Best Melvin Poems

I walk these halls
As gallows mock
With framed pastels blind

Where mother left behind
And father said "freak"
You're no son of mine

Alone among the Rockwells
Lined-up of someone else's 
Many celebrated lives

I guess that's because
Mister Norman Bates
Really never learned how to paint

And if he had I'd be there 
Hung...

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he sits in back of the class
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Melvin and JJ – you silly cats,
You always know how to make me laugh.
You run through the house like tornadoes with tails,
And tear up my furniture with your razor-sharp nails.

Melvin is the oldest, and like a big brother,
He takes care of JJ, like any good...

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Walt and Melvin,
Were two little boys
Who were both bored
With their ordinary toys
Walt looked up to the table,
And said to Mel
"Do you think we will be able,
To make a new toy with that?"
"What's that?" said Mel,
Putting on his dunces' hat.
Mum's watermelon she bought us to eat
An...

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When it came to your acting career, you were no slacker.
You starred as Sam the butcher and as Sergeant Hacker.
You guest starred on the Andy Griffith Show at least ten times.
On that show you mostly played characters who turned to crime.
It was extremely sad when...

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Shelly and Melvin had been high school sweethearts
She fell in love with a bad boy from the next town.
Melvin was crushed, and astounded that she was pregnant.
Their love had been innocent for well over two years.

After Melvin’s wife died, Shelly called him up and invited...

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Here lies what's left of Melvin Slater,
who tried to ride an alligator.

written 11th April for Jesse's epitaph contest...

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Melvin James Brooks
wasn’t one to cook the books
with movie making he was bold
and gave us comedies that broke the mold
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I MET MELVIN MAYS WITH MY UNCLE MACK THIS LED TO THE FBI GIVING ME A PHOTO OF MELVIN MAYS 1986 AMERICAS MOST WANTED CIRO GARGANO WAS NO WHERE AROUND SERVING PRISON TIME IN TERREHAUTE INDIANA MOURNING THE LOSS OF HIS FATHER THE FBI TOLD...

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Melvin was enthralled with three sisters so fine
I will keep careful watch oas if they are mine.
The sisters were Marigold, Mercy and May.
They were readily watched by Melvin O’Shay.

He is a wise owl. I completely trust him.
Said the girls’ mother Mrs. McKim.
Entrusting her daughters to...

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