Best Chutes Poems

Mind all that your pa says
And don’t give him no reputes,
Sit quiet on the wood rail
Down by the corrals and chutes.

Don’t dally your digits
Or dive head long from a horse,
Listen to all your elders
And run your life to full course.

Appreciate grease wood
Ride your life free...

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Ivy-covered sheepskin, firmly in hand
    the confident graduate, square-jawed and tan

  Pulled offers from prestigious start-ups all over the land
    a year later he played lead guitar, hat in hand

  He, ever-grateful to his folks for those...

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Chutes and Ladders, Monopoly
   Candyland and Bingo
       One-two-three!

Risk and Careers and
   How about Charades?
Scrabble and Password
   Venerable Word Parades!

The youthful pursuits of
   An Innocent Age 
Eating Hostess Twinkies
   And...

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Life is a game of Chutes and Ladders
At every step you roll the dice
What you think really doesn't matter
Each day you'll either climb or slide

With every move you take your chances
You will either rise or plunge
Don't ask me, I have no answers
You'll never know until...

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