Welcome to Chicago
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Back of the stockyards, over 100 years ago
Immigrants were easy prey, as many now know
Landlords would slap paint over rat-infested dwellings
then twirling their moustaches...
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Categories:
greenhorns, business, chicago, immigration, money,
Form: Rhyme
Playing With Words
...Playing with Words is Just a Funny Phase
Philosophical Phil’s phonetic phrase
Magnetized magazines moving in a maze
Generating goodwill in a gazelle’s goofy gaze
Cramping crafty crayfish in a cra...
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Categories:
greenhorns, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Greenhorns - Hiku
...*Image of Mars Planet Red by Pixabay & Chemistry on Titan by Space.com.
greenhorns
commie circle
aliens conquest
Martians of earth
ring of blue hope
titan assimilators
half bree...
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Categories:
greenhorns, irony, planet,
Form: Haiku
Purveyor of Ecstasy
...Miles in a coaster, a day and hours elapsed,
Felt the utmost relief when the whirling wheels halted;
So weary and dizzy, even a smile seemed so hideous
But an in peace slumber I desperately cra...
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Categories:
greenhorns, appreciation, beauty, education, environment,
Form: Quatrain
The Airing of Green
...mint
a green thumb
the green-eyed monster
as sure as God’s green apples
they gave my plan a green light
green around the gills
a green back
jade
teal
village green
golf course - putting gree...
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Categories:
greenhorns, introspection, tribute, green,
Form: List
Categories:
greenhorns, business, life,
Form: Light Verse
Cattle Men In the Evening Sky
...Cattlemen in the evening sky
Who have gone to their by and by
Have been seen now and again
By those considered special friends.
Ridin' the stars and ropin' the moon
Making it easy as they zoom...
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Categories:
greenhorns, adventure, friendship, stars,
Form: Rhyme