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CONNIE PAYNE'S POETRY

Walk-ins Welcome
over caffeine and nicotine
offensive fumes and sprays
the director sits in the
blue canvas chair
to evaluate
desiccate
perpetuate
consummate
emancipate
the queen perched
on the hydrolic pedestal.


Listening to old stories
boring tales
grandchildren's first hurts
divorced sons
slut daughters
fashions in vogue.

The wanna-be's 
affairs gone awry
abortions not mentioned
long hair
short hair
curly hair
and
bald heads.

Wax it on
Wax it off

Color it
cut it
perm it
pluck it
fluck it

...and how are you today?


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Photo Finish

When the f/stops
Imprints are sealed

     Unless she
            gets
            to them
                  first.


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X-Q's Me

Large broad plaids
of red and green
and yellow

Stripes are better

failed communication

around the cubed tables
loose tongues waggle
to ears
that do not listen.

the only sounds heard
are the vibrations of
one's own cords
echoing off the
cold white walls.


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Nature's Blossoms

Still water
reflects no lies
about what it sees
under the rich
dark murk
where the roots take hold
and sprout new blossoms
that take their own shape
as nataure demands it
no other way.