"The Donkey" by G K Chesterton (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=s0oVfVtgcHM&si=P6axYCZpvt0agBB2
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Whiskey Ice Cream Social

pour dark liquid over
my butter pecan,
the yellowwhite

spirals off into
my drink
more swish
than a clink.

The young girls dance
and never touch
old men or old whiskey.

Bourbon is best
served to the dying
even if they don’t
know they are.
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https://www.amazon.com/Written-Darkness-Anthony-Watkins/dp/0578734214

https://www.amazon.com/Written-Darkness-Anthony-Watkins/dp/0578734214

Sunday Morning (me and Jesus)

you were waiting
on the bus,
it was Sunday morning
and I was waiting
on Jesus come.

I was dreaming
of cornbread,
you were dreaming
of New York City.

Sunday morning
and you were waiting
on the bus

Boy selling newspapers
Jesus selling cornbread
On the street corner
at least so the headline said

It was Sunday morning,
you eating cornbread,
we’re on the bus,
me and Jesus

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I am Not

a clever poet
if I say I am sitting
on the hearthstones
writing this poem
then I am.

Only I’m not,
I am, as almost always,
in my comfy
high, overstuffed, wingback,
feet up on worn
beloved foot rest.

An ottoman,
only that seems
somehow pretentious
and I prefer
to pretend
I am not.

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https://www.amazon.com/Written-Darkness-Anthony-Watkins/dp/0578734214

If I Went

Sailing down

the highway

I would need

a pirates chest

of medicines

And soon a

forwarding address

for my pharmacist

Though I could roll

my old Kia,

windows down

rosary blowing

in the breeze

Because this atheist

believes in coincidences

and I believe

I could make

it to New Mexico

before it

or I fall apart

I could sail.

https://www.amazon.com/Written-Darkness-Anthony-Watkins/dp/0578734214

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The Hump

I am old
and ugly
and fat.

At thirty
I noticed
a hump.

Golf ball sized.
my doc wanted
to remove it

I asked if
it might kill me?
“no, but its unsightly.”

Uninsured, I saved up
twelve hundred dollars
and made an appointment.

By then, it had grown
to a baseball.
“inpatient” more money.

Now, I have insurance
it’s a grapefruit
but I am old and ugly
and fat.

https://www.amazon.com/Written-Darkness-Anthony-Watkins/dp/0578734214
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https://www.amazon.com/Written-Darkness-Anthony-Watkins/dp/0578734214

The Dog in the Yard

and dirt in the grass
or otherwise
and worms and snakes
nobody sees.

All in church
on Sunday morning
with termites
in the basement,
rats in the attic
rats in the pews
but that’s where
sinners belong.

Beans rattle on
the stovetop
ham deteriorates
in oven
its not
Thanksgiving.

And it all caves
in on us.
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