Ted Sheridan Poems

I’m a dead man already because I didn’t chew my food thoroughly
and I drank far too much whiskey and rum, vodka and gin
beer and Mexican bottled piss; I drank it by the gallon, warm and smelly
and then recycled it into my morning juice just before sitting down to shit bricks
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___I can remember when I was a boy
how much fun it was to throw dirt clogs
and play with wart frogs instead of girls
___It was okay for a boy to be a boy
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Crazy people
who think themselves to be sane
crazy people
all around me....they are everywhere
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I remember as a child I had a deep seeded fear of heights
I would envision my demise long prior to even a possible fall
Once as a teenage boy I knocked a front tooth from my mouth
When I jumped twenty feet into a drainage ditch next to our house
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To be sure, one must never allow
the implied structure of the question
to dictate one’s answer; because many questions
are intentionally phrased as a lie
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She says she finds his writing to resemble that of Bukowski
Then she took his member into her mouth and courageously swallowed more than his words....
Bukowski would have been flattered by any of her many comparisons
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A man matures
and growing older
he soon realizes
that without a woman
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Bone by bone and limb by limb
My life which was purchased
With your blood money
Is now to be placed upon the block
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My dreams lit the fuse that ignited my brain
Causing my mind to explode into colors of death
Black with the undertones of a pale mortician
Drained of a vibrant reality, with copper pennies for eyes
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Mom never went on tabloid talk shows
appearing in her underwear and cursing at our Dad
or any of his many 'Mousey' secretaries
Maybe because back then there was no 'Springer'
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