Kim Barney Poems

Northern California, about 1971

The Zodiac Killer is causing panic
by murdering innocent citizens
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Four people in the barber shop,
and I am next in line.
There's just one face that has a mask,
and that one face is mine.
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When I was a teenager
I saw what I was sure
was a Gila monster lizard
on the Black Hills
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It's time again
for one small test.
It's White to move.
What is his best?
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I wanted to write a poem with a simile,
and tried for a long while.
Somewhere, somehow, it lost an 'i'
and all I had left was a smile.
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What relationship is my first cousin's first cousin to me?
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My old school marm, whose knowledge was ample,
had wit also, and here is a sample:
She once said, with some tact,
seeing all that I lacked,
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Perhaps you have wondered
or even yet, pondered
words pertaining to 'nose',
and the list, it just grows.
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God said Adam, What have you done?
Adam said, I'm not the only one!
The woman made me make a mistake.
Then Eve said, It was caused by the snake.
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