History Burlesque Poems

If history is anything to go by,
When a storm of a different kind comes by,
We may wonder why,
We blew our chances goodbye,
For somewhere for friends...

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Bearded
 like a snail
 jealous of
 his big manly voice
Turning again
 with noses
 on spectacles
We seek
  exits from the theater
sans teeth
sans eyes
sans everything

To die
...

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3, 2, 1, ON AIR.

History for $100, Alex.

“A mutual defense pact led by 
The city-state of Athens,
Whose expanding sphere of influence 
Provoked the Peloponnesian War,
Leading...

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Armaments
  

Now that the debacle of Afghanistan is behind us
 we have to find something else to keep the war machine going
“Aucan,” an alliance...

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Mwizi! Mwizi! Mwizi!
Shika uyooooo
2am habitual
I toss my sheets stand by the window
They all speak at once
''Achomweee....''
I wear my walkies and switch my lights

I scrunch my...

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Was it just coincidence or the work of hidden powers
that  Jefferson and John Adams passed on within few hours
 on a very weighty date...

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The Niagara, 
       engulfing, consuming
              ...

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I'm getting old,
I have a suspicion.
How do I know?
Corrugated skin
and sunspots

of road map
composition.
If multi colored
would paint
a rainbow....

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I see the problem with the world and it is just as the history books put it, void. There is a rifle, a cellphone, and...

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Once Jessica Lynch of states army division
The sweet young soldier girl of twenty one
Served in Iraq invasion
Never fired her weapon
Honored  first prisoner of war...

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"My mind was once the true survey,

Of all these meadows fresh and gay,

And in the greenness of the grass,

Did see its hopes as in a...

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Adam was an 
acceptable accountant
And Eve a bubblingly 
bright bookkeeper;
Adam loved the 
First-In, First-Out
Accounting (FIFO) system, 
While Eve preferred 
The Last-In, First-Out
Inventory (LIFO) system; ...

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I do believe the world is flat,
I'm confident it's so.
Many adhere to the thought of a sphere,
ridiculous! I say no!
-For if this was an Earth...

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We’re all at rivalry with an undistinguished universe
 let the truth be known;
politics are garrulous about freedom and what they’re going to do
hell of hands...

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Need a fender?  A replacement hood?
J.D. Body Parts won't do you any good.
See, here you'll find ankles and feet in aisle 3.
Torsos on aisle...

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