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Charles Joseph Albert
Feb 11, 20191 min read
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This silly little poem is going to be released shortly in my collection, "Confession to the Cockroaches and Other Poems" Inbox We think...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Jan 5, 20191 min read
Confession to the Cockroaches
As featured in Day 610 of Central Coast Poetry Shows: https://www.facebook.com/CentralCoastPoetryShows/ This will also be the eponymous...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Nov 22, 20181 min read
Red and White Meat Blues
(Spoken Intro) Now if you an' I git our heads to meat I'm sure we can flesh all this out... (Riff into blues) Don't give me no...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Nov 3, 20181 min read
Nanotech Poetry?
What else is there to write about that isn’t written yet? What can I self-ignite about without precursor’s debt? Whatever thought there...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Oct 14, 20181 min read
A Sci-Fi story hiding all 8 siblings
Here's why the red alert is on: we're flushing down this black hole like a john. But space-time singularities gone bad are facts of life,...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Sep 9, 20181 min read
How Could My Mother?
How could my mother ever vote for Trump? She once campaigned for Senator McGovern! There’s no excuse for championing this chump. She used...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Aug 11, 20181 min read
Please, Mister Flight Attendant, Sir!
Please, Mister Flight Attendant, Sir, don’t bring him no more peanuts! He’s on his fourteenth bag right now since we flew past Salinas....
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Charles Joseph Albert
Jul 15, 20181 min read
Le Dîner du Foie et du Riz
Comme une espèce de fauve au zoo Delphine me montrait à ses amis car je mangeais trois fois plus qu'elles. En principe cela m'arrangeait;...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Jun 14, 20181 min read
The Sackbut of the Joke
When your’re handing out horns, in a band, (as any instructor has known) the kids who’d not otherwise planned are the ones whom you give...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Apr 1, 20181 min read
The Runcible Spoon
In the fires of the desert sun, scorching at noon, as I stumbled through sand dunes and cactus, I was cool, hands and feet, took no note...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Mar 26, 20181 min read
Ode to Haimorodes
On the side of a Grecian urn, in azure clear, One perceives a donkey, braying in the grass. You, O Goddess, have stabbed him with your...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Mar 24, 20181 min read
Mount Madonna County Park
This poem originally appeared in The Literary Nest. The unfortunate name evokes a pornographic ploy, but, after all, it’s crammed with...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Feb 18, 20181 min read
Undisclosed Anecdotes
8 exercises in negative prefixes. This is from decades ago, when I had more time on my hands for this sort of silliness. 1. This...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Jan 28, 20182 min read
The Devil and Saint Jude
Saint Jude, he was at wit's end, for he could find no sin deplorable enough that Trump could not own in spades, and still win. It started...
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Charles Drawin'
Jan 7, 20181 min read
On the Origins of the Species
6/98 I studied for years every clue that's been found of the earliest humanoid race, and I had to conclude they bumbled around without...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Dec 19, 20171 min read
ELEMENTS OF A TRAGEDY
(Thulium mendelevium indium palladium: Lawrencium, Molybdenum.) (Two men in the Palladium: Larry, Mo.) LAWRENCIUM: Francium? Germanium?...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Nov 16, 20171 min read
IF YOU GIVE A 53 YEAR-OLD ECSTASY
If you give a 53 year-old ecstasy she will think about her daughter and start to regret the friction. She will want a pen and paper to...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Nov 13, 20171 min read
WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS
Nathaniel begged us for a pup over each morning's coffee cup. "I'll walk and feed her!" "I'll clean up her poop," Sam said. So we said...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Nov 8, 20171 min read
O PRAY DO NOT VOTE FOR PHILOSOPHER JONES
If you open the door to Philosopher Jones on a night when you're having a feast, He will drink all your wine, gnaw your meat to the...
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Charles Joseph Albert
Oct 15, 20173 min read
LA CASA DE DETRITUS
You must come with me now to the house of my youth; there are things you should see that I long have suppressed. I desire no longer to...
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