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Cursory No More
Younger than my age older than my years life can be a cage imprisoned by fears
Always a deadline never certain when anxious countermine all over again
Trying to let go live life here and now haunted by although can’t remember how
Itch scratch itch and scratch some things never change spots rubbed raw won’t patch part ways wise is strange
Jamie White graduate of Colgate University, student of Tai Chi Chuan and Qi Gong |
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Inside Scoop . . . Princess And The Pea: The Pea Pleads His Case
Where would this story be without the pea, and don’t tell me you ever granted me a though before it’s always the prince, the kingdown, who will, who won’t humble pea beneath so many cheeks, nasty chore
Scripted to do my part, girl after girl, after girl, after . . . what kind of pea do you take me for mattress has all the fun, muffled kinky laughter bottom most feelings awkward and inferior
Prince finds princess, sensitive as a rare flower the other girls go home, luckier than they know perfect fruit guaranteed to turn perfectly sour each ordinary life, an extraordinary show
I do not merit the most minor mention in history But does no recipe allow for this old forgotten pea
Jamie White |
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A Line Is A Dot That Decided To Take A Walk
A stain is a crumb That had too much to drink Stuff falls more to come Could be penance you think
Movement leaves a wake Cells and dust ring your feet Mites munch meals we make Aromas of faint heat
Fickle a traction Whim keeps polka dots spaced Each whole a fraction Outer innerlaced
Here and there and lunch Laughter hiccups and a spill Enough hints prompt a hunch Have to move can’t sit still
A Circle Is A Line That Never Ends
Jamie White |
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broken umbrella
part of me is partially damp most of me is soaked squishy 2 much 2 little h2o you cramp wet so past drenched i am turning fishy
windmangled rainwater sluices river of rivulets drown my shoeses h2o h2o every where is it fair to be told life is not fair
I like to hear a man named marvin if jokes were food no one be starving he recites his limericks at starbucks if ducks don’t walk how can there be lame ducks
synchronize your watches now throw them away sky does not need cows to have milky way
nothing wrong with a non-sequitor unless of course your from ecuador
did you know muskrat’s tails are both rudder and flipper cinderella’s allergic to gold in her slipper
Jamie White |
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