Jim Leftwich, John Crouse, & John M. Bennett
The Virus Variations
April 2020
Jim Leftwich in Four Oaks, NC
John Crouse in Farmington, NM
John M. Bennett in Columbus, OH
cult u're wars
Jim Leftwich
Apr 12, 2020, 7:46 PM
to john, JOHN
1.
we're here to tell
the world about
reverse osmosis
2.
We're here to
Tell the world
About re verse
Is most us
3.
Were hear two
Teal the Whorl
Abut red verse
4.
Oz
Moss
Us
John Bennett
Apr 12, 2020, 8:11 PM
to me, john
sᴉsoɯso ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ
ʇnoqɐ plɹoʍ ǝɥʇ
llǝʇ oʇ ǝɹǝɥ ǝɹ,ǝʍ
John Crouse
Apr 12, 2020, 8:15 PM
to me, JOHN
4.
Ozymandius'
Wobbly Rock
3.
Shelly's
Lew Welch
2.
Breaking Bad
Still Beating
1.
Mostly Red Vines
Jim Leftwich
Apr 12, 2020, 8:36 PM
to John, JOHN
pefrect
John Crouse
Apr 12, 2020, 8:42 PM
to me, JOHN
Prufrock
Proofread
Jim Leftwich
Apr 12, 2020, 9:05 PM
to John, JOHN
Sheetrock
Re t read
John Crouse
Apr 12, 2020, 9:09 PM
to me, JOHN
Bedrock
Retread
Jim Leftwich
Apr 12, 2020, 9:15 PM
to John, JOHN
Prufrock rockin
In the
Free World
John Crouse
Apr 12, 2020, 10:37 PM
to me, JOHN
T.S. Flintstone
Barefoot first responder
Rocky tobogganing
Essential workers
Lip-serviced thank-yous
Through pursed lips
Cheap and easy
No bootstraps for
Pulling up
In the wasteland
A gay old time
It aint
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 12, 10:59 PM
to John, JOHN
TS Sweetgum
Barefoot dump station
Rocky grocery shopping
Essential headlights
Lip-serviced cough slurp
Through gusting windows
Cheap pollen
No boondocking videos
Pulling chickens
In the wasteland of the free
A grayghost town
Saint Saint
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 12, 11:15 PM
to me, JOHN
Sweet Alyssum
TSA guy wire
Raccoon Vavoom
Sneeze guard
Sensual skintights
Servile cough-up
Dew disgusting redoubt
Weeping Paul Lynde
Blow boondoggle videodrome
Choking feels
Waistband siree
Greyscale Bozo
Gesundheit
St. Aint Aint
Jim Leftwich
Mon, Apr 13, 12:33 AM
to John, JOHN
Sweet dreamhoney in a sock
Tennessee vàlet authoritarian
Vacuum cumulus
The changing of the snooze garde
Sins of Light
Several due drop innings
The few the disgusted the doubtful
John Crouse
Mon, Apr 13, 1:32 AM
to me, JOHN
Entreat calumny windsock
Rammed desire wallet authorship
Vacuum bag cloud camber
Discharge of the blighted retrograde
Shins of incandescence
Upheaval accrues whinnings
True busty bountiful
Jim Leftwich
Mon, Apr 13, 12:26 PM
to John, JOHN
The End of Eating
kale lump knee
lumpy knee
if your wallet desires
stock in the wind
stock in the windy wind
kale grammar author
kale grammar ship
vacuum cleaner disco
urse discourse & curse
shining upon the heap
true beauty is bountiful
John Bennett
Mon, Apr 13, 1:06 PM
to me, John
slaw falls from wallet
discourse mutters in vacuum
Jim Leftwich
Mon, Apr 13, 1:13 PM
to John, JOHN
cumulative matters curse
waterfalls slowly foaming
in their valleys
John Crouse
Mon, Apr 13, 2:00 PM
to me, JOHN
tatters in rectum
tumult's lowly catch-all gloaming
in hair volleys
Jim Leftwich
Mon, Apr 13, 2:26 PM
to John, JOHN
nattering rectitude
cult of the snowy nuthatch
goatmind
our inner loblolly
John Crouse
Mon, Apr 13, 3:00 PM
to me, JOHN
Mad Hatter ridicule
Republicanism showy snatch
Goldmine
Dour sinner probably
Jim Leftwich
Mon, Apr 13, 3:22 PM
to John, JOHN
mud dauber organ
pipe culinary riddim
reap public canasta
prism scratchy
howitzer gold
mind sour
Dinner of Probability
John Crouse
Mon, Apr 13, 5:11 PM
to me, JOHN
Blood blubber yoni
Tripe cull linear riddance
Weep diabolical pasta
Prison screech
However foretold
Grind our
Vinter of Proboscis
Jim Leftwich
Mon, Apr 13, 5:54 PM
to John, JOHN
Lewd lode Club of
Roam fully lineated
Ripe rip rope romp
Rid rad rod dansing
Steep diagonal Mesa
Prime sun off beech
Batch of Boats how
Many forepaws
Sourdough mind
In the Winter
Of our Prognosis
John Crouse
Apr 13, 2020, 6:10 PM
to me, JOHN
Dawdle erode ace hero
Foam fully, eaten ripe. Sisal
Rethread curtails mod
Squad asleep. Shoot Young
On the beach, table asleep. Patch
Of stoats cow nanny pawpaw,
Pupae rye seasonal, snot
The winner's content.
Jim Leftwich
Apr 13, 2020, 7:04 PM
to John, JOHN
Doodle strode strobeface eros
Roaming bullies beating pipes
Mistrial redheaded
Curtains nod
Squid as sleet
Moot tongue
Once the peach
Enabled jeep
Watch batch
Poach couch
Of oats coast canny caw caw
Pupfish eye reasonably, not
The spooner bent.
Stay at Home poem
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 1:12 PM
to john, JOHN
We have been here a month
I haven't seen you once
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 1:26 PM
to me, JOHN
essential mothlight
twice eyes-write
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 3:11 PM
to John, JOHN
Sleeping in the afternoon
No laughing at the moon
John Bennett
Thu, Apr 16, 3:19 PM
to me, John
chewing the sheet
open the hand real slow
--
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 3:39 PM
to me, JOHN
Wing he beat
Pen in hand
Peon swole
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 3:41 PM
to me, JOHN
Ping pong diurnal
Yes, crying cartoon
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 3:44 PM
to John, JOHN
Said the cavefish to the cave
I've been right here all day
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 4:00 PM
to me, JOHN
Said the cave to the cave fish
Yet you've been swimming away
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 4:10 PM
to John, JOHN
If there's a fish in the text
There's a text in the fish
If there's a fish in the sea
There's a text in the desert
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 4:46 PM
to me, JOHN
Waterline storylines lap
Oceanic derriere seaweed rapping
Nemo's underwater spoof
A fishy text in the deserted sea
Johnston County List Poem #1
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 1:16 PM
to john, JOHN
seve
specific gravity
edge-crush test
Tualapai
Neuse
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 1:25 PM
to me, JOHN
selvage
analytic depravity
eagle-shush nest
apple pie
chevrolet
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 2:10 PM
to John, JOHN
shelving
catalytic converter
Observatory Crest
pie-eye
Rolodex
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 2:22 PM
to me, JOHN
Shelf life board feet
Catydid nothing wrong
Incontrovertibly larks baked
Sky-high genuflects
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 2:33 PM
to John, JOHN
bag clip
chicory
pack-line
rhyolite
key fob
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 2:51 PM
to me, JOHN
Clipper ship
Licorice
Waterline
Bobwhite
Treetop
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 3:08 PM
to John, JOHN
broadleaf cattail
national petroleum radio
quartzite
blocker/mover
catbird
ku'ut
microbiome
Disney petroglyphs
lungfish
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 3:37 PM
to me, JOHN
Mod Squad
Linoleum daddy-o
Zit galleon sundial
Blockchain plover
Attaboy smiles feathers
Robocop disses
Oil paint homie
Fish strings
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 4:16 PM
to John, JOHN
Disinfectant
Glacier water
Dump station
Cell phone
Cat-leash
Disinformation
Melting / feedback loop
Jump cut
Telluride
Katmandu
At least
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 4:53 PM
to me, JOHN
Recalcitrant.
Runoff.
Novena
Connect.
Catbird.
Malfeasance.
Lemming.
Ted Nugent.
Book black
Leap slice.
Chloride.
Batman.
Yeast.
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 8:01 PM
to John, JOHN
pyrometamorphism
thunderstorms
dystopia
frost warning
autolyzed yeast
peppercorns
intubation
rockhounds
The Peace Trail
The Mikan Drill
slidingboard
cottonmouth
trashbag
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 8:25 PM
to me, JOHN
Fiery morph priapism
Blunderbuss
Myopic
Frosty the Snowman
Bread lines infection
John Barleycorn's
Knocked-up & salted
Hellhound rebound
Mike Pence on trial
Makepeace Thackeray
Minneapolis Lakers
Waterboard
Serpentine
Body bag
Wash your face
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 10:57 PM
to john, JOHN
Semiotic Virus
What is the name of the rock formation on the trail to
Barker Dam? Cat stretched out and sleeping on my lap.
Toilet paper vertical, paper towels horizontal. Pickup
trucks, freight trains, chickens in the yard. Hualapai
pinyon, ponderosa. Croatan Sound. Forest City Joe.
Eisenhower highway matrix. Because the air is irrespirable.
Wash your face after eating a prose poem.
John Bennett
Fri, Apr 17, 8:05 AM
to me, john
itching & working
itching & walking
itching & sleeping
John Crouse
Fri, Apr 17, 9:35 AM
to me, JOHN
Pellucidar
Edgar Rice's burro cairns leftoverture trails threading
nimbostratus skyward to reservoir sits & giggles in storylines.
Letterbox catgut lapwing yaws the cruciform paper productions,
X marking the mid-tempo earth's core punned afoul. People of
the tall pines croak timbered citadel coffee while Dwight
Howard and least heat moon Keanu Reeves' careless suffocate.
Cranium bidets pro's words to chew on.
John Bennett
Fri, Apr 17, 10:03 AM
to John, me
cranium & jiggling
burros & hojeando
paper & mooning
John Crouse
Fri, Apr 17, 10:28 AM
to me, JOHN
Juggling uranium
Leafing thru burritos
Rapier spooning
John Bennett
Fri, Apr 17, 11:56 AM
to John, me
numb & burbling
loaf & churning
name & fooling
Jim Leftwich
Fri, Apr 17, 12:37 PM
to John, JOHN
ink on the
staircase mud on
a boot blood on
a clockface stink
on the loot
John Crouse
Fri, Apr 17, 12:40 PM
to me, JOHN
Crumb bauble
Flotilla Chungking
Namaste unspooling
John Crouse
Fri, Apr 17, 12:46 PM
to me, JOHN
Blinking nutcase dud
Pecan trophy
Scoot doodle upon
Steeplechase group think
Yawn bra moot
Simple nipple
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 9:02 PM
to john, JOHN
Supple maple
Ample apple
Simple nipple
People ripple
Sample example
Duple couple
Grapple triple
Quadruple dapple
John Crouse
Sat, Apr 18, 9:55 PM
to me, JOHN
Pullet math
Temple staple
Pimple cripple
Peep hole tipple
Example sump
duplex creme
Table tripe
Quad rupee pineapple
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 10:25 PM
to John, JOHN
A Fable
Bullet moth trample
Stubble dimple crapper
Heap pole topple
Examined dump complex
Cream fable ripe
Wad sauteed pinochle
John Crouse
Sat, Apr 18, 11:00 PM
to me, JOHN
Trampoline goth ballet
Ingrown skyscraper
Porthole maypole
Crosswalk rump convex
Weem cable tripe
Daw detritus picadillo
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 11:38 PM
to John, JOHN
Going down the road feeling
Exit ramp poll tax mothlight
Bail mallet town hall fly
Swatter sweater weather
Pork sole day role cross
Roads thumping index
Seams fabletripping hype
Thaws rictus packing pills
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 8:29 AM
to me, JOHN
Standing in the shower thinking
Nexus gramps pollard flax goth blight
Grail wallet clown mall flypaper
Wetter tweeter feather
Dork whole relay soul crucifix
Goads humping ibex
Creams stable rippling hypo
Gnaws rickshaw shellacking thrills
Oat X
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 9:13 PM
to john, JOHN
Oat at
Oat boat
Oat coat
Oat dote
Oat eat
Oat float
Oat goat
Oat haute
Oat jolt
Oat koan
Oat loaf
Oat mote
Oat note
Oat oak
Oat poke
Oat quote
Oat rote
Oat soap
Oat tote
Oat ute
Oat vote
Oat wrote
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 9:30 AM
to me, JOHN
Oat wrote at oat oat
Boat at vote vote at
Coat vote at rote rote
Oat eat at loaf more
At haute jolt at koan
Loaf oaf oat at oak poke
At rote soap at ute
Tote oat mote at quote
Goat at float eat at
Dolt jolt oat at oaf oaf
John Bennett
Sun, Apr 19, 11:22 AM
to John, me
shot suit
sot suit
cot suit
got suit
plot suit
cock suit
knock suit
bot suit
lot suit
sock suitA Fable
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 1:40 PM
to john, JOHN
Disputanta
Galt's Mill
Cowpasture River
culpable capable
palpable permeable
preamble
Glamis
Oxbow
Intaglios
Vidal
ramble table bible
John Bennett
Sat, Apr 18, 1:52 PM
to me, john
pandemonio
andemoniop
ndemoniopa
demoniopan
emoniopand
moniopande
oniopandem
niopandemo
iopandemon
opandemoni
pandemonio
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 2:07 PM
to John, JOHN
Panic in Ammonia
Pan demon money
And demon money slop
Slope in demon utopia
Slips demon in open
Demon emotive and
Optical monocultural
Pandemic onions and
Panda democracy
John Bennett
Sat, Apr 18, 2:16 PM
to me, john
utópico
tópicou
ópicout
picoutó
icoutóp
coutópi
outópic
utópico
John Crouse
Sat, Apr 18, 2:41 PM
to me, JOHN
Lantana putty
Landfill milkshake
Wolverine pastor hamburger
Pulpy preamble inescapable
Ramble on Antetokounmpo
Van Tilburg Clark necktie
Swingset tagline gore
Led Zeppelin mesa
Biolotecha
John Crouse
Sat, Apr 18, 2:46 PM
to me, JOHN
Utopian
Tapioca
Apricot
Picante
Isotope
Octopus
Topiary
John Crouse
Sat, Apr 18, 2:52 PM
to me, JOHN
Handy in Aspic
Pun renown, honey
Planned semen runny
Jalopy mope hen steaming topper
Blips reaming coping
He man votive randy
Monocle plural cut
Polysemic bunions
Prada demagogue
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 3:24 PM
to John, JOHN
Blend Bleak Blemish
Bleached Bleeding
Bleep Blessings
Blurting Blenders
John Crouse
Sat, Apr 18, 3:30 PM
to me, JOHN
Lend Leak Lemming
Leached Leading
Leap Lessons
Lurking Lenders
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 8:37 PM
to John, JOHN
Blea
Bleb
Blec
Bled
Blee
Blef bleg bleh
Blei blej
Blek
Blel blem
Blen bleo blep
Bleq
bler bles blet
Bleu Blev Blew
Blex
Bley
blez
John Crouse
Sat, Apr 18, 9:48 PM
to me, JOHN
Plea
Elbow
Bleach
Sled
Bleacher
Beef beg lei
Bleat Bojangle
Plaque
Black blemish
Bling oreo kelp
Oblique
Blur blessed belittle
Blew bevy blow
Ibex
Sly
Beet
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 10:40 PM
to John, JOHN
The Kiln Sea Blik
Flee bowtie impeached bed
Leech reef leg levee I see leak tangled borax pluck slack
Lemmings eye linger over
The kiln sea blik / blik the
Blue sky-shift, their brittle &
furry lessons / below their
Leveraged snowjobs
An index of silver feet
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 9:38 AM
to me, JOHN
Nee towhee beseeched bedstead
Stretch fear gel evil eye ease keel dragnet
X-ray potato chip hippy kelp
Chumming belie finger lover
Taco kill semen picnic ante maim
Ilk the bilk the sea kiln milk
Red shift their spocked airtight
& Blurry lesions blow angel hair
Salvaged low ball low blows blouses
Angst alphabetized ibex at slivers gleet
John Bennett
Sun, Apr 19, 11:23 AM
to John, me
palenque seat
blank meat
sank feet
plank beet
shank bleedI think
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 1:29 PM
to john, JOHN
I think we're alone now said
the wind to
the sparrows and the crickets
in the oak leaves and the
honeysuckle
beside a creek maybe 50 miles
southeast
of the research triangle
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 2:14 PM
to me, JOHN
Grating to think of abalone cowbell,
Said the bovine to the breeze:
Harrow and rickets cloak sheaves.
Hornswoggle elides big baby,
Nifty smiles on the upbeat::
Hawking the soul-search angle.
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 2:32 PM
to John, JOHN
avocados
snee.zing
wickets
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 2:41 PM
to me, JOHN
armadillo plague journals
pittance ear to ear
corn singing to
crickets
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 2:52 PM
to John, JOHN
Plague it again
Same Sam
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 2:59 PM
to me, JOHN
Thank you, Ma'am
Buy Jiminy hegemony
Yosemite Disney
Bam Bam
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 3:07 PM
to John, JOHN
brandspankingnew
bright, shiny wrapping
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 3:17 PM
to me, JOHN
Lazes Bloated
Mercador trading post
Candy bar swat sweet tooth
Shrink-wrapped saw horse
Rand McNally radicand
Time warp sultanate
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 3:28 PM
to John, JOHN
Mercury in faded ghosts
Handstand bartering sweat
Lodge / rapid transit law
Of the curse / sandpaper
Nails & rash, and radish &
Dashboard flashing cash.
Mome-burp sulking fate.
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 3:36 PM
to me, JOHN
Silver Surfer blue jeans
Bandstand bartenders water
Transect maw vapidity dodge
Reverse Sandpiper off the
Rails & such, Kaddish &
Dachshund clashing flask.
Mom twerking hulking hate.
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 4:01 PM
to John, JOHN
Shivering purple blue beans
Ballgame barfing
tender gates
Insects thawing rapidly
froze
In verse as in the newspaper
Basket of Disposables
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 8:53 PM
to john, JOHN
The tree grows down
from the clouds and
buries its beard in
the dirt. Hairs fall out
and vanish, into the
desert night. In early
spring sidewinders
are seen, slithering
down Wall Street
towards the sea.
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 9:13 PM
to me, JOHN
Brooklyn throes eider
forum the dirt clods band
harries its sheared tin
revert. Compares fallout
and varnish, Hindu spa
inserted spit. Girly
ping in sidereal blinders
obscene, withering
drown Ball Wheat
rewards Tweedledee.
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 10:05 PM
to John, JOHN
Now we're cooking with
Eiderdown firehouse quorum!
The dirtclouds hand Barry
His hearing aid skin flint
Culvert. Comb parity tall
Lout and vanish into their
Hidden spat. In uncertain
Spots. Sports teach con
Com petition like capitalist
Dogs eating their own
Children. Whirling gig
Economy. Ping pong,
With a side of blindness.
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 11:04 PM
to me, JOHN
Know they're looking at
Goose and Dalmatian quarrel
Nimbus Dirty Harry
This query said "kinfolk"
Lord Calvert coxcomb disco ball
Pout and punish pinto flair
Bidden spatula entertain
Topsail stirrups peach scion
Comb edition spike naturalist
Hogs cheating renown
Cauldron twirling swig
Monotony pine pony
Blindsided to wit
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 11:19 PM
to John, JOHN
At squirrel Harry said,
Ball four, discover
Eastern Spain. I am
On it like a pike.
It's my own wig.
If only it fit.
John Crouse
Mon, Apr 20, 12:41 AM
to me, JOHN
Adze, Dirtcloud Barry said,
Jim Boulton, recover my
Granny Shot freet throw
Hand spun Warren Spahn
Catfish Hunter flipping
His swig, a colonic wit
John Bennett
Mon, Apr 20, 1:06 PM
to John, me
cloud fish
swing feet
dust mic
speech fear
Jim Leftwich
Mon, Apr 20, 8:31 PM
to John, JOHN
clear splash
wing muck
deep fuss
John Bennett
Tue, Apr 21, 8:58 AM
to me, John
,sneer ,hash
,cling ,suck
,creep ,dust
Jim Leftwich
Tue, Apr 21, 11:23 AM
to John, JOHN
No sneer, no hash,
Cling & clang,
No suck, no creep,
Dusting dusty dust
John Bennett
Tue, Apr 21, 11:55 AM
to me, John
clear sky
drips hose
duck rash
crush
I've been writing this in my head for 3 days
Jim Leftwich
Tue, Apr 21, 1:12 PM
to john, JOHN
Breathe
It yeah
It yeah
It yeah
It yeah
It yeah
It yeah
It yeah
It yeah
yeah It
John Bennett
Tue, Apr 21, 2:51 PM
to me, john
I've been living this version for weeks now...
Wheeze
ah sit
ah sit
ah sit
ah sit
ah sit
ah sit
ah sit
ah sit
sit ah
John Crouse lives in the American Southwest.
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April 2020
Jim Leftwich in Four Oaks, NC
John Crouse in Farmington, NM
John M. Bennett in Columbus, OH
cult u're wars
Jim Leftwich
Apr 12, 2020, 7:46 PM
to john, JOHN
1.
we're here to tell
the world about
reverse osmosis
2.
We're here to
Tell the world
About re verse
Is most us
3.
Were hear two
Teal the Whorl
Abut red verse
4.
Oz
Moss
Us
John Bennett
Apr 12, 2020, 8:11 PM
to me, john
sᴉsoɯso ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ
ʇnoqɐ plɹoʍ ǝɥʇ
llǝʇ oʇ ǝɹǝɥ ǝɹ,ǝʍ
John Crouse
Apr 12, 2020, 8:15 PM
to me, JOHN
4.
Ozymandius'
Wobbly Rock
3.
Shelly's
Lew Welch
2.
Breaking Bad
Still Beating
1.
Mostly Red Vines
Jim Leftwich
Apr 12, 2020, 8:36 PM
to John, JOHN
pefrect
John Crouse
Apr 12, 2020, 8:42 PM
to me, JOHN
Prufrock
Proofread
Jim Leftwich
Apr 12, 2020, 9:05 PM
to John, JOHN
Sheetrock
Re t read
John Crouse
Apr 12, 2020, 9:09 PM
to me, JOHN
Bedrock
Retread
Jim Leftwich
Apr 12, 2020, 9:15 PM
to John, JOHN
Prufrock rockin
In the
Free World
John Crouse
Apr 12, 2020, 10:37 PM
to me, JOHN
T.S. Flintstone
Barefoot first responder
Rocky tobogganing
Essential workers
Lip-serviced thank-yous
Through pursed lips
Cheap and easy
No bootstraps for
Pulling up
In the wasteland
A gay old time
It aint
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 12, 10:59 PM
to John, JOHN
TS Sweetgum
Barefoot dump station
Rocky grocery shopping
Essential headlights
Lip-serviced cough slurp
Through gusting windows
Cheap pollen
No boondocking videos
Pulling chickens
In the wasteland of the free
A grayghost town
Saint Saint
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 12, 11:15 PM
to me, JOHN
Sweet Alyssum
TSA guy wire
Raccoon Vavoom
Sneeze guard
Sensual skintights
Servile cough-up
Dew disgusting redoubt
Weeping Paul Lynde
Blow boondoggle videodrome
Choking feels
Waistband siree
Greyscale Bozo
Gesundheit
St. Aint Aint
Jim Leftwich
Mon, Apr 13, 12:33 AM
to John, JOHN
Sweet dreamhoney in a sock
Tennessee vàlet authoritarian
Vacuum cumulus
The changing of the snooze garde
Sins of Light
Several due drop innings
The few the disgusted the doubtful
John Crouse
Mon, Apr 13, 1:32 AM
to me, JOHN
Entreat calumny windsock
Rammed desire wallet authorship
Vacuum bag cloud camber
Discharge of the blighted retrograde
Shins of incandescence
Upheaval accrues whinnings
True busty bountiful
Jim Leftwich
Mon, Apr 13, 12:26 PM
to John, JOHN
The End of Eating
kale lump knee
lumpy knee
if your wallet desires
stock in the wind
stock in the windy wind
kale grammar author
kale grammar ship
vacuum cleaner disco
urse discourse & curse
shining upon the heap
true beauty is bountiful
John Bennett
Mon, Apr 13, 1:06 PM
to me, John
slaw falls from wallet
discourse mutters in vacuum
Jim Leftwich
Mon, Apr 13, 1:13 PM
to John, JOHN
cumulative matters curse
waterfalls slowly foaming
in their valleys
John Crouse
Mon, Apr 13, 2:00 PM
to me, JOHN
tatters in rectum
tumult's lowly catch-all gloaming
in hair volleys
Jim Leftwich
Mon, Apr 13, 2:26 PM
to John, JOHN
nattering rectitude
cult of the snowy nuthatch
goatmind
our inner loblolly
John Crouse
Mon, Apr 13, 3:00 PM
to me, JOHN
Mad Hatter ridicule
Republicanism showy snatch
Goldmine
Dour sinner probably
Jim Leftwich
Mon, Apr 13, 3:22 PM
to John, JOHN
mud dauber organ
pipe culinary riddim
reap public canasta
prism scratchy
howitzer gold
mind sour
Dinner of Probability
John Crouse
Mon, Apr 13, 5:11 PM
to me, JOHN
Blood blubber yoni
Tripe cull linear riddance
Weep diabolical pasta
Prison screech
However foretold
Grind our
Vinter of Proboscis
Jim Leftwich
Mon, Apr 13, 5:54 PM
to John, JOHN
Lewd lode Club of
Roam fully lineated
Ripe rip rope romp
Rid rad rod dansing
Steep diagonal Mesa
Prime sun off beech
Batch of Boats how
Many forepaws
Sourdough mind
In the Winter
Of our Prognosis
John Crouse
Apr 13, 2020, 6:10 PM
to me, JOHN
Dawdle erode ace hero
Foam fully, eaten ripe. Sisal
Rethread curtails mod
Squad asleep. Shoot Young
On the beach, table asleep. Patch
Of stoats cow nanny pawpaw,
Pupae rye seasonal, snot
The winner's content.
Jim Leftwich
Apr 13, 2020, 7:04 PM
to John, JOHN
Doodle strode strobeface eros
Roaming bullies beating pipes
Mistrial redheaded
Curtains nod
Squid as sleet
Moot tongue
Once the peach
Enabled jeep
Watch batch
Poach couch
Of oats coast canny caw caw
Pupfish eye reasonably, not
The spooner bent.
Stay at Home poem
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 1:12 PM
to john, JOHN
We have been here a month
I haven't seen you once
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 1:26 PM
to me, JOHN
essential mothlight
twice eyes-write
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 3:11 PM
to John, JOHN
Sleeping in the afternoon
No laughing at the moon
John Bennett
Thu, Apr 16, 3:19 PM
to me, John
chewing the sheet
open the hand real slow
--
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 3:39 PM
to me, JOHN
Wing he beat
Pen in hand
Peon swole
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 3:41 PM
to me, JOHN
Ping pong diurnal
Yes, crying cartoon
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 3:44 PM
to John, JOHN
Said the cavefish to the cave
I've been right here all day
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 4:00 PM
to me, JOHN
Said the cave to the cave fish
Yet you've been swimming away
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 4:10 PM
to John, JOHN
If there's a fish in the text
There's a text in the fish
If there's a fish in the sea
There's a text in the desert
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 4:46 PM
to me, JOHN
Waterline storylines lap
Oceanic derriere seaweed rapping
Nemo's underwater spoof
A fishy text in the deserted sea
Johnston County List Poem #1
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 1:16 PM
to john, JOHN
seve
specific gravity
edge-crush test
Tualapai
Neuse
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 1:25 PM
to me, JOHN
selvage
analytic depravity
eagle-shush nest
apple pie
chevrolet
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 2:10 PM
to John, JOHN
shelving
catalytic converter
Observatory Crest
pie-eye
Rolodex
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 2:22 PM
to me, JOHN
Shelf life board feet
Catydid nothing wrong
Incontrovertibly larks baked
Sky-high genuflects
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 2:33 PM
to John, JOHN
bag clip
chicory
pack-line
rhyolite
key fob
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 2:51 PM
to me, JOHN
Clipper ship
Licorice
Waterline
Bobwhite
Treetop
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 3:08 PM
to John, JOHN
broadleaf cattail
national petroleum radio
quartzite
blocker/mover
catbird
ku'ut
microbiome
Disney petroglyphs
lungfish
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 3:37 PM
to me, JOHN
Mod Squad
Linoleum daddy-o
Zit galleon sundial
Blockchain plover
Attaboy smiles feathers
Robocop disses
Oil paint homie
Fish strings
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 4:16 PM
to John, JOHN
Disinfectant
Glacier water
Dump station
Cell phone
Cat-leash
Disinformation
Melting / feedback loop
Jump cut
Telluride
Katmandu
At least
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 4:53 PM
to me, JOHN
Recalcitrant.
Runoff.
Novena
Connect.
Catbird.
Malfeasance.
Lemming.
Ted Nugent.
Book black
Leap slice.
Chloride.
Batman.
Yeast.
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 8:01 PM
to John, JOHN
pyrometamorphism
thunderstorms
dystopia
frost warning
autolyzed yeast
peppercorns
intubation
rockhounds
The Peace Trail
The Mikan Drill
slidingboard
cottonmouth
trashbag
John Crouse
Thu, Apr 16, 8:25 PM
to me, JOHN
Fiery morph priapism
Blunderbuss
Myopic
Frosty the Snowman
Bread lines infection
John Barleycorn's
Knocked-up & salted
Hellhound rebound
Mike Pence on trial
Makepeace Thackeray
Minneapolis Lakers
Waterboard
Serpentine
Body bag
Wash your face
Jim Leftwich
Thu, Apr 16, 10:57 PM
to john, JOHN
Semiotic Virus
What is the name of the rock formation on the trail to
Barker Dam? Cat stretched out and sleeping on my lap.
Toilet paper vertical, paper towels horizontal. Pickup
trucks, freight trains, chickens in the yard. Hualapai
pinyon, ponderosa. Croatan Sound. Forest City Joe.
Eisenhower highway matrix. Because the air is irrespirable.
Wash your face after eating a prose poem.
John Bennett
Fri, Apr 17, 8:05 AM
to me, john
itching & working
itching & walking
itching & sleeping
John Crouse
Fri, Apr 17, 9:35 AM
to me, JOHN
Pellucidar
Edgar Rice's burro cairns leftoverture trails threading
nimbostratus skyward to reservoir sits & giggles in storylines.
Letterbox catgut lapwing yaws the cruciform paper productions,
X marking the mid-tempo earth's core punned afoul. People of
the tall pines croak timbered citadel coffee while Dwight
Howard and least heat moon Keanu Reeves' careless suffocate.
Cranium bidets pro's words to chew on.
John Bennett
Fri, Apr 17, 10:03 AM
to John, me
cranium & jiggling
burros & hojeando
paper & mooning
John Crouse
Fri, Apr 17, 10:28 AM
to me, JOHN
Juggling uranium
Leafing thru burritos
Rapier spooning
John Bennett
Fri, Apr 17, 11:56 AM
to John, me
numb & burbling
loaf & churning
name & fooling
Jim Leftwich
Fri, Apr 17, 12:37 PM
to John, JOHN
ink on the
staircase mud on
a boot blood on
a clockface stink
on the loot
John Crouse
Fri, Apr 17, 12:40 PM
to me, JOHN
Crumb bauble
Flotilla Chungking
Namaste unspooling
John Crouse
Fri, Apr 17, 12:46 PM
to me, JOHN
Blinking nutcase dud
Pecan trophy
Scoot doodle upon
Steeplechase group think
Yawn bra moot
Simple nipple
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 9:02 PM
to john, JOHN
Supple maple
Ample apple
Simple nipple
People ripple
Sample example
Duple couple
Grapple triple
Quadruple dapple
John Crouse
Sat, Apr 18, 9:55 PM
to me, JOHN
Pullet math
Temple staple
Pimple cripple
Peep hole tipple
Example sump
duplex creme
Table tripe
Quad rupee pineapple
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 10:25 PM
to John, JOHN
A Fable
Bullet moth trample
Stubble dimple crapper
Heap pole topple
Examined dump complex
Cream fable ripe
Wad sauteed pinochle
John Crouse
Sat, Apr 18, 11:00 PM
to me, JOHN
Trampoline goth ballet
Ingrown skyscraper
Porthole maypole
Crosswalk rump convex
Weem cable tripe
Daw detritus picadillo
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 11:38 PM
to John, JOHN
Going down the road feeling
Exit ramp poll tax mothlight
Bail mallet town hall fly
Swatter sweater weather
Pork sole day role cross
Roads thumping index
Seams fabletripping hype
Thaws rictus packing pills
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 8:29 AM
to me, JOHN
Standing in the shower thinking
Nexus gramps pollard flax goth blight
Grail wallet clown mall flypaper
Wetter tweeter feather
Dork whole relay soul crucifix
Goads humping ibex
Creams stable rippling hypo
Gnaws rickshaw shellacking thrills
Oat X
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 9:13 PM
to john, JOHN
Oat at
Oat boat
Oat coat
Oat dote
Oat eat
Oat float
Oat goat
Oat haute
Oat jolt
Oat koan
Oat loaf
Oat mote
Oat note
Oat oak
Oat poke
Oat quote
Oat rote
Oat soap
Oat tote
Oat ute
Oat vote
Oat wrote
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 9:30 AM
to me, JOHN
Oat wrote at oat oat
Boat at vote vote at
Coat vote at rote rote
Oat eat at loaf more
At haute jolt at koan
Loaf oaf oat at oak poke
At rote soap at ute
Tote oat mote at quote
Goat at float eat at
Dolt jolt oat at oaf oaf
John Bennett
Sun, Apr 19, 11:22 AM
to John, me
shot suit
sot suit
cot suit
got suit
plot suit
cock suit
knock suit
bot suit
lot suit
sock suitA Fable
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 1:40 PM
to john, JOHN
Disputanta
Galt's Mill
Cowpasture River
culpable capable
palpable permeable
preamble
Glamis
Oxbow
Intaglios
Vidal
ramble table bible
John Bennett
Sat, Apr 18, 1:52 PM
to me, john
pandemonio
andemoniop
ndemoniopa
demoniopan
emoniopand
moniopande
oniopandem
niopandemo
iopandemon
opandemoni
pandemonio
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 2:07 PM
to John, JOHN
Panic in Ammonia
Pan demon money
And demon money slop
Slope in demon utopia
Slips demon in open
Demon emotive and
Optical monocultural
Pandemic onions and
Panda democracy
John Bennett
Sat, Apr 18, 2:16 PM
to me, john
utópico
tópicou
ópicout
picoutó
icoutóp
coutópi
outópic
utópico
John Crouse
Sat, Apr 18, 2:41 PM
to me, JOHN
Lantana putty
Landfill milkshake
Wolverine pastor hamburger
Pulpy preamble inescapable
Ramble on Antetokounmpo
Van Tilburg Clark necktie
Swingset tagline gore
Led Zeppelin mesa
Biolotecha
John Crouse
Sat, Apr 18, 2:46 PM
to me, JOHN
Utopian
Tapioca
Apricot
Picante
Isotope
Octopus
Topiary
John Crouse
Sat, Apr 18, 2:52 PM
to me, JOHN
Handy in Aspic
Pun renown, honey
Planned semen runny
Jalopy mope hen steaming topper
Blips reaming coping
He man votive randy
Monocle plural cut
Polysemic bunions
Prada demagogue
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 3:24 PM
to John, JOHN
Blend Bleak Blemish
Bleached Bleeding
Bleep Blessings
Blurting Blenders
John Crouse
Sat, Apr 18, 3:30 PM
to me, JOHN
Lend Leak Lemming
Leached Leading
Leap Lessons
Lurking Lenders
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 8:37 PM
to John, JOHN
Blea
Bleb
Blec
Bled
Blee
Blef bleg bleh
Blei blej
Blek
Blel blem
Blen bleo blep
Bleq
bler bles blet
Bleu Blev Blew
Blex
Bley
blez
John Crouse
Sat, Apr 18, 9:48 PM
to me, JOHN
Plea
Elbow
Bleach
Sled
Bleacher
Beef beg lei
Bleat Bojangle
Plaque
Black blemish
Bling oreo kelp
Oblique
Blur blessed belittle
Blew bevy blow
Ibex
Sly
Beet
Jim Leftwich
Sat, Apr 18, 10:40 PM
to John, JOHN
The Kiln Sea Blik
Flee bowtie impeached bed
Leech reef leg levee I see leak tangled borax pluck slack
Lemmings eye linger over
The kiln sea blik / blik the
Blue sky-shift, their brittle &
furry lessons / below their
Leveraged snowjobs
An index of silver feet
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 9:38 AM
to me, JOHN
Nee towhee beseeched bedstead
Stretch fear gel evil eye ease keel dragnet
X-ray potato chip hippy kelp
Chumming belie finger lover
Taco kill semen picnic ante maim
Ilk the bilk the sea kiln milk
Red shift their spocked airtight
& Blurry lesions blow angel hair
Salvaged low ball low blows blouses
Angst alphabetized ibex at slivers gleet
John Bennett
Sun, Apr 19, 11:23 AM
to John, me
palenque seat
blank meat
sank feet
plank beet
shank bleedI think
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 1:29 PM
to john, JOHN
I think we're alone now said
the wind to
the sparrows and the crickets
in the oak leaves and the
honeysuckle
beside a creek maybe 50 miles
southeast
of the research triangle
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 2:14 PM
to me, JOHN
Grating to think of abalone cowbell,
Said the bovine to the breeze:
Harrow and rickets cloak sheaves.
Hornswoggle elides big baby,
Nifty smiles on the upbeat::
Hawking the soul-search angle.
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 2:32 PM
to John, JOHN
avocados
snee.zing
wickets
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 2:41 PM
to me, JOHN
armadillo plague journals
pittance ear to ear
corn singing to
crickets
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 2:52 PM
to John, JOHN
Plague it again
Same Sam
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 2:59 PM
to me, JOHN
Thank you, Ma'am
Buy Jiminy hegemony
Yosemite Disney
Bam Bam
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 3:07 PM
to John, JOHN
brandspankingnew
bright, shiny wrapping
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 3:17 PM
to me, JOHN
Lazes Bloated
Mercador trading post
Candy bar swat sweet tooth
Shrink-wrapped saw horse
Rand McNally radicand
Time warp sultanate
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 3:28 PM
to John, JOHN
Mercury in faded ghosts
Handstand bartering sweat
Lodge / rapid transit law
Of the curse / sandpaper
Nails & rash, and radish &
Dashboard flashing cash.
Mome-burp sulking fate.
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 3:36 PM
to me, JOHN
Silver Surfer blue jeans
Bandstand bartenders water
Transect maw vapidity dodge
Reverse Sandpiper off the
Rails & such, Kaddish &
Dachshund clashing flask.
Mom twerking hulking hate.
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 4:01 PM
to John, JOHN
Shivering purple blue beans
Ballgame barfing
tender gates
Insects thawing rapidly
froze
In verse as in the newspaper
Basket of Disposables
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 8:53 PM
to john, JOHN
The tree grows down
from the clouds and
buries its beard in
the dirt. Hairs fall out
and vanish, into the
desert night. In early
spring sidewinders
are seen, slithering
down Wall Street
towards the sea.
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 9:13 PM
to me, JOHN
Brooklyn throes eider
forum the dirt clods band
harries its sheared tin
revert. Compares fallout
and varnish, Hindu spa
inserted spit. Girly
ping in sidereal blinders
obscene, withering
drown Ball Wheat
rewards Tweedledee.
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 10:05 PM
to John, JOHN
Now we're cooking with
Eiderdown firehouse quorum!
The dirtclouds hand Barry
His hearing aid skin flint
Culvert. Comb parity tall
Lout and vanish into their
Hidden spat. In uncertain
Spots. Sports teach con
Com petition like capitalist
Dogs eating their own
Children. Whirling gig
Economy. Ping pong,
With a side of blindness.
John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 11:04 PM
to me, JOHN
Know they're looking at
Goose and Dalmatian quarrel
Nimbus Dirty Harry
This query said "kinfolk"
Lord Calvert coxcomb disco ball
Pout and punish pinto flair
Bidden spatula entertain
Topsail stirrups peach scion
Comb edition spike naturalist
Hogs cheating renown
Cauldron twirling swig
Monotony pine pony
Blindsided to wit
Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 11:19 PM
to John, JOHN
At squirrel Harry said,
Ball four, discover
Eastern Spain. I am
On it like a pike.
It's my own wig.
If only it fit.
John Crouse
Mon, Apr 20, 12:41 AM
to me, JOHN
Adze, Dirtcloud Barry said,
Jim Boulton, recover my
Granny Shot freet throw
Hand spun Warren Spahn
Catfish Hunter flipping
His swig, a colonic wit
John Bennett
Mon, Apr 20, 1:06 PM
to John, me
cloud fish
swing feet
dust mic
speech fear
Jim Leftwich
Mon, Apr 20, 8:31 PM
to John, JOHN
clear splash
wing muck
deep fuss
John Bennett
Tue, Apr 21, 8:58 AM
to me, John
,sneer ,hash
,cling ,suck
,creep ,dust
Jim Leftwich
Tue, Apr 21, 11:23 AM
to John, JOHN
No sneer, no hash,
Cling & clang,
No suck, no creep,
Dusting dusty dust
John Bennett
Tue, Apr 21, 11:55 AM
to me, John
clear sky
drips hose
duck rash
crush
I've been writing this in my head for 3 days
Jim Leftwich
Tue, Apr 21, 1:12 PM
to john, JOHN
Breathe
It yeah
It yeah
It yeah
It yeah
It yeah
It yeah
It yeah
It yeah
yeah It
John Bennett
Tue, Apr 21, 2:51 PM
to me, john
I've been living this version for weeks now...
Wheeze
ah sit
ah sit
ah sit
ah sit
ah sit
ah sit
ah sit
ah sit
sit ah
John Crouse lives in the American Southwest.
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