Kensington Avenue, Philadelphia
...Where is this? Are we on Mars?
America – just count the stores,
capitalist carnivores.
That so-familiar movie score,
the swish of passing cars.
The city built on Brotherly Love
(Wells Fargo, ...
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Categories:
abercrombie, places,
Form: Rhyme
I Don't Know Who I Am
...
Mordechai Fofoofnik
Murgatroyd Abercrombie
These are the names
my mother called me
Now that mom’s gone
I don’t know who I am
Though judging by my phone ...
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Categories:
abercrombie, confusion, humor, identity, mother
Form: Rhyme
The Poe
...
after The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
(Is this microphone turned on? Testing one two, Poe was a dip, Poe was a dip, testing.)
Once upon a daydream, faintly
whilst I watched the boob ...
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Categories:
abercrombie, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Emagi Abercrombie Love Emblems
...Lascelles Abercrombie'EMBLEMS of LOVE '
x x x X X *** X
x x X X x X...
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Categories:
abercrombie, kiss, love,
Form: Shape
Cemetery Adversary
...Here lies Abercrombie Wellington Jones
Under the flowers are all of his bones
Young people like to deface his gravestone
Due to all the slaves Jones used to own...
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Categories:
abercrombie, death, slavery, symbolism,
Form: Epitaph
Abercrombie the Zombie
...When Mr. Abercrombie
Became a human zombie
He stumbled for the right to get ahead
But when he humbled Cathy
He fumbled psychopathy
And now Miss Abernathy, is dead
Submitted to the "Bite-Size ...
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Categories:
abercrombie, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Rescued From Capitalism
...Mordechai Abercrombie Fofoofnik
Decided to become a kibbutznik --
But old socialists were out
Mordechai began to pout --
'Til they told him: 'Design a new Sputnik'...
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Categories:
abercrombie, depression, giggle, recovery from,
Form: Limerick
The Boy At Ticonderoga, Part Iii
......Duncan pulled free and sprinted, half-mad,
tears streaming as he made his retreat,
he’d never imagined hell this bad,
and didn’t much care if they were beat.
All he desired was to get clear,
...
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Categories:
abercrombie, america, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: Epic
The Boy At Ticonderoga, Part I
...Duncan was a young British soldier,
new recruit at fifteen years of age,
a good lad who followed his orders,
he was a fifer who liked to play,
his tunes directed men in the field,
the Blackwatch...
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Categories:
abercrombie, america, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: Epic
Things To Love
...Neatly lined crayons
Perfect, pointed tips
Abercrombie jeans
Stretched across my hips
Victoria’s Secret
Whispered in my ear
Lyrics, I won’t forget
Truths I want to hear
Puppy breath and ...
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Categories:
abercrombie, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
A Trip Intersteller Spacecraft
...Fiery I canst me be a man of the 50 feet spacecraft, he ask is he or rampant bugger me skipper
Ask not oh mister jakin, weep not sir Abercrombie here where does it go
I go the star, is like cement...
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Categories:
abercrombie, addiction, adventure, america, angel,
Form: Burlesque
Gym Fraud
...All the gym's a stage
And all the pale boys merely players;
Unconvincing ones, too.
At the theatre entrance
I part with pride
For a curious form of Vaudeville.
The maxims of inertia invert...
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Categories:
abercrombie, america, basketball, school, social,
Form: Free verse
Way Back When I Was Ten Years Old
...Way Back When I Was Ten Years Old
Sponsor: Kelly Deschler
I'm laying here remembering way back when I was ten years old,
my mumma taught me to cook, even though the food was always co...
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Categories:
abercrombie, child, growing up, mother
Form: Couplet
She Won'T Know
...What's all this fuss about
Haven't I furnished all your dreams
Wildest and the untouched ones
You Cantankerous bullheaded moron .
Your beastly charm woos me so much
So that I completely asph...
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Categories:
abercrombie, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Australia Down Under
...Down under continent
Down low is Australia
Australia the big island
Australia sixth largest continent
Country whose desert known as outback
Country who has the largest reef
Reef called the ...
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Categories:
abercrombie, nature, weather,
Form: Blitz
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