Born by the Hoods, Class, and the Tough, Cold Streets
...Bound by the Streets, where the poor Class prevails,
With Cold, hardened hearts, some are born by jail
With slicked-back hair and a comb in our hands,
We Greasers survive in a rough, Tough land
T...
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Categories:
greaser, 6th grade,
Form: Couplet
Wish She Would Show Me Some Leg
...Wish she would show me some leg an eighty-year old guy said.
Three of his cousins turned around and flashed old Ed.
He laughed so hard, his teeth flew out of his brittle mouth.
That was hilarious!...
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Categories:
greaser, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
I Still Feel Under the Weather Today April 2nd, 2023
...I still feel under the weather today April 2nd, 2023
Unseen enemy invades my body
with platoon of green berets air
rating, and enfilading immune system viz
Hib bully knock and sock kin me
c...
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Categories:
greaser, adventure, anger, anxiety, april,
Form: Rhyme
I Loathe Feeling Under the Weather
...I loathe feeling under the weather...,
especially when nasty elephant
(named Thomas the pachyderm)
stomping to break loose courtesy tether,
where antibodies of mine
struggle to band together...
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Categories:
greaser, 12th grade, adventure, animal,
Form: Rhyme
To My Four Husbands
...You were all
so different
but it didn’t really matter
because always
I was I
and you
were you
First
you were a surly
fifties greaser
weeping in secret
while plotting
to steal the trea...
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Categories:
greaser, divorce, loss, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
How I Met My Hubby
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How I Met My Hubby (Summer 1955 ~ using 1950s slang)
I answered the horn—it was my friend, Bobby.
He told me he knows someone I might dig,
and he’d like me to cast an eyeball on him!
He s...
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Categories:
greaser, beautiful, boyfriend, nostalgia, romance,
Form: Free verse
Greaser
...You didn't go to fight World War II in Japan,
You didn't ever go to FAT CITY,
but smooched with a DOLLY
in my washed and waxed Chevy van!
Looking like a real DUCK-BUTT,
you have the looks of a clow...
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Categories:
greaser, brother, family, funny, world
Form: Rhyme
Midnight Thoughts
...... she'll forever be the first, and never
forgotten...enjoying smoking cigarettes...lookin', feelin' so mature...rememorable
New York parks...murder before me 436 madison ave...so easy for one to make
a fool of
themselves...I'm a pro!....being a young "greaser"...childhood baseball...the joys
of candy... climbing sturdy huge elms in front of house. lilacs,
lilies of the valley...swamps ...later......
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Categories:
greaser, confusion, imagination, life, nostalgia,
Form: I do not know?