Brett’s Big Birthday Bash
...Brett threw himself a party
Since he hit the big 4-0
And there never was a question if
We would or wouldn’t go.
He planned it with his mother’s help
And catered in the food,
With jars of flo...
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Categories:
brett, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
My assassination gone bad
...It was something about my murder my abusive husband the arson murders victim nine homeless man FBI questions my fear reaching out to FBI agents something is very wrong I know my husband is going to k...
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Categories:
brett, allah,
Form: Fibonacci
Special Needs
...My daughter met her boyfriend
At a camp for “special needs.”
Their story started years ago
And this is where it leads –
To her birthday celebration,
Which was perfect, yesterday,
Near at and ...
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Categories:
brett, appreciation, birthday, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Of East Asian Call Centers
...
There’s something to be said
for the local practitioner
Whose phone is not answered
by an East Asian call center
It’s nice knowing what you hear
is what you get
U...
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Categories:
brett, business, giggle, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Curtains
...
Setting: a rendition of Tara Plantation, 1860’s Georgia
Characters: Scarlatina (S), an oddly-dressed Southern Belle
Brett Rutler (B), a dashing, but presently quite confused, rogue
Scene: ...
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Categories:
brett, clothes, confusion, society,
Form: Verse
Imprints of our Shoes
...We tramp along the fire-trail to see a water view;
The sand is damp from morning rain, and imprints of our shoes
Are stamping in beside the chequered tracks of cycle tyres
As Brett relates the na...
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Categories:
brett, bird, environment, nature, people,
Form: Ballad
Our Big Lunch
...God Save the King! So echoed round
the village halls, the pubs, the streets
the day our Charlie Prince was crowned.
Homes decked with bunting, cake, and treats.
We celebrated with a rave,
o...
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Categories:
brett, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
When
...MY HEART SINKS, MY EYES WEEP
MY BRAIN EXPLODES, I CAN’T SLEEP
I DON’T UNDERSTAND, I NEVER WILL
A SWEET CHILD WHY DO THE COPS KILL?
CHILDREN WITH CHOCOLATE COLOURED SKIN
HARDLY ALLOWE...
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Categories:
brett, child abuse,
Form: Other
Bank Day Rassling Saturday Nite
...Everybody wants to be champion
Everybody got a plan
Everything's signifacent
Peoplez, my people!
Take your assignment
and task!
Get in line and do what's
asked of you.
Sh$t I have been doing ...
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Categories:
brett, culture, encouraging, film, humanity,
Form: Ballad
Bank Day Rassling Saturday Nite
...Everybody wants to be champion
Everybody got a plan
Everything's signifacent
Peoplez, my people!
Take your assignment
and task!
Get in line and do what's
asked of you.
Sh$t I have been doing ...
...
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Categories:
brett, culture, encouraging, film, humanity,
Form: Ballad
Elementary Mathematics, 101
...“After one-hundred, which number comes next?”
inquired Ms. Colvin as she studied her text.
All of us kids raised our hands high,
then Ms. Colvin picked Brett, this one dumb guy.
“Two-hundred,...
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Categories:
brett, 2nd grade, fun, math,
Form: Rhyme
Doctor's Pet
...There lived an old man named Brett
Doctor’s delight and hospital’s pet
He got finally convinced
It’s better to be deceased
Than be in medicine’s throttling net!...
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Categories:
brett, age, care, death,
Form: Limerick
Briana's Birthday
...Today’s Briana’s birthday
So we celebrated large.
Her boyfriend and his mother,
For this epic day, took charge.
We hadn’t met in person
For some fifteen months or more
Since Covid, helped by ...
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Categories:
brett, birthday, celebration, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Songs That Have Shaped Who I Am
...Chapters by Brett Young and Gavin DeGraw
Hell of a View by Eric Church
All of Me by John Legend
Rise up by Andra Day
Let’s Do it Again by J boog
On Tonight by Chase Rice
Timeless by Dallas Smit...
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Categories:
brett, 12th grade, anxiety, courage,
Form: Acrostic
Brett and Rhett - Nursery Rhyme
...Messy twins Brett and Rhett
Having fun playing with mud
Squatting and crawling
Diving and falling
In ooey gooey mud
Brett is sitting facing Rhett
Rhett spatters some mu...
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Categories:
brett, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
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