What is the big deal
about a horse-head in a bed?
I’ve seen scarier things on the subway.
Don Corleon’s got nothing
on The Dude, Ricky Bobby
or Lieutenant Frank Drebin.
Mark Wahlberg is a scarier
hit-man. I’ve seen scarier mustaches
in James Bond movies,
and tougher men
in the aisles of Fairway.
I’d rather watch a marathon of Star Wars.
– Scratch that – I’d rather watch
the prequels to Star Wars.
© Umansky 2013
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No one cares, Piggy.
Find your own way out.
Transportation can be unreliable.
Boys will be boys.
© Umansky 2013
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There is nothing deserving in you.
No great taste or color. You are
putrid, in the way that puke is
putrid. Your spice and scents are
ill-natured. My hot dog shuns you.
My corned-beef shuns you. Even, I, shun you.
You are not allowed in my kitchen.
I don’t care who might someday
crave your stench. I forbid you cross this
threshold. Mustard, you disgrace
the name of Seeds everywhere.
You disgrace all the fairies of
Midsummer Night’s Dream.
© Umansky 2013
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You ruin everything with your juice
and your pimples.
You don’t even know how
to share. You hog everything.
Why do you think those
French Fries want your kiss?
You’re so entitled. Why don’t
you just go back to your home?
We’re all stocked up, here.
© Umansky 2013
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I’ll try and play along; any word would not be able to be enabled into a good way of handling.
If a brass tendered; or a brass-membered a message changed in coloring, I’d discuss it here.
I would take three courses, (for I’ve got a nasty tongue) and a pile of saucers and these old stories would tell of the so-simple exchange. A fault in syllable and letter started with a right-jerk, andandand a left-jerk; and, where I left-off,I shall then begin again.
Again, any dull man can and any dull man could and would. There’s no more to explain of this dance; it is a love-sweet thing and when salted or stale, it grows over-boiled and tart.
© Umansky 2013
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I was so very proud to tell fellow visitors today that I was a #bookdress made out of 5 copies of my1st book of poetry, Domestic Uncertainties . Some asked to touch me; Others wrote my name down or asked me to spin around. (#bookdress is made by Joseph A. W Quintela — http://footknots.com)
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Let us count that you regard
and I regard
the changing of the tides
the sea of the last
We are tenaciously taking the tides
in favored abandons.
We are contempting the contemporary
or co-tempting the contemporary
into a kind of sin.
We are doing more than channeling
When we laugh
When we strategize
In-my-day, I was a believer
In-my-day in my day
In-my-day in my day
The dial-up had a certain purr
That ruffled my roost.
That’s lost, now.
*
Now, you, you, let alone with the golden.
Let the golden wilt and wild.
We can construct the past
Potshot the pristine
Here, coordinate my sprawlings
Together, this could be nostalgia
© Umansky 2013
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Happy National Poetry Month, friends.
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[1]
There will be fat years and lean years,
but either way it’s going to rain.
[2]
There are men’s voices in our heads,
but every so often a woman goes to the top
every so often a woman takes two
stairs at a time two
Here’s an imperative: a reason to be.
This isn’t a slumber party.
I am not others.
I resend. I rescind. I recall. I remind
[what? I don’t
…. recall]
[3]
Rounded. I am well-rounded.
Will I wear this box?
Will you?
Will you, with me?
Wear it with me.
© Umansky 2013
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