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Melvin Purvis do you have a light

...Purvis you captured me doing taxes in my parking lot catering to my panty drawer looking for cigarettes I never smoked silence abodes over the treasury department lunch break wingtips flew in and car...

Categories: dillinger, allah,
Form: Naat

FATTI GLI AFFARI TUOI

...FATTI GLI AFFRI TUOI THE SIMPLE PLEASURE OF LIFE IS ALL WE REALLY OWN IN THIS LIFE I TRIED TO TELL YOU BUT YOU SURROUNDED YOURSELF WITH A CONVOY OF HATRED TO MURDER ME I NEVER HARMED YOU WE WERE FAMI...

Categories: dillinger, allah,
Form: Lento

Untouchable

...We danced all night on Maxwell street 
singing the blues and eating chicago style 
hotdogs driving by Halsted my hair blew in 
the breeze as I winked at the Cermax river 

flowing of winter gree...

Categories: dillinger, allah,
Form: Kwansaba

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

1930 To 1939

...I am the empire state 
Building opens. 
   I am Nazi Germany  
Invades Poland. 

   I am the 21st amendment 
Ending prohibition. 
   I am Life magazine's first 
Addition. 

   I am the Star...

Categories: dillinger, history,
Form: Rhyme

A Chicago Christmas Carol

...John Dillinger had a gold gat
And wanted one rat-a-tat-tat
But Santa knew
Rittenhouse, too,
And thought we had enough of that!...

Categories: dillinger, chicago, christmas,
Form: Limerick

The Late Michael Jackson

...An enduringly charming singer, 
His heard voice did linger,
His conquering kicks of a Ninja,
To The Despairing, a ginger. 

Wondrously effusive a singer,
His lyrics a bell ringer
And to millio...

Categories: dillinger, celebrity, character, confidence, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

Outlaw Poetry

...Outside the laws or standards
Inside my mind there are no laws, no limits
In ur world is not where my mind resides
Like a bank robber uses a gun
I use words
Stick 'em up!

Laws of poetry be da...

Categories: dillinger, art, creation, freedom, hero,
Form: Free verse

Mythical Chicago

...Once "City of Big Shoulders,"
 Stockyards and industrial concerns:
  A man's self-worth measured
   By muscle and energy burned.

Today the stockyards are shuttered,
 The Face of Livelihoods ch...

Categories: dillinger, chicago, corruption, hope, murder,
Form: Rhyme

America

...America
I´m here to bring you
What you don´t need
Another heartfelt poem
Another heartsick plea
Worth less than
Chewed gum
America I’m tapping
At your window
At 3 am
With a bag full of
Sou...

Categories: dillinger, spiritual,
Form: Blank verse

To the Law:

...I salute you brother of mine
One whose venomous bile
Sends shivers down the spine
Of spineless rank and file
I have never known you
But like William’s “18”, your
Legend lives on afresh and new
...

Categories: dillinger, art,
Form: Ballad

Box Car Meltin' Noise

...The box car is full of noise
white and black owls hoo-ing in the night
midnight almost here
Dice being slammed
fifteen!fifteen!
College yuppies talkin' loud
too loud for my ears
Flocks of good...

Categories: dillinger, travel,
Form: Free verse

Bull Ridin' Dreams

...They buck and jump and belly roll—
Throw a lariat of snot—
They twist and throw them big ol’ horns
With everything they got!

They’re Bodacious, Yellow Jacket—
The world’s best bull buckin’ sto...

Categories: dillinger, animals, cowboy-western, funny,
Form: Cowboy Poetry