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Publican Offenders


Copper robbers ... penny-ante coin collectors
Duly appointed by Caesar Cersei,
deputized purse snatchers
Modern day publicans holding the money bag,
appointed bean counters
being levy 
abacus austere
Placing palm heavy fines on the people
of the Iron throne realm,
keeping them usury chained to the crown

Pence pawns of mother Jezebel the whore...

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Categories: offenders, history, money, perspective, word
Form: Alliteration
Repeat Offenders
I'm a criminal.
And I got 6-to-life for a crime that 
I will recommit.
But we are all repeat offenders
Consciously committing consistent crime.

It's a universal sitcom.
Humanity sitting at the world's largest dinner table
passing the right or wrong thing, to the wrong or right person
at the right (or...

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Categories: offenders, extended metaphor, humanity, humor,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things