Ted Sheridan Poems

In so much that her legs are as long and beautiful
as the far reaching and graceful grasses of an African plain.
There in the midst, lying quiet and waiting; stillness is the virtue
of a hungry lioness and her pride.
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It is hard to remember when life has disappointed us
and we feel worn down and dejected….that
It never hurts to have the Big Guy on your side;
sometime we forget to praise him
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The night air off the ocean is very cool as it cozies up
next to me tonight; me drinking an imported beer. It reminds me
of that warm sweater shirt, the one with the zippered neck
that my wife’s mother gave me as a gift last year; the one
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I’m going to design and patent a fishing lure
With the face of Jesus, Mohammad, Jacob
or Gautama Buddha on the body
These lures will catch only the keepers
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The heavy rains had at finally passed
and it was the new Sun’s turn to shine
The little man looked up and out from under
his protective toadstool, his tiny eyes beaming
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His words do not stir much in the way of any intellectualistic theories
or understanding of what a poems construction should look like
or read. He writes as he lives his life, he writes with the blood
that he bleeds; with words like knives he cuts away at the meat,
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Blurred by too much rum and too little cola.
His eyes roll out the red carpet onto his cheeks
just beyond the reach of his dehydrated tongue; hours
of cunnilingus had left him thirstier than a dried
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Sometimes out of bored curiosity I will time
our conversations; at least her side
of one. The other day we were discussing
the stricter disciplinary actions
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Ask and you won't get an answer, not after today that is
Because Angie is leaving for her vacation and going out west
Where Velveeta can cut loose with a few of the local boys
And kick up her heels some... line dancing all night long
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My headphones covered my ears and effectively screened all of my calls
Answering instead all questions as to Mick Jagger’s longevity and fame
I was drinking up the sunshine and tomato juice cocktail simultaneously
Though one required wearing dark glasses and the other only a plastic cup
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