Best I Smell A Rat Poems

quivering despair
heart throbbing ~ hair on end
eek! a mouse!...

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Someone's trying to Cut me 

Out of the deal

Undercover with torchlight

Stealing my Cheese

I tell you Flat 

I smell a Rat

I’m Setting a trap

Hiring a Cat

Going...

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CORONALITY (1)

Polyneuropathy of a poisonous dark child,
Weapon of mass destruction,
Born to the family called Earth,
Name Corona, last name Virus,
Nickname Covid, aged nineteen (19),
Nationality China, who...

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“Can you smell something burning,” Dad frowned and I said “Yeah.”
It had the smell of cooking meat, as well as burning hair,
Dad stopped the truck,...

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(A true story.  In the year 1612, a young artist
named Artemisia Gentileschi, native of Rome,
was raped by one of her father's artist colleagues.
This is...

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There is a man,
with a crooked tongue,
he rambles on,
about things,
needing to be done.
I can do this,
I can do that,
now really sir,
I smell a rat.
Nothing is...

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Unquotable quotes - I

A friend in need is the goon who stokes your greed.
A journey of a thousand miles ends with the last broken step.
Don’t...

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First off, there's no place like that 256! 
We are a base of divergent cultures 
with a space enough for each to partake and taste...

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We Complain
By Franklin Price
7/16/2015

We complain about the President.
We complain about the Hill.
We complain about all government; 
I guess we always will.

There's a lot there to...

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My goal's to reach a hundred
my friend he said to me.
What, runs in cricket, drinking pints?
No years you dope, said he.

I want to live to...

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I must save you that stress 
Don't introduce yourself 
I know your friends 
Having met with your bosom friend 
I know your heart just like...

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Up til now I have avoided a scam with my name on it,
Despite it being tailored to suit me,
Even wearing a bow tie,
Appealing to my...

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oh how they don’t like it when one of their own
turns on them,
oh how they don’t like it when he gets a gun---
oh how easily...

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Muscat I smell a rat                    ...

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A Doll to the Clinic

Overlooking from the counter
Then I saw her,
With a bairn on the shoulder
Wearing a face that mowed a smile.

under duress she enters
In...

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