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While Daydreaming About Timepiece Inventors One O Clock
Who knows whence the measurement 
of time came about, though this chap 
proposes the following general happen
stance. Perhaps psalm body named Judas 
Priest arranged to...

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Categories: gimcrackery, adventure, december, first love,
Form: Ode



Ban Assault Weapons In 2017 - Part2
This epidemic re: murderous love affair perfervid
with gruesome morbid 
fixation allowing, enabling and providing terrifying 
   trappings, whence Pandora out the lid
anger loosed...

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Categories: gimcrackery, addiction, body, cry, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Useless Stuff
We are pelted daily on television by some brassy tout,
Hawking useless stuff we're told we can't survive without!
"Not available at your local store - the...

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Categories: gimcrackery, funny
Form: Rhyme
Why I Write With Confused Adumbrations
Hmm, perhaps titled,
     aye poem already didst aired
though revisiting said theme
     downplayed as thoughts blare

though similar con...

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Categories: gimcrackery, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea I Write With Confused Adumbrations
From blank screen to logorrhea, I write with confused adumbrations

Methinks hmm, perhaps
I admittedly self plagiarize and quite aware
aforementioned amalgamated, conglomerated, 
fabricated, jerry rigged, and organized...

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Categories: gimcrackery, absence, adventure, business, endurance,
Form: Rhyme



Zarathustra Gave Me the Green Light Part One
“Query”
from a word miner non-trumpeting
Beatle browed quarry man.

One emailing digital commoner bemoans assiduous, 
zealously yearning xing worthy values undergirding 
the storied renown quintessential peaceable operation...

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Categories: gimcrackery, bullying, environment, fear, grave,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Fictitious Alternative Up Bringing
Found me raised
     in the Antebellum South
     born an academically gifted
     whip smart,...

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Categories: gimcrackery, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Unsung Threnody For a Well Sewn Hero
Bare skull and cross bones
     existence on the peripheral
     outskirts of poker flats
lives a slip of a...

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Categories: gimcrackery, 12th grade, america, celebration,
Form: Ballad
Bartender Oh Bartender
Bartender Oh Bartender
(a stout rendition of O Captain! My Captain!
Perfect rhythmic rhyme with tonic 
when the doth ale).

Mine eyes espy the glory per the ending...

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Categories: gimcrackery, absence, addiction, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea I Write With Confused Adumbrations
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea, I Write With Confused Adumbrations

Methinks hmm, perhaps
aforementioned conglomerated eye gripping titled,
poem already aired
though revisiting said theme
downplayed as thoughts blare
though similar...

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Categories: gimcrackery, adventure, beautiful, celebration, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Raid Versus Woe
Raid versus woe

Black flag(s) show up
on social media platforms
when potential homicidal maniac(s)
communicate(s) intent to strike
with ambush and ready
read - able, eager, and willing
to embark upon...

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Categories: gimcrackery, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Across Figurative and Literal Blackened White Board
Across figurative and literal blackened white board...

Where death of democracy writ large,
nevertheless psychological strength predominates
unlike earlier chapters of mein kampf.

Mine hardscrabble existential debacle 
spelled losing...

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Categories: gimcrackery, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Across Figurative and Literal Board
Across figurative and literal board... 
mine hardscrabble existential debacle spelled losing game of trouble

Oft times, I experience wretchedness being alive
spurring wonderment whereby thoughts
of my demise...

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Categories: gimcrackery, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
While Daydreaming About Timepiece Inventors
While daydreaming about timepiece inventors...
as the figurative curtain closes on 2022

How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the passage of time,
and I would...

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Categories: gimcrackery, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Mirrors Don'T Lie About Frank and Ernest Portrayal
Mirrors don't lie about frank and ernest portrayal...

Especially when giving cheeky badass
blemished physiognomic reflection
tricking me seeing displeasing likeness
Matthew Scott Harris, a grown lad brandishing
his treasured...

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Categories: gimcrackery, analogy, atheist, extended metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs