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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri

Post Number: 2917
Registered: 01-2006

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Posted on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 11:31 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)


THE WINDOWS OF MY POPCORN TUMBLEWEEDS
a satirical poem by Mzuri


I am a pillow filled with

concrete and broken glass

my teeth have soulful eyes

and when I eat the airplane

I see your inner beginnings

tempted frazzled and burnt

rocky Rice-A-Roni



The ocean tree is dancing

swirling around a can of

Chicken of the Flowers

fantastical multi-colored

hard-boiled cabbage toothpicks

with peanut butter soldiers

drive me away



I am the jellyfish god

chrome spinner rims in my heart

the popcorn of my ankles

dances thru the corn rows

of his futile boondocks

cinnamon thoughts cloud

my tangerine optics



Smack dab in the middle

of the void of the desert

tumbleweeds and stickerbushes

blow thru the empty spaces

of my cradling sofa baskets

mushrooms topped with creamy

black whipped cream



My eyes taste your glowing

candle light doorways

my teeth see the fire of the

edge of mass absurdity

Ghana Barbie hates being beautiful

and the still water hears the laughter

of my macaroni and cheese



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Chrishayden
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Post Number: 3356
Registered: 03-2004

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Posted on Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 01:22 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Mzuri:

You got something here.
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Cynique
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Post Number: 6651
Registered: 01-2004

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Posted on Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 03:48 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

This poem engrosses and amuses. Reading it is like meandering through a maze of nonsense. It's like a verbal LSD trip. You got skills, Mzuri.
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Kola_boof
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Post Number: 3860
Registered: 02-2005

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Posted on Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 04:38 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Not speaking to anyone in particular

...but I really like that poem :-)

and just had to say so.





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Renata
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Username: Renata

Post Number: 1711
Registered: 08-2005

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Posted on Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 11:27 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

That is cool....see if you can find a way to turn it into song lyrics, a la Beck Hansen.

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