morphine
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Tonight I looked at the many people attending the party and I noticed
Most of them had fresh adult beverages in their left hand while their right
Was reaching out to shake a hand or to pick another person’s pocket
One or two of the men were smoking pipes and speaking in mathematical terms
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We were watching the television when a fly landed on the screen
It walked across Yoko's forehead and stopped on the tip of her nose
My wife complained it was blocking her view of the show
But I didn’t kill it as it will be dead soon enough….
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They are taking his family home today
My friend called to ask if I could help prevent it
The auction starts promptly at two pm
Right there on his dream house’s front lawn
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So far I’ve counted fourteen song birds
Two mocking birds and one large crow
Sitting amongst the many leaves of the Moreton Bay fig tree
Which is located just outside my office window
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I feel the need to get down on my knees and repent my sins
God's ear was to the land and I know he heard me
Sneaking around in the dark as I planned to part
My remaining hair with a hollow point shell loaded with despair....
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The very wealthy and successful people
benefit from their Multiple Personality Disorders
Becoming actors and politicians....
The rest of us peons are just medicated....
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The old man had been channeling Albert for days
He had managed to make contact with him
while taking his morning constitution in the back
behind his custom built plywood paneled trailer
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Friday the thirteenth and my wife's aunt Haley died this morning
Oldest of ten children and she was one of the last to go
Held on long enough to say goodbye
To more than half her siblings....
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There are beings who can see you and I for 'what' we are
They can look at you or me and immediately size us up perfectly
I don't care if you are naked without a stitch of clothes and in the shower
Or if you're wearing the latest suit from Giorgio Armani out to dinner
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