Payack’s Micro Poems

Occasional micro musings by #CambMA’s first Poet Populist, @PeterPayackPoet / NEW BOOK:

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY

I bought my first car at 17.

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THE AMERICAN WAY

Dash for cash

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DÉJÀ BOO

Remembrance of Halloweens Past.

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ANTI-DARWINISM

Survival
of the Nitwittiest.

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EXCESSIVE EXPRESSIVE

I was going to write a one line poem
But now I’ve gone too far.

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TRUE LUST

My hormones
are in love
with your hormones.

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I covered my head
with my blanket
and rode the wave back to sleep.

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SURFING AT NIGHT

I had a dream
in which I’m floating
in the ocean,
on a bed of blue-green algae.

There was algae as far as I could see,
and I heard a voice say,

“The difference
between living and dying,
being and non-being
is just where you catch the wave.”

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FIGHTING THE ODDS

We soar
at 555 mph
five miles
about the Atlantic
which is two miles deep
and 38° cold.

I keep my seat belt fastened.

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PROTAZOAN PRIDE

I like
the thought
that I am an animal
with 1.7 billion years
of evolution behind me.

It gives me
a past I can be proud of.

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TIMELESS GRAFFITI

Lichens on rocks
Splattered like paint
There for 3 billion years

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THE NECTAR OF THE GODS?

The water we drink
is the same that Dionysus,
Buddha and Jesus drank.

And the same
That the dinosaurs did, too.

Ditto for the air we breathe.

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SCARY SCARY NIGHT

There are more bacteria on Earth
then stars in the universe

Just not as romantic!

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SPACED (INSIDE) OUT

Are there Extraterrestrials out there?

Be more concerned with the strange being
that lives inside your head.

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THE EVOLUTIONARY RACE

I run the beach
six miles in two hours,
pathetically slow,
but not bad for a sixty-five year old guy
with two knee replacements.

Then I pass a horseshoe crab
that has gone almost nowhere
in roughly half a billion years.

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ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE

If the Tyrannosaurus Rex
could change into a chicken,

As contemporary
evolutionary theory holds

Then
anything is possible,
I guess.

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ALIEN INVASION

These words
are now
inside your head.

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A (VERY) CONCISE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE

Sisssssssssss. BOOM! Entropic Doom.

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DO NOT DESPAIR

If you ever
feel directionless,
remember that every hour
brings us 43,000 miles
closer to Globular Cluster M13
in the constellation Hercules.

Talk about goal orientation!

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THE AVERAGE PERSON

Every second,
the average person
has 100 million
sensations bombarding
their body like so many
telephone messages,
with their head acting
as a switch board to sort
out the data.

When you read this poem
do you sort of get
a busy signal?