Best Texaco Poems

The Red Texaco Fire Chief Truck
David J Walker

I’ve seen them parked on the shelves of 
antique stores
Too numerous to count 

That Red Texaco Gas tanker...

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Broke down
On the side of the road
Got no where to go 
Just a flat tire
Slept in the car till day light
Thumbed a ride to a...

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Oh my god is this 1787,
Was the constitution just written today?
Because the WiFi is down,
And I don’t know what to say,
I’m about to perform a...

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Who the hell rings bells anymore
whether in a Capitalist society, a Theocracy, an Oligarchy,
or a Dictatorship

	the DING has sure been taken out of the
	rama dama...

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I had dreams of yesterday
I woke up with a smile
My dreams took me back 
And it was better for a while.

Jeff was calling Lassie
We had...

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Nomadic Hearts

Seems just yesterday simple Jane's heart kept perfect time. Ticking, never losing a beat. Days seemed good. Nights seemed hopeful.

The streets of her town,...

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Of all the professions ever been in the world
      Some are rightly regarded today as absurd

    The...

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STOP TO SINK ABOUT THIS

What you don’t understand is that I understand those of you who don’t understand
I fully and factually get the things you...

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Almost every, time I regret a thing,
I've done it's from becoming my worst enemy
Why can I never seem, to step aside
Get out of my own...

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The czars and the kings will hold on to their throne chairs
until they are dragged out kicking and screaming,
tweeting all the way to their dungeons.

Nuclear...

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Love is the lost cause
bleeding in the dusty halflight
of a suburban sad cafe.
Remembrances of autumns past
and kisses beneath Texaco neon,
a wrong turn and a fleeting...

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Dead cars decorate the field 
behind an old Texaco station 
that smells of grease and gasoline 

This is their graveyard: 
a place to rest and...

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Mexico
     rhymes with Texaco
           What a Gas...

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   Petal-pushers and hula hoops
     ‘Greasy Kid Stuff’ – smear on the goop
   Baseball card gum that...

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