benba57 in Poetry on Medium

May 29, 2015

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Maglev Train Poem

Your location is obsolete.
There’s this song I’ll make you listen to twice.
There was a fight at the high school’s model UN,
the one without the accents and indigenous clothes,
no sub-incision with LSD in the wounds.

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benba57 in Poetry on Medium

May 26, 2015

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New Battery Poem

I’ve got this battery made of old cellphones
taped together with magnets in between,
and it has some kind of Tesla circuit loop
that I don’t understand, but I’ve got the patent,
so don’t worry about me getting jacked, OK?

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benba57 in Poetry on Medium

May 30, 2015

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Mannequin Poem #2

You’d make the best mannequin of all time,
standing until your legs were numb through.
Your boss would never hear you complain
since it was all obvious when you signed up:
people are responsible for easily predictable things.

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benba57 in Poetry on Medium

May 20, 2015

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Everyday Standards Poem

The crocodile sang “Happy Birthday”
every week for most of his life,
with no regard for the copyright.
His clothes were from the silent era
but didn’t affect his accordion,
which was even older (golden age of whaling).

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benba57 in Poetry on Medium

May 7, 2015

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Dripping Overpass Poem

A slobbering dog under a dripping overpass
never predicted the cancer would last.
School was canceled due to earthquake rumors.
We took a free cup of ice just to be unclassy.
All the nurses smoked instead of hacking tumors.
With the tiniest laptop ever assembled,
a man hopped out of a…

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Don Winiecki in Poetry on Medium

May 2, 2015

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Progress

Days that seem least troublesome are those after which it is possible to sense — however insignificant — some eeking out of progress. Because…

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benba57 in Poetry on Medium

May 31, 2015

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Hospital Poem

The last time I was this pissed
was before Bush did 9/11.
I woke up in a muddy tent, crisscrossed
with Natty Ice cans, just like heaven.

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benba57 in Poetry on Medium

May 19, 2015

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Inside Your Gums Poem

As I showed up for the money,
I didn’t promote myself.
Without the employee handbook,
I still did the math of hours per week.
I took suspension well, read advice just for me.
I was back in the swing, back and forth to a copy room.
There’s a goth girl into real-life alchemy.
Tarot cards…

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benba57 in Poetry on Medium

May 14, 2015

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Canasta Champions Poem

You can apologize just by people-watching
in a giant park featuring canasta champions
scuttling like a pair of Raggedy Ann dolls
in an antique need of washing.

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benba57 in Poetry on Medium

May 4, 2015

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Fire Sale Poem

The recycling truck begins to be a little late,
proof that the sun is inching forward again.
We don’t have hardly any wind here;
a stray, toppling cement truck is deadlier.
You could easily fall victim to the fire sale
at the bar, getting rid of god knows what late
into a night as “loud, quiet, loud”…

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