Sex Thoughts
Season the entire day
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Laundry
Tells you what you’d done
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Brick Layers
Not working on a glass house
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Arctic
I like to follow the cold
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The Dove
All summer I thought her call an owl with insomnia
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Distant Thunder
Wonder what’s next
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Florida Winter
Snow in movies, storefronts, weather jokes, retiree arthritis
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Walking
Like driving, mainly for the thoughts I have
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Moose
Aggressively unlike childhood cartoon memories
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Swimming
More than relaxing, I think of drowning
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Broken Heart
Like being run over by a motorcycle in the desert, you think you are the only one
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Recipe Book
Minimal refrigerator groceries, hate instructions
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Sad Story
The last piece of toilet paper in the world
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Cemeteries
As much about travel as anything
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Elvis
As of us, at some point, dead longer than alive
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Summer Bed
The sheets can stay cool on a summer bed
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Dog on a Leash
The leash is visible
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The River
The river is always on top of itself
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Road Signs
Nothing to do with the travel
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Sleeping Beauty
Maybe she prefers her dream world best
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Waking Up
Lasts until bedtime, sometimes an entire life
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Bathroom Action Poem
Fill in blank
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Strange Bedfellows
Never quote limericks during prayer
Mike James makes his home outside Nashville, Tennessee and has published widely. His many poetry collections include: Journeyman’s Suitcase (Luchador), Jumping Drawbridges in Technicolor (Blue Horse), and Crows in the Jukebox (Bottom Dog.) He currently serves as an associate editor of Unbroken.