Ma, Pet Assassin
...Chubs is gravely flat.
We remove our hats.
Her wheel deflated him—
Chubs, my cuddly cat.
Flounder is lying flat,
ambling on his back.
Her croutons choked him—
Flounder, my friendly catfish.
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Categories:
chubs, animal, humor, repetition,
Form: Light Verse
Chubs
...Chub wears a miniature Santa Suit
Within the circle, he is in cahoots
With several friends, they know what to do
They tell on each other and themselves too
He is standing on a snail. Isn’t that...
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Categories:
chubs, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
My Bianca Little Red Chubs Mcmonkey Just Got Engaged
...I know I was only kidding myself
I am not that stupid and knew this day
was coming thick and fast
When my Lkkel Red Chubs Mcmonkey
would eventually say
Uncky Chris I am engaged to be marr...
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Categories:
chubs, engagement,
Form: Free verse
Bar Scene
...After nightfall I hear the loud rumbling mufflers of youth
On their way to the hottest popular downtown nightclubs
Where they imbibe too much, dancing, cruising the night away
After midnight, the ...
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Categories:
chubs, dance, drink, night, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Black Friday Turned Blue-Political Limericks
...For four years I've longed to shout 'Adios!'
It's time for you to go, Donald J. Gross
Shove those burgers down, Chubs
Play with your balls and clubs
You're crude, belligerent and bellicose
An...
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Categories:
chubs, farewell, political,
Form: Limerick
Sheep And Other Animals
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I: Sheep
(A poem about Covid)
next door to 19 chimneys
and 'the dark satanic mills'
a flock of sheep is grazing
oblivious in the hills.
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Categories:
chubs, allegory, animal, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Love To Be Eaten By a Puma
...The puma is so sleek and black
I have no doubt he’d break my back
And carry me off to feed his cubs
They would love my fat and chubs.
The puma would come in the night
And grab my neck and hold...
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Categories:
chubs, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The More and Less of Me
...there is less to me than there was before
less....rolls
less....dimples in my thighs
less belly
less chunks
less chubby chubs
Yes, there's less to me than there was before
but oh....
can't ...
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Categories:
chubs, body, confidence, courage, how
Form: Free verse
If I Were An Elephant
...If I were an elephant
So big and strong and proud
I'd fit right in with any
Other elephant-al crowd.
No one would call me "fat"
Or "chubs," "obese," or even "thick"
Because all my ginormous f...
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Categories:
chubs, bullying, confidence, fantasy, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Love Kids
...Love Kid's
Why don't people
Who have kid's
Love them as much?
As people
Who can't have kid's?
Happy Birthday
To my beautiful baby Bianca
My likkel Chubs Mac Monkey baby girl
I will...
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Categories:
chubs, baby,
Form: Free verse
Lego Hair and Knicker Elastic
...Mum..Why did you give me lego hair.?
To upstage my Alan Carr teeth
And stretch that grey nylon pinefore
Tight
To ridicule my chubby young knees
And why dear mummy
Was my elastic bands so tight
As t...
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Categories:
chubs, childhood,
Form: I do not know?
Lymphomaniac
...Please
Don’t drink
The lymph
Anymore
Hospital wretch
Chubs in scrubs
Sorting sifting searching
Medical waste surprise
Biohazard beverage
White lumpy lymph
Don’tcha dare incinerate
My lymph
Want th...
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Categories:
chubs, funny,
Form: Free verse
As Chubs Run
...As Chubs Run
Chubs run like marathon winners
Laden with potato sacks
Heavy legs, aching backs
Rolls of fatty flapping
Slap Slap slapping
Huffing to get thinner
***Susan Burch***
*Won 7t...
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Categories:
chubs, people
Form: Rhyme