Best Quick And The Dead Poems

There once a dare devil named Dan
smugly swung with only one hand
	forgot and let go
	of the rope in tow
sank in a thick pool of quicksand....

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The quick and the dead never greet
Polar opposites that only, if they do ever meet
Cross paths at the end of a trajectory of a blast of light
A split second, high energy collision of heavy weights
The final release in a collapse of quaking knees
The messenger of...

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I hope to heaven that when I die
I meet Woody Guthrie in the sky
and then upon a dust-bowl cloud
we'll find the grace to sing aloud,
and that the Heavens won't debar
the using of a stringed guitar,
though usually the angel choir
prefers to play  the harp or...

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Some pirates once used, this uncharted land,
    To bury their treasure, and contraband.
    Now, where x marks that spot,
    On a map, time forgot. 
    They all lie entombed, submerged in quicksand.

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I rode into town with the sun sinking low,  
I thought "it's too quiet, somehow they know"
I wrote his name on the bullet, loaded it into the gun
He had taken my farm and shot my dear son.  
 
I walked in the saloon,...

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