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Premium Member German Potato Salad
The grandfather on my mother's side was a cheapskate. 
A real cheapskate.
One Christmas, he gave me a used paperback book.
Something like “Jimmy Plays Baseball.”
It was...

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Categories: paperback book, grandfather, memory,
Form: Free verse



Pabst Blue Ribbon
Got pabst blue ribbon
for american rhythm 
and now presenting 
some sophistication;
ladies and gentleman 
stay clear i'm pissing
straight jameson; 
on these rocks here
still sipping on my...

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Categories: paperback book, happiness
Form: Rhyme
Rap Jesus
i sling rhymes
like i fling stones;
miraculous style
bound to rock your dome.
i got metaphors
like a fortune teller;
for sense like a psychic
when i predict futures. 
my two...

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Categories: paperback book, urbaneaster,
Form: Rhyme
Country Road
Now god dang darn nabbit if I'm a gonna have it,
any other way then the way I done describe it.
Countryside road hellbent on winding;
barely getting...

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Categories: paperback book, urban
Form: Lyric
The Necessities
I'm too able bodied to be this poor,
too intelligent to ignore, 
the establishment 
f$cking us over anymore. 
Why's the working class
the poorer class?
And who does...

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Categories: paperback book, political
Form: Rhyme



Purgatory Prayer
Getting high like cocaine 
as i fly higher then your rogaine;
wishing i was snowboarding 
not falling outta college.
When i die, lord may i touch the...

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Categories: paperback book, visionaryallah,
Form: Lyric
Spring Feeling (An Ode To Michigan)
I love farmland in spring 
and new beginnings 
and winning in extra innings. 
I love a fat lady singing;
barbecues, chilling, grilling; 
no curfews, imported brews;
a...

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Categories: paperback book, sea, seasonslove,
Form: Lyric
Plain and Simple
take sanctuary in my city; 
and live peacefully with me. 
we're just people, plain and simple; 
and that's good enough for we.
we're just people, plain...

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Categories: paperback book, political
Form: Lyric
This Week In War Baseball (War Is Supposed To Be Crossed Out; Wheres Strke Thru Text?)
Congress is bitching again, trying to make it look like they’re doing something.
But they don’t give a damn; career politicians know it’s a scam.
But do...

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Categories: paperback book, socialcare, war, care, war,
Form: Lyric
The Breaks
my skateboard aint got no brakes.
aint that the breaks? neh im just great.
i got faith that angels negotiate 
the paths these vehicles take. 
insuring i...

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Categories: paperback book, faith
Form: Carpe Diem
Jagged Jaws of Smelted Steel Not the Title:
This poet decided against  
becoming a measly minced meaty morsel

undetected inauspicious augury 
     assigning  adept 
   ...

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Categories: paperback book, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Dreams of An American Poet
1. list of goals, wishes and questions

2. if then poems

3. multiple perspectives 

4. definitions 

5. word associating 

6. jokes and riddles 

7. american dream

8. multiple...

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Categories: paperback book,
Form: I do not know?
!!!!!!! Book Release !!!!!!!
My very first poetry book was released this morning and is available from the following website.

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/one-for-the-lift-ticket/7970992

It's priced fairly cheap at 10.97$ for the paper-back or...

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Categories: paperback book, politicalpoetry,
Form: I do not know?
United States of Apathy
wake up hysteria, 
good morning america;
don't panic but your 
countries senile;
the politicians are evil.
what's the media feeding you?
propaganda and slander, 
B. S. by the bushel,...

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Categories: paperback book, politicalallah,
Form: I do not know?
Write Power
Suppose a bunch of crayons began to organize in clans; 
separated by color and ceased to intermingle. 
It'd probably be simple and easy to slip...

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Categories: paperback book, social
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things