Bilking Poems | Examples


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Immigration

Immigration history
Reveals a USA flaw:
Trump's grandfather and mother
Were 1-step ahead of the law.

Lacking moral character
They plundered all they could
Baby Donny quickly learned
Bilking government is good

Trump's Administration team
Found back-stabbing child's play
"The Richest Man in Babylon"
Reported a better way

Trump's tax-free cash is soaring
For his real estate is prime
It makes Trump happy knowing
Its all on the voter's dime!

The Best Gift Yet

 interlocking rhyme 

Some fellows like to give a lot; our presents, very rare.
Exchanging gifts is such a chore when timing is not fair.
Their endowments are so much more than we are wont to give
My spouse says not a word of this, content with how they live.
I do not want to seem remiss, but how do we start quitting?
Before I start, I will come clean, it is my pride they’re hitting.
It is my honest wish to wean our closeness of its milking
We do not need their lavish aid and hate to be thought bilking.
Their need to give is overplayed, I am a basket case.
Is that a van parked in their drive? A moving van, what grace!
One last offering, on-the-spot, repaid with diddly squat.

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