Best Otis Poems

NO ONE KNEW OTIS
(New story about Otis)

There's a window over there 
And a man sits in an easy chair 

Warmth radiates from the comfortable scene 
But outside there's s snow storm quite mean

Ice hangs in patches from branches and fences 
Against such weather there are...

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Here's to Elisha Graves Otis that stupendous innovator,

   Who gave us all a lift in life by inventing the elevator.

      Due to Elisha's creative skill and general know-how,

         The ups...

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“Miss Otis Regrets she’s unable To Lunch Today”

He tried to dance a tango; but she preferred a waltz;
He served a new fandango; but she cures her meats in salts.

When the lady got her stockings; in some kind of bunch;
The fellow took them off for her;...

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Oh hail the common man!
He’s something of a novelty.
Never has he asked for much.
Some people call him Hillbilly.

Watch, remember, celebrate

His coveralls are washed in lye
Then pinned upon a line to dry.
From rural soil his children sprout.
They’re raised on beans and sauerkraut.

Warp, weft, seam and weave

All...

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Dear sweet Otis,
Days regrettably went by when I didn't see you,
You passed away too soon.
Playing fetch in heaven now,
But still with me somehow.

My sweet puppy,
The mornings are empty,
They feel more lonely,
Cause you don't wake up beside me.

A boy and his dog once chased the sunset.
We...

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Mary Morse demanded a horse
"Give me a horse I say!
I want a damned horse
You'll get it of course
Tomorrow is my birthday!"

Mary was scary and very specific
"The horse that you get me must be terrific
And only ten inches tall
So I can take her to school in...

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There are milestones I’ll never remember, and one of them may have been the first time the notes kissed my ears.
Or were they her lips?

She taught me which songs were worth it, and I know the words to almost all of them.
Learning anything when you...

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This article is about the underground lyricist and outlaw musician. For other uses, see Zoltan Goliath, Brent Scorn, Lydia Fox, C. Günter Marrow, Elzbieta Bienga (disambiguation).

Otis (Trench Mouth) Trench was born with pneumonia in a black-rain steel town in Third World, Pennsylvania. He was not...

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i worked on
a bay dock
hotter than
sin but in the
winter warmth
was remembrance

but i never
forgot what
confused
consumed
me that i
thought

that which
would be
me and
please
beam
me

up Scotty
only to hear
i've no control
Captain you are
going to be a molecular
jigsaw puzzle of one thousand

pieces
to be put
back together
again Humpty
Dumpty but was
this puzzle before or

after
the
fall...

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One of my favourite songs is Miss Otis Regrets
As songwriting goes it's as good as it gets
So many versions of this most wonderful song
Some singers do it right others do it wrong 

Van the Man did a version and that was okay
A jazz version by...

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