Letting go..?

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Erstwhile etiquette

As St Christopher stood waiting on her doorstep and Montezuma haunted the alabaster halls Guadalupe wandered her garden drawing moustaches on the walls Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Smokin Red Hot

Oh, I've got the blackest blues I've just heard the news My green eyed, red top, is back in town They say you're hangin round McCools, till the quarter is after three A smoke in one hand, in the other a daiquiri Velvet of voice, racy hips buxom bosom, ruby lips and long tan legs that go on forever... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

So I've just returned from

the deep dark jungles of the Sahara Where I went to document the fading art of Piano Juggling " Piano Jugglers of the Rain Forest " A tribute to a nomadic tribe of incredible deftness who were once famed near and far for their amazing feats of Piano Juggling Myboottoo the chief of the tribe invited... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Roseanna Banana

Somedays I jus goes whichever way the wind blows Oh I knows we're suppose to plot each and every step carefully to reach nirvana but I jus feel like smokin this havana dreamin of Rhiana and idling some hours away in the sunshine in my hammock and rockabye sweet baby Cross Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Senorita Margarita

I saw the most beautiful girl in the world just the other day She was wandering happily through a field of poems Her hair was streaked with silver She had little laugh lines round her eyes the cutest dimples in her cheeks and I fell hopelessly head over heels in love Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 31, 2008

Needle nardle nose

Fairy Bright, the little sprite perches casually on the end of my nose Clipping her toenails, letting the chips fall where they may I really don't mind nor feel distressed Oh no, I feel so wonderfully blessed To have such a delightfully impertinent little creature feel so completely comfortable... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Please don't let me be

Miss Understewed My love is a hippopotamus with a ginormous bottomus She wags her finger thus and quotes Sir Polygamous saying " Let us retire to my quarters where we shall dine on watermelon wine pizza stew and wallpaper glue " She plays me dirges on her didgeridoo while I wax eloquently on Plato,... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Ying tong iddle i poe

" There are no short cuts to the prime cut, amigo " latina, Lopez of Las Cruces says " No whys in exes and ohs No gibbons in a waning gibbous moon " It's waning it's pouring the old man is imploring of minstrel, muse and Mother Goose of Father Times rare lapis lazuli wine of springtime cherries... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 28, 2008

To Sam, Elyse, Troosha, SoulSpeaker

and probably more that I've yet to discover All right ladies You're not making my labor of love an easy one Just when I think that you've written the most perfect poem I'll ever read you go and post another even more beautiful than the last From which of the many wells will I have to draw from to... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

I'll never forget

old " what's his name " I'm so tired of feelin bad about the things I've never had any control over I was left on the doorstep of a nunnery late one night the nuns took me in but on seeing I was jus a little boy the Mother Superior sent me off to the asylum that was home? to abandoned little boys... Sign in to see full entry.

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