Ignorance, Shoddy Goods and Poor Service
...Never accept shoddy goods or poor service, you have consumer rights, if they don't address your concerns, contact their chairman.
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When I was growing up my dear ...
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Categories:
fob, culture, happy, how i
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
...there was a young surgeon named Bob
who learned his craft on the job
on a post op exam
with stethoscope in hand
realized where he left his Swiss watch and fob
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Categories:
fob, humor,
Form: Limerick
Bread
...Fresh bread,
sometimes called “fob”,
very bland by itself,
but with peanut butter and jam:
pure bliss.
Aunt Bert’s
fresh homemade bread:
Molasses and raisins
weren't the secret ingredients,...
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Categories:
fob, appreciation, memory,
Form: Cinquain
The old fart alter cocker shuffle
...The old fart (alter cocker) shuffle
as one fairly long run on sentence
unwittingly made locally famous
courtesy residents here at
Highland Manor Apartments
as first one foot and then the oth...
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Categories:
fob, age, courage, death, grave,
Form: Free verse
Bad Day In 2009
...The 10th July 2009
7 soldiers died on the front line
Panthers Claw the op was called
Sangin district is where we toured
2nd battalion the rifles had a few bad days
With many a soldier still in...
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Categories:
fob, depression, in memoriam, mental
Form: Free verse
Darling I Am An Theatrical Actor Dont You Know
...I lurch and crawl from
Bar to Bar
As most of all regulars and barkeep alike
Unfortunately can vouch and attest for
As i am well known or shall I say infamous
Far and wide in these es...
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Categories:
fob, giggle,
Form: Free verse
The Journey of My Pen
...Long years back writing just was a job,
To my boss— a bugbear, my pet lob,
It then turned to hobby—
To numb noise my Dolby,
My life’s passion by now consigned FOB
Of an unpaid cabby,
A do-not-s...
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Categories:
fob, humor, husband, journey, writing,
Form: Limerick
The Heart's Eye
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"The Heart’s Eye"
When the heart’s eye
speaks to you,
you listen, just as
when the heart’s eye
sees how it all is,
you feel, touched
in the mind
the heart’s eye
i...
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Categories:
fob, heart, muse,
Form: Narrative
How Do I Feel
...Feelings are those seismic ocean waves,
they capture evanescent moments,
a Jack-o-lantern thought which might vanish,
deep breath of ink blue laden vortex,
I wallow in the beneficial sweep,
elat...
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Categories:
fob, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, character,
Form: Free verse
Untouched By Tempests
...A drug crazed world spins on ever faster.
Bodies tumble out of that carousel
never to be seen again.
Once whirling dervishes twirled
now they stagger and fall drunkenly.
Molestation hangs in the...
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Categories:
fob, poetry,
Form: Free verse
All That Education
...Parents sent him to school
to learn the Golden Rule
Son entered college
to pursue knowledge
Now he has a fine job
chained to a fob...
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Categories:
fob, education, parents, satire, school,
Form: Couplet
Sundown
...Its sundown, the day’s been reduced to a crack of lavender and fiery pinks along the Massif des Maures mountains. This evening we’re sipping cocktails at “Les Toits,” the Hôtel de Paris’ rooftop rest...
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Categories:
fob, beach, drink, teen, travel,
Form: Free verse
I'M a Writer
...Some folks smile when I say I’m a writer
Some smirk, suggesting I should get a job
My stories and poems make our days brighter
Fantasy often, and, occasionally macabre.
Some of my p...
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Categories:
fob, poetry, words, work, write,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Fob Echo, Diwaniya Iraq February 2006
...FOB Echo Iraq was a forward operation base near the Babylon site in the city of Diwaniya, in fact the US military put security hesco and fencing around the ruins for protection from all of the goons ...
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Categories:
fob, war,
Form: Free verse
Alcohol, Not the Answer
...The visit was over and off to my car
It was out in the snow, but not too far.
Cleared the windows and what did I see
Was that the bag I got for free?
There in the front seat lay napkins around
I...
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Categories:
fob, anxiety, car, confusion, funny,
Form: Rhyme
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