Mood Marketers
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They tell you what to love,
and who to hate
Their EM waves
dictate
when to have feelings of
disdain cut-rate
Callousness is the mental diss-ease
that permeates the air —
Phara...
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Categories:
cut rate, money, perspective, society, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Follow the Folly
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There’s a monkey tag-team of mo-rons
running things ~ Polly Would Pinocchio style
Dumb and Dumber dolts
got dim a dullard king Dumbo
dunce chair directing
Elephant Man, with t...
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Categories:
cut rate, humorous, perspective, satire, word
Form: Alliteration
The Enclosed Rhyme Life
...When our neighbor bought our country estate
One where daddy had worked with his might
Cutting down trees to heat the house at night
Where we slept without fright in a peaceful state
A place...
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Categories:
cut rate, farm, life,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
My Current Condition
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Video shock treatment
got my thoughts moving wavy ...
why ain’t my fear of the future
dawn misty dissipating?
This mental picture is getting more hazy
Dr. Strangelove says
the ot...
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Categories:
cut rate, dark, fear, horror, scary,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Cut Rate
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We deal in half-the-price knock-offs,
we deal in less-than authenticity
We deal in brand name imitations,
we're a cut-rate company, y'see
We got those faux designer items,
we got thos...
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Categories:
cut rate, culture, humor, humorous, satire,
Form: Light Verse
The Twelve Spammers' Christmas
...On the first day of Christmas, net spammers sent to me . . .
. . . a cut-rate Canadian Pharmacy
On the second day of Christmas, net spammers sent to me . . .
. . . two insurance quotes
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Categories:
cut rate, christmas, humorous, internet, parody,
Form: Lyric
Ice Cube Pie
...I always wanted two slices of ice cube pie
“You only get one”, was the standard reply.
I don’t know why I did
But since I was a kid
It was my favorite treat on the Fourth of July.
The pastry is know...
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Categories:
cut rate, business, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Organic Industrial
...rusted, busted, inorganically crop-dusted
hand-made on our very own assembly-line
low-flying tear-crying, cut-rate-buying
fair-trade-priced, but still...real fine
garment sweat-shop, Tex-Mex field c...
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Categories:
cut rate, animals, caregiving, education, health,
Form: Quatrain