Best Jawbones Poems

I reckon to us city dudes an' ordinary blokes it seems somewhat strange,
But a cowpoke an' his horse become pards when ridin' the lonely range!
Pausin' fer a roll-yer-own under a ponderosa after a hot ride on the grange,
He might alight from the saddle, lean agin...

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Vladimir Putin itching
to loose nuclear bomb
end of the world scenario ofttimes
iterated throughout history
though an atheist (actually Unitarian),
no doubt this, that or another psalm
countless times the Bible
references Armageddon and doomsday
impossible mission to remain
cool, collected and calm.

Whether affiliated with donkey or elephant
Democrat or Republican viz
blue war red...

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I’ve taken up polishing skulls.
Not trophies, 
just my kin—
their sockets still 
echoing
what they aren't 
ready to hear.
Though it's only 
what they've said 
themselves.

I never knew 
what reckoning meant
however,
in terms of preparation,
that is, 
my training 
for the abrasing escalation 
of the manner 
in which they've behaved?
That's...

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