Cackling in the Cabaret
...cabal cabbies cackling in the colorful cabaret
concealed conceited cadaver carousing cabbage day
carefree cantankerous canticle cleaning along the way
capsized catfish captain crooning as cabbies ...
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Categories:
cabbies, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
When Love Commands the Train Fulfills
...What Love commands the train fulfills,
The six thirty bounds to Coney Island
Where the green Ubers awaits the passengers
Morning greetings, (Urdu) of few words, were the
Pakistan...
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Categories:
cabbies, absence, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Gunfire Rages
...The gunfire rages
through the cracks
of neighborhood cages
as every fetid tenement ages
and voodoo economics suppress wages
of waitresses, cabbies and sages...
while the slick-shoe alderman e...
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Categories:
cabbies, anger, city, poverty, power,
Form: Monorhyme
Times Square
...Times Square was once a sleazy place;
You wouldn’t go alone there.
When darkness fell, you held on or
You’d lose all that you owned there.
Today, though, it’s like Disney World,
With tourists,...
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Categories:
cabbies, new york,
Form: Rhyme
City
...Ah, faith! Golly gosh, life in the city!
Hustle and bustle n' a big metro wander
Exhaustion, life, anger and pretty gritty
Misty, grimy lights loudly grab a beggar
The sidewalk shops like a col...
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Categories:
cabbies, city,
Form: Free verse
Tumbleweed
...Driving in the city,
I'm used to many things -
Crazy cabbies, honking horns,
Pigeons spreading wings.
In attentive texters,
Speedy messengers on bikes,
Nannies pushing strollers filled
With...
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Categories:
cabbies, nature, travel, , western,
Form: Rhyme
A Pill Named Death
...Self-portraits and portraits of memory,
Numerous notables I am not able to remember,
The barman at a hostel, cabbies at Paddington, the laughing policemen,
The thick and thin stink of places,
It ...
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Categories:
cabbies, art, memory,
Form: I do not know?
New York City - Midtown
... No Mickey, Minnie, or Goofy- no Jimmy The Cricket
The spirit of Sodom is Gomorrah...what I see is plain "Wicked"
Neon lit buildings and business brig...
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Categories:
cabbies, inspirational,
Form: Couplet