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Oh No Too Moppy Ahhhhhh

Pop 
hiss
hoot
meow 

pow
whose 
poop

knock knock knock
bang bang
locked
tick tock

whistle
whizz
wheeze
whimsy
wreck

shoot
smash
mish mash
toot

sissy
ring ring

mawl
freeze
hang
shoot

zeees

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No Blocking the Plate

It's a round ball with a wooden bat.
Take some time to swing with that.

Ninety feet will get you there, 
From the lefty box (it's square).

Toward right, straight down the path,
Did you step up to take a bubble bath?

If you're moving on, you're making sense, 
Leaving home towards that fence.

Now you're in the pitcher's crack, 
It ain't stealing when it's taking back.

Now see, three, 60, round?
The same dimensions of the mound.

It does no good rattling the gate,
If you want to play sport, just grab a plate.

Chasing the diamond is a fool's errand,
So treat it as a verb and not a gerund.

The masked-man waits, Union his name,
Since there's no crying aloud in this game -

If there's ball in hand, no run and no dice;
No ball, no Union, then no breaking the ice.

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A Song From the Stars

I lie and forget and I torture.
I feel hate and I absolutely will not surrender.
I am an offender.
Yet I feel love, and I will ask for her.  
Like a hand to a glove,
I will hold her and the ground beneath her,
and the stars up above.
Meet me there, be aware 
The wear and tear is
Irreversible,
Unconversable,
Intraversible.
Beware.
The answer hurts.
So does everything.
There is no way out and we must suffer.
There is no way to begin again.
What happened before cannot be undone.
Relax.
It's not easy.
You will get hit from every direction.
It's why you're alive that matters.
Do not take no for an answer.
Don't say you can't do this.
Come up with a lie.
Do not steal.
Bomb the living hell out of them.
Try to sleep.

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Well, Well, Well

What do we have here?
Two firm feet, with arms to bear.
Fifty horses to get up there.
A hundred times, ten thousand faces.
Say you're welcome, please.

The strong will seize, 
If the flow will keep.
Put forty-five, frown
On a page,
Like sheep.

Can I buy you, uh...
Have you been many places?
Do you liken us to trees?

Say hello and give a tear,
Spend time up there,
Then look down.

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The Poet Who Did Not Know It

A knife in the pen

Dispensing blood's inks

A shroud of mind

In each cell thinks

The sentence is endless

Each thought is perturbed

The notion of freedom

Becomes more disturbed

Fire the match to the torch to the castle

Instead use a cap, a gown, and a tassel

Such children's toys

Deserve to be broken

They are tools of destruction

Like words never spoken

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Hold On - Keep Coming

Through red curtains
I want strong walls
In the night
I hit hammer
In morning 
I screw
In the night I hear
I pivot for you

This is fine, it is nice.
In world I set my fortress
If time is cold and winter ice,
This place I make,
Make comfort.
Feel home.
Read paper.

Hell is hold
As old to oil
In breath I calm
In work I play
To fly by day
To speak night
With stone in hand
Not bold.

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I Cave

I SEE NO TIME
I NO WANT WORK
I WANT HELP
NEED LOVE
I WORK SEE
BE MAN
HEALTHY WEAK
FACE STRONG LIKE HEART
HEART FINE, NICE
NEED GOOD HEARTS
GIVE MAN WOMAN TIME

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Orgy Nazi Nation

Sent Back to 
Grow Cold and Fear Darkness
Running through Hills,
Island Hopping
and Writing about it.

Spoke funny,
Dressed in high Fashion
Dancing upon Horses -
Slaughtering men and
Growing kings.

We Painted fields 
as Grain Packing coal
using Women,
not slaves but
Damn Close.

Remember the Water?
Found land below.
Sending plans to dispatch,
those Bound with 
All Our Excuses.

Worship the Sun,
Sacrifice good soldiers,
Cut ties with Earth,
Find no answers
to do us all over again.

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Shortcoming

Face it
Race it
Erase it

Try no more
It faces me
It races
It doesn't stop

Only me
We wait
We see

It charges
You
Me
We all do
You saw

It developed
We were there
We knew it was developing

Before us
It must have
How could it not
As it began?

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Slim

Snarky, this one,
Never held a gun,

Yet slivers away
Each day, every way.

Lifting and clapping,
Smiles when napping.

Fortune has it,
Bite after bit.

Hitting the graze,
He kneels and prays.