Two's Company - Scout's Honour
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"At my bitter wits' end,"
was her mutter.
"Both of them?"
facetiously, I did utter.
"I'm beside myself,"
emotionally, she cried.
"A split personality,"
jokingly, I replied.
"No, I a...
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Categories:
facetiously, desire, emotions, humorous, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
frowny
...It’s a dark and cold night. Looking back and up, the moon
was a thin and useless crescent, barely visible.
‘What a wasted moon,’ I thought.
“A stupid moon,” I mumbled to myself as if to finish a c...
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Categories:
facetiously, drink, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
...Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep...
versus being alive
predicated victory videre licet lunatic
if Trump trumped Kamala Harris
and stole 2024 presidential election,
(whereat Musk brib...
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Categories:
facetiously, absence, america, angst, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Gloriously Luxuriating In Eternal Sleep
...Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denou...
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Categories:
facetiously, age, angel, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Where Are You Now
...He got a speeding ticket on a lonely road in Montana. It was 3AM. He was alone. All the “support” groups were declared “non-essential” by the AI super computer and sent home to “shelter in Place”....
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Categories:
facetiously, humor, irony, satire, scary,
Form: Prose
In a Split Second
...In a split second, life can be snuffed
Unforeseen events cause misery
Why this is so, ‘tis a great mystery
Of such our lives are suitably stuffed
None of us should ever be bluffed
Ac...
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Categories:
facetiously, death, fate, life,
Form: Other
How Many Times
...He was moving out to be on his own.
She was filled with happiness…and dread
“Drive safe…don’t forget to call me when you get there…
and remember…I love you…she said.
“Mom!” he said rolling his...
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Categories:
facetiously, family, love, mother, mother
Form: Verse
Sign of the Times
...Sinister snarling swindling scandalous scoundrels secretly slither shamelessly
Implicitly interrogated ‘bout innermost insidious illegitimate impertinences
Ghastly Grotesque grimacing gumption gorg...
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Categories:
facetiously, corruption, dark, humanity, society,
Form: Acrostic
Thoughts Uric and Urinary, Or: Does She of a Morning Stand Before Some Wicked Ablutionary Sink
...As I stood before the porcelaneous basin,
And streamed into its already uric and xanthous-stained depths,
A stain, a sight and a liquid yet yellower and more urinary;
And as cloudiness, not of min...
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Categories:
facetiously, allegory, anger, angst, art,
Form: I do not know?
Long Before Isis
...Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out a small nation...
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Categories:
facetiously, friendship,
Form: Prose
Simply Scorned
...I can see it in their eyes
their disdain piercing through
my ignorant gaze
rolling in discontent
weakening my resolve
as they close to dismiss
my very existence
I can hear it in their voices...
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Categories:
facetiously, anger, depression, feelings, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
The 2011 Grin
...Grinning facetiously, frozen in
The moment, zealously enjoying frivolity,
With smile, ovaled wide-open mouthed, clean bright
Sparkling pearl white teeth ... all majestically a glow.
Fire powere...
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Categories:
facetiously, friendship, health, love
Form: Free verse