Damn Red Cooper
...Damn Red Cooper is a son of a ,
fast with a gun, trigger finger will itch,
all the folks say that he’s killed twenty men,
now he’s saying that I’ll be one of them.
Damn Red Cooper had his eye on ...
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Categories:
cathouse, conflict, evil, history, marriage,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Execution Style
...Sonny hid behind the melons
In a busy Asian marketplace,
Near the plantains and the mangos
Where the shadows could obscure his face.
He inhaled the air around him
And enjoyed the fragrant s...
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Categories:
cathouse, adventure, allegory, corruption, murder,
Form: Ballad
Paradoxically, Wrong Time
...we only wanted to be kids
not heroes.
we wanted to catch ships of clouds at the sky
not black seadevils in the drain.
we wanted lemons for lemonade
not salt for our wounds.
but there it came
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Categories:
cathouse, dream, imagery, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Cat In the Cathouse
...The streets are shadowy and solemn,
shook only by the drunken alley cries
of men in dance and celebration
of a Saturday night spent well
at Madame’s.
I sink into the fire escape,
as I always ...
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Categories:
cathouse, corruption, imagery, perspective, power,
Form: Free verse
The Fiddler's Tune, Part I
...There was a fiddler, back in eighty-three,
a young fellow who called himself Monty,
wasn’t much of a worker, that is no lie,
but oh, how fast his fingers could fly…
He came from the east, most ...
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Categories:
cathouse, death, history, jealousy, loss,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Smarts and Dogged Callisthenics
...The Smarts And Dogged Callisthenics...
Cannot Wall The Will Of Catapulting Mice
A titled unwritten poem requiring
little effort to dip and dive
I accidentally, inadvertently,
and unexpectedly ...
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Categories:
cathouse, adventure, blessing, confidence, endurance,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
I'Ll Settle Down Some Day, Part I
...Grant Murchison was a ranch-raised young man,
Arizona territory was his land,
Six-foot tall, and blonde around the head,
Raised by good parents, even well read,
The whole dang town spoke highly o...
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Categories:
cathouse, addiction, celebration, death, loss,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Wainwright Smith Rides Away, Part I
...He’d been on the trail many a month,
When he reached the town of Gulrith,
A mining village high in the peaks,
His named was Wainwright Smith.
He searched the west, looking for
A sister by the ...
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Categories:
cathouse, adventure, brother, crazy, dark,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Old Man With a Hard Hat
...I saw an old man with a hard hat on
Walkin' down the road as the sky turned dawn.
I said, "Howdy Bub, where you headed to?"
He said, "Don't much matter - just west will do.
I been roughneckin' se...
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Categories:
cathouse,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Boss Cat and the Botticelli Nude
..."Suddenly you remember an old Chinese tale in which cats once ran
the world until they decided it was too much bother. That's when you
stepped in, another story. Say you get up now and ...
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Categories:
cathouse, animalscat, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Vampire Moon (1)
...On Bourbon Street in the vertical rain,
In the dominance of shadowed domain,
Where the swamp gas reeks of a distant death,
Faint and remote like a dying breath,
Steam rises up from the cobbled gr...
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Categories:
cathouse, death, life, people, places,
Form: Narrative
Drinking With the Devil
...In a dreary cold township with life all but gone,
The raped rain-slick streets drag on and drag on,
Wet newspaper pages flap into the road,
All the power lines heave from a huge overload.
The Dev...
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Categories:
cathouse, allegory, imagination, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme