Atlanta
.... for public domain
Atlanta! Atlanta!
People laid out in the street,
dying, diseased, and broken,
poets in old Atlanta
found few words betoken
what none would read out loud.
Scattered in...
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Categories:
budd, lost love, war,
Form: Rhyme
The Archaeologists Wife
...THE ARCHAEOLOGIST’S WIFE
Sorry I cannot say her name, you all know her well
She was my brother’s wife at the Kimmerdale
My brother was an archaeologist
He found a pot in Egypt
In Tutankhamen’s c...
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Categories:
budd, fun,
Form: Prose Poetry
Scarlet Portmanteau
...Duke Luke by his bateau
Arrived at his chateau,
Had he travelled through large eau!
His mysterious rendez-vous
with Henry Thoreau
Yielded him a scarlet portmanteau.
Entering his bureau,
h...
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Categories:
budd, adventure, allegory, art, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
An Ode To That Which Is Given
...I
Moby Dick is a classic, so I've been told
tried to read when was younger, tried to read when more old
chastised my own self severely each time
for not having interest in words so sublime.
II
Billy ...
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Categories:
budd, introspection, thank you, words,
Form: Ode
Love, Peace and Dro
...We called him the dooch or the mini,
who puffed all his dope like a chimney
he would grind up that budd,
like a crip or a blood
and rolled up two blunts and a skinny.
The very first time that...
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Categories:
budd,
Form: I do not know?