Elvis the Country Singing Owl
...Elvis the owl was singing in the rain
His refrains were ridiculous.
Gloriously with a snap insane!
His boots would twirl as he sang of old
Cowboys meeting up with an alien
Who had a space hear...
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Categories:
barkeeps, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Kelso At Anchor
...Kelso has a boat
smeared to the gunnels,
with cawk and greasy weeds.
Kelso is old enough
to be free of care,
his dog don't care neither.
At the prow of dawn
he hauls dripping lobsters
in ...
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Categories:
barkeeps, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Spouse Took Hiatus Washing Clothes and Dishes
...(alternately titled: tongue in cheek humor
cuz the following hyperbole
from this pencil necked baby boomer
without intent to badmouth,
nor start unfounded rumor,
who chalks, i.e. attributes gobb...
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Categories:
barkeeps, 12th grade, adventure, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Kelso At Anchor
...Kelso has a boat
smeared to the gunnels,
with cawk and greasy weeds.
At a prow of dawn
he hauls dripping lobster,
and their pots
up the scummy steps
of the silty stone harbor,
pushing a bar...
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Categories:
barkeeps, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
The Dreadful Mourn
...I'm a Piketown son who left his mum
To sail the eastern shores
Spent a year in Gloucester
'mong the barkeeps and the whores
Then a man came 'round to Gloucester town
Said boys I need a few...
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Categories:
barkeeps, history, sea, song,
Form: Rhyme
Hot Water Music
...There once lived a man
who smiled a grand smile
and danced a tune so sweet,
he loved the most beautiful of women
and wrote the most real of poetry.
He left the world listening to the hot wat...
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Categories:
barkeeps, lonely, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Sabbath Day In Alder's Gulch, Montana!
...Glitterin' gold wuz struck along Alder's Gulch in eighteen sixty-three!
Potential prospectors came frum as fer away as Knoxville, Tenn-o-see!
Hordes uv soiled doves and gamblers migrated to the Gul...
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Categories:
barkeeps, cowboy-western, funny
Form: Rhyme