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March 22, 2025
12 skulls talk at an important meeting
By Gary Lindorff
If the leader dips then so does the next and the next / Looks fine from a hundred feet / All is well / M&M stands for Mars and Murrie
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First skull: Making friends on the way to Jupiter
Making friends with the ocean
If the leader dips then so does the next and the next
Looks fine from a hundred feet
All is well
M&M stands for Mars and Murrie
Private boy plucking on string resonates
Spread the words
Second skull: Do not feed the bad
Hello what is your name?
Follow the leader
Third skull: All the way down the line like a wave
That no one notices
Hello there
Fourth skull: The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent 100 ways to cook an egg
The slice is our most useful type
Do you have a bandaid?
(My toe is bleeding)
The longest wedding veil was longer than 63 football fields
Those poking around are the first tier of color saturists
Fifth skull: I know what you mean
Product code: R050
Is it good to see you?
Sixth skull: Declare a formats slice with three message formats
The first to generate a random number for selecting an item
Will request a greeting
Seventh skull: But some cats are allergic to people
Eighth skull: Some ducks are allergic to horses
Sit tight.
Comes with a matching A7 envelope
I am coming for you
Ninth skull: That reminds me of a tear-jerker
Bring your umbrella
Tenth skull: The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland
What the sun is doing or that child
Eleventh skull: The voices of Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married
Call out by 7s and then subtract yourselves by 4
Report on every third Monday
Which will serve him well later in life
Twelfth skull: Shall I cut you in?
Though how I cannot say
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Here is another poem about skulls:
Skulls
This is the first of no more
Poems about many skulls.
This poem is about just one of the many skulls.
Skull 100: "Where is everybody?"
Only skull 100 can talk.
If skulls could talk
They would be asking too many questions.
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Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and a memoir, "Finding Myself in Time: Facing the Music". Lindorff calls himself an activist poet, channeling his activism through poetic voice. He also writes with other voices in other poetic styles: ecstatic, experimental and performance and a new genre, sand-blasted poems where he randomly picks sentence fragments from books drawn from his library, lists them, divides them into stanzas and looks for patterns. Sand-blasted poems are meant to be performed aloud with musical accompaniment.
He is a practicing dream worker(with a strong, Jungian background) and a shamanic practitioner. His shamanic work is continually deepening his partnership with the land. This work can assume many forms, solo and communal, among them: prayer, vision questing, ritual sweating, and sharing stories by the fire. He is a born-pacifist and attempts to walk the path of non-violence believing that no war is necessary or inevitable.