Best Carny Poems

Circus cat Cecil
Fantastically flew free
Soaring sailing sourpuss 
Projecting piercing paws...

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Its wet and drear in London dear, the pomp in on full trope
Though hope is gone, not dead for Jesus is the only hope!
Its foolish...

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Riding off into the Ivory Palace sunset,
in a pitch-black limousine, no less

Hear the heavy metallic chariot roar,
leaving exacerbated fumes echo deplored

Aural palette, enamel pestilent pain...

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I yelled and flung the empty whiskey bottle through the air
The marching high school band is getting closer

Children running, playing with the pygmy bear
The carny...

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Nowhere Man

Star dust, the stuff of a fool’s dreams.
Oh !!!, to travel upon star dust streams
- that glorious, never ending journey -
into the realms, the...

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i'd become immortal again binding 
a hardened stone catering to the sensual 
needs to gather soiled stained hanker chief 
a sudden removal of all earthly...

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we Waited-
the summer    for the carnival to arrive-
all the rides
and all the side shows

the screams   far   and wide

and...

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we are but poets 
the woman yelled
into the vacant crowd
poet I say
left emotionally
scarred bearing 
one's soul 
over time between 
a sudden blow of carny 
mirth...

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you'd beckoned my thoughts again 
through sudden whispers 
i've declined to respond morbidly
catering to the quaint findings 

of life after death a quiet calm
arose over...

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“Truth isn’t truth,”
that’s what some Cap’n Obvious toady recently said

He was pissy mad, when his angry tears wet the bed

Lieutenant Rudy Brown-Nose 
a has-been sniffing...

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murder sang in me where the sultriness 
of hot cotton fields consumed by 
old carny folk gestures given any doubt 
to a freedom that ole...

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Man, it’s been four long dog years!
Forlorn doggone tears
of toil 
and trouble

It’s a flee collar fact,
this feels like forty years
of Sirius jaw smack:

Loss leader of...

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One man, one vote
Listen to the double zero 
poll echo

One man, one vote
is power transition farcical
A national joke

One man, one vote
is very unpopular electoral
Lever pull...

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The music was so loud I could hardly hear myself think
as the carny's followed the crowd as if they we're the missing link
the carny's and...

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Peel back the onion tear squeals
coming from a televised live politico lynch rally
See the sound byte rubber duckie
teflon touting 
his favorite effigy combustible hits

Penguin strutting...

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