Best Swigged Poems

Gene stood. Skyscraper demanding. Cold steel.
Thirty-five hard years. Over now. Just like that.
Corrugated box. Family photo. Timex watch.
Bitter coffee. 
Stale sweat.
He walked out. Sun blaze. Fireball. Air thick.

Sidewalk. Familiar corner. Man there.
Black skin. Weathered face. Cardboard sign.
Gene stopped. Eyes met. Silent understanding.

"Seen you," the man...

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The Bullingdon Club

In the hallowed halls of Oxford's elite,
A secret society did convene,
A gathering of privileged retreat,
A club known as the Bullingdon team.

With tails and bow ties and polished shoes,
They swigged their champagne and plowed their way,
Through the city's streets, with no excuse,
Causing damage that...

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My Iphone softly played Reveille as my 4:30 morning alarm.  Without opening my eyes, I found the phone in the dark and tapped off the alarm.

I gradually worked my way out of the guest bedroom bed where I have been sleeping the past few...

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Elmo Elmo was an elephant seller
He kept a white elephant in the cellar
He swigged all the bottles
Down a hundred throttles
And was turned into a big screw propeller












Elmo Elmo (C) rajat kanti chakrabarty
2014...

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Face fractured with fear 
As the Taxi drew near
The building was in the next street
" I'll drop you off here" 
Said Steve full of cheer
(Annoyingly rather upbeat.)

As you pushed on the door
It's sticky hinge  hissed
And you drew in your breath
At the scent of 'dentist'

"Youre...

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While looking for Viagra
with passion on its brink,
I dropped the little box of pills
they all went down the sink

Now on the pack it clearly says,
40 minutes take to work, so I
was keen to find them quick
and haste I did not shirk

My love was waiting in...

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CHANGING WORLDS

.. An' Unc' Nathan -
Well.., he just kept right on .., 
You.., (he coughed a long one) eyes.., 
They gonna' be square..

I blasted another.

'All that killing', said Ma..,
Lighting Grandpap's pipe.., 
Pausing.., for her own pleasure.., 
Then passing it on.

Brains blew all over the screen.

Big...

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Maybe I shall live long
Long and long.
Perhaps I might not defunct
After emptying this long life pot.
My boy shall die while I'm exist
I shall place him beneath soil of gold in zealot’

To his surprise the pot was drenched
In his sight the pot was emptied
He winked and...

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Old mother Hubbard got locked in her cupboard
But not just the cupboard was bare
She let out a yelp but nobody could help
Because there was nobody there 

She’d make this assertion, there was no perversion
She never considered it rude
She just liked to feel the cool air...

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Sister Susie swigged seven Sangria's,
Seven Sangria's sister Susie swigged.
Swigging seven Sangria's was so stupid -
Susie’s severely sozzled her twin sister twigged!

1/17/20...

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the Priest sucked in his Four Star Brandy
hoping that a drunken release
would help him with his conflict
in an alcoholic sleep of peace
the alky swigged his cider
vintage cheap and strong
the crutch to his addiction
making existence crawl along

from separate drunken corners
each in his own private hell
they were...

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Creative is the mind of this traveler
lost soul amungst the earth
given a second set of rules and standards 
since my day of birth 

not known for my talent 
tho art i do possess 
cause no one really cares 
when they smell the liquer on ur...

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Time was melting away. I was unaware; where and how.
My eternal companion in happiness and tear was gone,
The love which had compassionately held me near,
On that love, my busy lifestyle had played a con.

 
You had sparkled up my imaginations,
You were my addiction, you were...

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“A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still”—
But though we will with all our might,
A sober thought still wins that fight.

A fairer rhyme I thus propose,
Our feckless follies to expose:
“A man convinced by stubborn will
Has surely swigged some sturdy swill.”...

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Get your knees up, Mother Brown,
For tonight we're going to town.
Under the table, you might go
It won't be knees up though
It will be from the pints swigged down....

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