Games People Play
...Soon night will be coming
The lights will be humming
Las Vegas opens her eyes
The rich and their sifters
The dreamers and drifters
Will converge for the prize
Each night another born
Draw...
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Categories:
boozers, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Half-Skunked Drunks
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A truckful of drunks
half-skunked boozers
gun racks in the back
unlucky losers
pulled up to the pumps
for a gallon or two
only high octane
tanked would do
then one had a bad itch
h...
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Categories:
boozers, drink, fun, silly, word
Form: Rhyme
A Political Machine Two Standards
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A Political Machine
Two Standards
Tom Wright
7-5-2016
After laying out charges
the FBI suddenly flipped,
Now Lady Justice has had
her blindfold stripped.
Someone lent his opinio...
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Categories:
boozers, god, how i feel,
Form: Quatrain
Mike Hammer
...I was a self-admitted misanthrope
unwilling to lose or drop a case.
I often threw a rope-a-dope
just to win; I never lose face.
I worked the dark streets
for dark, and even darker, clients
...
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Categories:
boozers, anger, dark, death, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Glesca Weans
...Grouin up in Glesga wis nae mean feat
Pleyin in the back courts an dreepin the wass
Plouterin in puddles manky water sploshing aboot,
Searching in yon mucky middens fur treasure
Thrown oot by the...
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Categories:
boozers, character, childhood, children, clothes,
Form: Dramatic Verse
And Then There Were Nuns
...Black hoodie, black gloves and a black balaclava
Allegiances born of belligerent father
A council estate with yards full of tyres
A rucksack that’s laden with tin tacks and wires
Cars outside...
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Categories:
boozers, ireland, religion,
Form: Rhyme
38 Special
...God was branded to be non-essential
gamblers and boozers were preferential
the playgrounds were yellow taped
but no crime had taken place
while cons buffed their 38 specials...
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Categories:
boozers, america, god, goodbye,
Form: Limerick
Honestly
...I got many rivals
I’m always hiding in shadows
Searching for scripture to read
And meditate from my bible
I have a diagnosis
Your thinking a poor prognosis
But that is ok I know the one
Who...
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Categories:
boozers, abuse, anger, anxiety, bible,
Form: Rhyme
The Small Cafe
...The Small Cafe
Waiting...
for a friend.
I asked her to coffee,
she did not look well.
It is hard to say how.
A little disheveled,
perhaps heartbroken,
worried,
concerned,
flawed in ...
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Categories:
boozers, abortion, anxiety, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
The Night Before New Year's
...'Twas the night before the New Year. Gawd! All the beer had gone dry
Not a house or a tavern could renew our supply.
Was I too drunk to recall if what followed was fact?
While we drunks were all p...
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Categories:
boozers, drink, humor, new year,
Form: Rhyme
The Horseman
...You knew he was in when you heard the loud din,
his trademark for letting folks know,
he had arrived and his voice loudly cried,
to make sure that we knew it was Joe.
The whole bar was alert, w...
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Categories:
boozers, horse, humorous, smile,
Form: Rhyme
Crapulous
...Beet red face,do you just booze to lose.
Sorry old life,but it's a life that 'you' choose
Whatever you've done,and whatever you do,
your lives just a waste,sad but it's true.
Boozers are lose...
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Categories:
boozers, dad, depression, drink, drug,
Form: I do not know?
Unlimited Access To Success For All
...God on my side
Guides my path and controls ripples
That endeavor to sneak astride
Initiatives I take in triples
To galvanize and utilize my talents
To the fullest in concordance with the Creat...
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Categories:
boozers, poems,
Form: Free verse
This Site Is Looked At By the Cops
...This site is looked after by the cops
poets are drunk dopers
losers and boozers that never win
the cops are coming after the poets
they are checking names and records
and entering accusing wo...
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Categories:
boozers, anti bullying,
Form: Light Verse
To Us
...Run run run frm ya demons run run run its duck season
Run run run frm da wizard run run run frm da blizzard
Da lizard king skin ripper
Run frm ya visions
Run run run frm division
Redrum refl...
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Categories:
boozers, rap,
Form: Rhyme
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