Drowning In Debt
...He goes through each day
obsessing over how to
increase his earnings.
Times are hard.
He's drowning in debt;
his bills gradually piling up.
Creditors bug him so much,
he feels like screa...
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Categories:
cable television, life, money, perspective, poverty,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Ode To Dark Shadows
...This is a simple ode,
To a soap opera from some time ago.
It was called Dark Shadows.
And it’s still one of my favorite shows.
It aired from 1966 to 1971.
Watching the show was a lot of fun,
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Categories:
cable television, childhood, fear, feelings, gothic,
Form: Ode
Playing the Skins Game
...There was a pair
Both having creative flair
Then another two
Having nothing to do
Twins on two wheels
Looking for a steal
No need for a club
Being in the woods with these guys who were ...
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Categories:
cable television, break up, fate, golf,
Form: Rhyme
Sounds of War
...There is rumbling in the skies
It’s not thunder
Babies sound a chorus of cries
Where is mother?
They have mastered the drill
To take cover
Prayer the only sanctuary, they stay still
Survive ...
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Categories:
cable television, conflict, confusion, death, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Remembering the 1980s
...Regarding fashion,Punk set out to gauge
The style of hair and clothes which would outrage.
John Lennon's voice was silenced at this time;
Mark Chapman was convicted for the crime.
A technical d...
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Categories:
cable television, birth, death, fashion, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Strange Kindnesses
...like ms. dubois i feel that i’ve always found something in the
strange kindness that can be brought on
in just
the exchange of money for a newspaper
the asking of directions and being told where...
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Categories:
cable television, lifepeople, people, , western,
Form: Free verse
Dinosaur Away
...Minds conform daily.
No yeilding of traveling beauty,
The fine wine of reading.
Ink existance,
Fading path,
Entering dinosaur's domain.
Mega-Cinema,
DVD,
Cable television,
How does the mind ...
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Categories:
cable television, death, life, lost love,
Form: I do not know?