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More Mellifluent Poetic Manifestations of Pure Malarkey
VazamBam by Vassilis Zambaras [Click to play audio] “Worry Beads 1, Rat Race 2” With each click, there’s Supposed to be one less Clack to worry about— So why’s this string Of boxcars…
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Listen Up: A Poem a Day Keeps Vazambam’s Publisher at Bay
VazamBam By Vassilis Zambaras [Click to play audio] “To My Heart, Dead Set in Its Ways” Hear me out, however late Or hard it may be— Do not let my crime of not…
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Dedicated to the One I Love
VazamBam by VassilisZambaras [Click to play audio] “A Somewhat Prosaic Love Poem” My wife’s forever after me To tell her what I’m writing Day after day; when I look at her And tell…
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A Vazambam Exclusive: Incredibly Virtuoso Hellenic Rat Hurdles Another Language Barrier!
VazamBam by VassilisZambaras Click to watch video Meligalas Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—8/15/11—Believe it or not, this linguistically gifted, high-achiever of a mighty big mouse jumped from LOWER level to HIGHER—an ordeal usually requiring anywhere from…
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How I Learned to Close My Eyes Whenever Faced with a Blank
VazamBam by Vassilis Zambaras “Closed, You Klutzes” You say____ know A healthy____ Leads to a____ mind And ____-versa but I ask all____ you out There clamoring to___ in- Doors____ of the driving…
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The God Poems
VazamBam by VassilisZambaras “God on How to Get Rid of Warts and Other Disgusting Stigmata” Toady one, do not sit and prattle— Go wash your hands clean In this, my blessed hollow Oak…
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Four Deadly American Vignettes Brought to You Live from Hellas
VazamBam by Vassilis Zambaras “Bestiality in the Badlands, circa 1958” (Scripps) Round Rushmore Stark weather— In Tinseltown, another Heart crushed Bunny’s bleeding but Claude Hopper’s hitch— Cock’s not wholly Above Suspicion. “All-American…
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From Dawn Till Dusk
VazamBam by Vassilis Zambaras “Aubade” Aye to this Thin waning crescent In early morning sky, Gone by The morrow, which gleaming Sickle is to glean Which mourned-for eye? “Apparition” Now it’s clear that…
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The Slings of Outrageous Fortune
VazamBam by Vassilis Zambaras The Lawless Years: Urchins on their home turf, armed to the teeth and dressed to kill, First Street, Raymond, Washington, circa1949-50. From left to right, Billy (Squint-eyed Kid) Zambaras,…
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The Toad in the Word Garden
VazamBam by Vassilis Zambaras MELIGALAS Greece—(Weekly Hubris) —4/11/11—In lieu of my usual fare and because we’re still trying to recover from being burgled about two weeks ago (and still foolishly hoping to recover…