Michael Philips Poems

Just shut up already about herbal remedies, I told her.
This was on Valentines Day, hours before Sally fed
my dog some herbal medication
and he brewed butt coffee
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Sitting on the patio
At Jeff and Melanie’s
Just to be near Melanie
In hopes I would be well positioned
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Roll down your window and smile.
Hold it.
Now let me get one with the background of vintage automobiles,
tinted postcards, motels, and Route 66 trying to slake my
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I forgot the bug spray
So mosquitoes keep attacking me
Some guy brought a blender for Happy Hour
And some people even bring their TVs
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That gray morning I purchased a cheap electric
bass, the man with a friend on the Force
offering color enlargements of a
strangled young woman
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As he crosses into
the end zone
and the crowd
ejaculates in rapture,
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When people heard
that you sent me poetry
they commented that
you must be a wonderful and sensitive man
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I’m giving all my Colombo videos to the library,
I don’t know if they want them,
Perhaps curious folks with time
Will check them out and get hooked,
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When your rationale for going to war
turns out to be false,
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Saturated in morphine
breathing like a hurt animal
maybe somewhere deep down
at the bottom of the mineshaft
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