Sorry Burlesque Poems

The female world 
There is a new low in the Trump hatred 
by the political class, a new court case 
has turned out to be a titillating show 
where...

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I remember whenever grandmother sent me to buy talk time. She instructed me strictly to buy from the same shop, because she believed that their...

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I
All sorts of fears
A place of tears 
And all these years
I thought these letters
Strung together for a collector?
No, far from such 
C O I M...

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I left the pub one night in a bit of a tizzy
and saw some kind of being like a tin lizzie.
This turned out to be...

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Virtue

I wish
I could write
A love song
From the heart
About a mountain stream,
Were cynicism
Dare not enter
Not intrude
As sarcasm
Is banned
Sorry to say
Cannot have lived
That long
I know when hearts
Cries
For...

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Thanks for coming to my play date. 
I'm so glad you’re still my friend.
Let’s forget our little quarrel. 
[Duh! You think it’s gonna end?]
Hope you’re...

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Alexander Graham Bell

It was fine, quiet winter´s day I listened to distant noise, 
dogs bark -you can´t avoid this in the Algarve-
smoke from chimneys straight...

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Love is like ”oh sorry I forgot you by accident.” 
I just close my eyes without stress
It's the aching in my painful instability that just...

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I was  down in Westminster the other night

and there I saw a most horrible sight.

I thought I saw a man without a head.

Cromwell? I...

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I'M SORRY BUT I'M NOT SORRY 
I'M SORRY THAT I THOUGHT YOU WERE DIFFERENT 
BUT I'M NOT SORRY FOR GIVING YOU MY HEART 
I'M SORRY...

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Judge Mayer On the bench did sit,
Coldly appraising the man in the dock,
The man in the dock was, unperturbed,
He gave the judge a knowing wink,
At...

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Viens à Maman,
let me show you how that shameful thing is done, 
you konw, with ink on paper,
for you not to be sorry anymore,
in the...

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The Maniac  

This day has been one of great terror of the mind,
My illness made me hallucinate; my head was exploding
Bloody bit of brain...

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He married a lady he could not keep,
she in turn detested the guy she could keep.
And both stared at fate,
refusing to arrange life's love puzzle,
because...

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i have no story that is sad
and I can make you happy
in my bed telling nothing....

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