Best Fedoras Poems

..."May I?" she asked motioning to my dog-eared notepad as a child might
asking for a cookie expecting to be told it would spoil her dinner
I took another swallow, my hand instinctively moved to the b......

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...As biology goes, I'm surviving,
a few aches and pains and a cough
and I check every morning when in the bathroom
to see if my bits have dropped off.

Now, father time knows where I'm living
and......

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...I could care less about the four 
corners of insults, 
That intelligence invites; 
It is always the first straw of 
grass that’s grows, 
which reveals the popular outcast; 
As a youth, I found my ima......

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...Moonlight tango

It was a Saturday night, in Buenos Aires, 10:30pm, to be exact. It was a hot summers night, and you could see, and feel, the steam rising from the cobblestone street, here in La Bo......

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...Pretty soon, night will fall upon the city,
And lives of crime animate spasmodically
As Gene Pitney croons “A Town Without Pity”
And the clubs and the gin joints open methodically.

Hepcat jazzm......

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...Note: If you haven’t please check out part 1 and 2 
before reading this. It will make more sense that way Thanks.

"May I?" she asked motioning to my dog-eared notepad as a child might
ask......

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...Travelling on the road for business gets old fast.  The inside of one hotel room starts to look the same as another in any town you name.  When you travel by yourself it becomes even more mundane.  C......

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...the aura, godspeed ahead.
her countenance more than slaked,
it’s heated and apple baked.

fifty-somethings march with time…
sue ellen’s court supporting their queen,
with fanfare tea parties an......

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...Those born into a family large will know whereof I speak.
Your chances of donning the newest clothes was very, very bleak!
Alas, hand-me-downs became a tradition at our humble house.
Being at the ......

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......inspired by 'Life During Wartime'
   by Talking Heads


The bank sign blinks its message late at night,
two types of information for the indolent,
the traffic light is cycling though there's......

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...The bank sign blinks its message late at night,
two types of information for the indolent,
the traffic light is cycling though there's not a car in sight,
alarm clocks disinter the drugged and som......

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...He Once Wrote

How quickly the vanishing
Where once shone the sun
Now only skyscraper shade

Horse drawn wagons
Once parked below tenement smiles
As rope baskets lowered with coins
Sent back with app......

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...The bank sign blinks its message late at night, 
two types of information for the indolent, 
the traffic light is cycling, though there's not a car in sight, 
alarm clocks disinter the drugged and......

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...Like many, I masqueraded in shades of urban gray.
I offered my love to the midnight neon angel.
I walked the caliginous streets alone and astray.
She remained distant, alluring, always disdainful.......

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...The bank sign blinks its message all the time,
two types of information for the indolent,
the traffic light is cycling though there's not a car in sight,
alarm clocks disinter the drugged and somn......

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