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Dangling Calabash

Two calabashes of milk loaded ready for pleasure dangling as ripe paw paws swollen as tortured frog are within immediate reach I ask for a pint to remove thirst but she tells me in the face “You have hard brown teeth your stomach is for bones this milk is for the toothless and those with tube stomach go ask my father and mother get permission from God as from me, no access calabash is for the elect.”

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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Date: 3/28/2017 6:09:00 AM
We are the top three recently written poems. There is a Calabash, North Carolina. Another Jimmy Durante familiar national catchphrase: "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are." Jim Horn
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Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
Date: 3/29/2017 4:57:00 AM
Serious energize from the bottom of your wisdom. Thanks Horn.
Date: 3/27/2017 9:51:00 PM
Nice, Solomon. Ah yes - that thirst.
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Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
Date: 3/29/2017 4:59:00 AM
Grateful, Doug
Date: 3/27/2017 4:35:00 PM
A carefully selected lines has given this poem a great flavour. Well-penned, My friend.
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Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
Date: 3/29/2017 5:02:00 AM
Very thankful my friend, Gideon

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