Mr Pijin
...Mono Aluminum Pijin they called him. A rascal and a sailor. He buys beef jerky by the bucket. He shaved his beard with a hand carved whale bone. They roll the flanks of mutton in braided lamb chitter...
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Categories:
chitterlings, culture, dance, fish, food,
Form: Chant Royal
Mr Pijin
...Mono Aluminum Pijin they called him. A rascal and a sailor. He buys beef jerky by the bucket. He shaved his beard with a hand carved whale bone. They roll the flanks of mutton in braided lamb chitter...
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Categories:
chitterlings, culture, dance, fish, food,
Form: Chant Royal
Scorpions
...We arose from restless dead since time before
your futile presence an ancient Earth did spore
your many variants, which we gladly sting,
no matter which holy deity or king
you set against. Serqet...
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Categories:
chitterlings, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Tribute to my Vogon Valentine
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My trusty twagwanger trolblasted me
I’m woken by chitterlings and crampoons
twilling and twonking
I cover my mastificle
And try to hinkle on the bandistrap
As I splurtwangle my ...
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Categories:
chitterlings, humorous, i miss you,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Happy Nu Year
...happy new year,highly disappointed but still hopeful,i returned home and thought-go online sho nuff a local restaurant said, yeah we still got some; delighted I swooped down to the joint and they rat...
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Categories:
chitterlings, appreciation, black love, feelings,
Form: Free verse
A Poem For My History Teacher
...I wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the standards
Of modern verse and composition,
Lyrics f...
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Categories:
chitterlings, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
The Vine Maker
...He had seen chicken necks
twisted and broken in Chinese markets,
the plucked dismemberment
of flapping wings.
With help,
he could have strung his carcass up
like a hog on a hook.
He w...
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Categories:
chitterlings, allegory,
Form: Blank verse
Swine Rush
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Little piggies in a hurry,
gotta run and catch that muddy dollar
As me rat race cheese-off,
peddling asphalt fumes of a 401k Harley
Punch-the-clock tired worker bees
drone alone in ...
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Categories:
chitterlings, allegory, humorous, jobs, parody,
Form: Burlesque
Chitterlings
...Chitterlings
China calls them feichang
Children hold their noses
Chicharrón down on Guam
Chunchule in Chile
Chew them up with hot sauce
Chunks of pig intestines
Chitlins cookin’ ...
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Categories:
chitterlings, black african american, christmas,
Form: Verse
The Menu
...Pig feet, hog maws, chitterlings, yams, greens and cornbread,
These are some of the things that our bodies are being fed.
Fat back, ribs, neck bones, macaroni and cheese;
Our hearts and arteries a...
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Categories:
chitterlings, body, fruit, health,
Form: Rhyme
Brenda
...‘Brenda’
I nether miss you nor do I wish were here. I don’t even think of you...often. You simply were...someone...ma...mom...mother...none of the above, Brenda.
There were too many bitches...
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Categories:
chitterlings, mother, care, care,
Form: Epitaph