Best Hard Cash Poems

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Each of us is born the main persona
in the narrative of his or her own life.
Through ever-changing atmosphere, 
supporting characters and diversity of settings, 
we help to mold the rising acti......

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...after doors close    after hours    when scarlet neon flickers out    red-light nights fill voids of need    my body is a ripped flower    my throat tingles to the burn of vodka-fire    gleaning the ......

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...Patrick O’Flanagan’s covert shenanigans
Make people ask where he gets to at night
There’s a perception that Patrick O’Flanagan
Visits a door with a glowing red light

What people don’t know abou......

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...Her full name was Labyrinthia Pennyweight Babineaux, but her closest friends called her Libby. She was of blended French, German, and Native American heritage. Her Great Great Grandparents were said ......

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...For a long time, we had black hell.
 
Now, we both exhale in green paradise.
 
Now, we live quiet as mice.
 
Green everywhere, isn't it nice?
 
Not much fighting, like before.
 
Lots of loving and mu......

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...If I were famous, I would hide
Behind gates of that gilded cage
Displayed, my privacy denied
Burned by hot spotlights of the stage

Not for me is the glittered path
My face splashed across TV s......

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...How cowardly could it be to
Prefer to hurt everyone except yourself?

Walking out the door when it gets too hot
And everything is perfect
Dark and blue lighting streaming into the blank faces gl......

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...Those days of faithful sidekicks have all but passed us by,
We’d rather watch car crashes or someone blown sky-high.
Playing the second fiddle was Gabby’s first jackpot:
For Tom Tyler, Hoppy, Roy ......

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...This is the latest news about some enterprising individuals...
Making their reputations with a big bang while others slumber..

Presumably amateurs for they dabbled with fire crackers...
Theirs w......

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...Cash Gifts Only

By Elton Camp

The wedding invitation was unusually frank
“Only gifts that can be deposited in the bank”

They’re not interested in some crummy toaster
Or even that new high-speed tu......

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...woman, oh woman
even after your
constant, daily
treatment of abuse
I demonstrated
I could have been
your karate kid.

In your defense
did I not impulsively
stand tall between
two warring g......

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...The first time I met Mei Is Woe, I felt so badly, I begged our co-workers to give up a sick day in the sick day fund, not realizing they had done that so many times, it would not be an easy collectio......

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...We had a few puffs 
and had a few scuffs
drank wine and some beer
listened to the old songs 
sittin' in the new Fongs
on across the road from the TC Square

I had an old truck all patched up w......

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...A man walks by in a gray polyester suit 
He tells another man to call him Juice 
The other man in bright orange hunter's clothes, he looks bold and brash 
He tells Juice to call him Cold Hard Cash......

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...See, forty bucks in cold, hard cash
can fill your trailer with gin trash.
And for growing fine tomatoes,
forty's pretty small potatoes.
The big box products like Black Cow
will truly set you bac......

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