Ted Sheridan Poems

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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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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It is a dig to be remembered
Dark thick and wet in reality
The grave difference in texture
Between life and death
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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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I was gone for weeks this time and nobody missed me
It was just like the last time when I disappeared
Into the deep dark and dangerous jungle for a year
And when I finally emerged alive and well
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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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I just went to the grocery for the third time this week
My wife keeps running out of crap like coffee...or creamer
I never drink coffee...never...under any circumstances....
I'm only addicted to the booze and masturbation
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There is always tomorrow
or next year___
Bruised fruit and dull cutlery
pretty much sum up your life today....
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There is a black hole where all the pepperoni goes...
It can be found on a Sunday afternoon
Me tucking my buttocks under and my belly in,
adjusting my dough and package; while she
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