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  Over My Rainbow

  

  By PaulMental, Oshkosh, WI

  All the world needs is a little renovation, a man like me with a lick of innovation. Do you feel the good vibes as they start resonating? The fine vibrations of the masses celebrating? It seems like everyone's chasing pots of gold. I get mine when I take a slide down my rainbow. Everythin...
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  Organ-ized

  

  By PaulMental, Oshkosh, WI

  As the grand clock toned my entrance home was coupled with an aura so sore. When I emptied my satchel, up from my work's gravel came my folder upon the bedroom floor. Once a vivacious soul one may favor; a centerpiece of my workplace to hold such papers but his image did dictate of how ...
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  Matter of Perception

  

  By PaulMental, Oshkosh, WI

  Your bloodshot eyes, your pale skin, your blank smile, am I selfish for wanting to take this from you? You were an athlete, but now you struggle to escape the dirty couch or exit your house. You were social, but now you only watch re-runs. They will never change, not like you have. You w...
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  Dearest

  

  By PaulMental, Oshkosh, WI

  Your whole essence can be displayed by the click clack of your shoes along the track. Your fiery, ostentatious passion clashes with your nice, soft, gentle style. Your brown hair flows, corresponding to the wind's howl. Your welcoming presence may entice a timid boy to prowl but then ...
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  Sacrifice

  

  By PaulMental, Oshkosh, WI

  If my muscles aren't big enough, they make injections for that. You might have to hold me down. (I hate needles). If I'm not fast enough, I can load my body weight on a sled and pull until it rusts. If I'm too fragile, I'll slice off my limbs and procure robotic attatchm...
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  At the Cost of Pleasure

  

  By PaulMental, Oshkosh, WI

  I ate a Big Mac today. It felt like loveless sex. I left her in bed; ketchup and cheese all over the sheets, I tolder her I had to leave to feed my dog, Butch. She doesn't know I'm a cat person. My wife still thinks I'm a vegetarian....
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  Clansmen

  

  By PaulMental, Oshkosh, WI

  People are frozen with fright as our vicious frames enter their sight. We strut as we show off our ostentatious tentacles and tusks which deter any questions regarding our superiority. It's sweet being a monster or a beast. We seemed to have become both revered and feared among our pee...
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  Humble

  

  By PaulMental, Oshkosh, WI

  The sunset strikes me like a match. My heart is on fire. Dark abyss blankets the sky and rain crashes upon my helm. The blackened air is interrupted as the lights break through and the impending battle ensues. My hunger rivals that of a Viking, but a Nordic knight likely doesn't whisper...
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  Control

  

  By PaulMental, Oshkosh, WI

  My happiness spans as far as I can fit my finger inside my ear. I need to be careful. The most tactful strategist can determine that if I dig too deep, I'll appear to be a dope. It us up to me to deplete my finger with a guillotine and empty the protruding ooze into a vast gutter. ...
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  Have You Revised This?

  

  By PaulMental, Oshkosh, WI

  I am a bad poem. I rhyme, sometimes. It seems awkward, right? I struggle with a simple A A A A rhyme style. I contain no smoothness or elegance; I lack any idea of alliteration or consonance. The paper has many cross outs, and you can’t really read the ?????Some lines look l...