Lackey Poems

Gilty!

...One man’s opulence another
Might consider tacky,
Especially when catered to
By every spineless lackey.

Yet those who rake in riches
As their empire’s being built
Should, if empathy at all exi...

Peers

...Who are these peers to whom
I'm supposed to belong to?
Certainly not my soul mates, nor kin.
I fear they're lackey leerers,
peering and sneering,
in unsavory ways.
Smearing my reputation
by cl...

Mackie Avellen Is a Cad

...Sue's livid with Mackie Avellen
He's ditched her for her bestie Ellen
I pity poor Sue
Not sure what she'll do
As her pregnant belly's now swellen
 
Now Mackie is nasty cad
He’s den...

The Ballad of Villonia Beebe, a Life In Three Parts: Part 2

...The Middle Years

She'd been wooed by dukes and diplomats
From Nome to Nagasaki,
Kept by mobsters, bishops, bureaucrats,
And a movie mogul's lackey.
She'd been plied with jewels, a fancy...

Nigerian Police Station

...Once, I was there to check a tall Zaki
And it became reason to meet khaki,
Very clean but most offices tacky:
A cop could turn one into a lackey!
 
I know The Police is for the Nation
But I sha...

Kowtow

...fawns flops, flatters folds,
cringing cowers to comply
sycophant lackey...

The Lackey

...The young lackey cries
For the glorious achievements
That featured his past

His dreamy head flies
Daydreaming of contentment
That he's always last

His present is bleak
With overgrown overc...

All Power All Praise

...In the beginning there was God alone.'
He made all things to praise His name
Praise Him all creation' let everything
That has breath praise the Lord Yahweh.'
Praise Him all you demons.' Fall down...

The Instigator

...The Instigator
  
  The sky over Europe is silent, but there is fear 
  In the heart of many and the man who started 
  this fear is sleepless and swims slowly in his 
  swimming pool. 
  He is...

On the Eve of Camerone - Vera Cruz, April, 1863

...So, the regimental adjutant is to command 3rd Company
As we escort three million francs to Puebla?
Leave it to the general to trust such a fortune 
To a band of misfits led by a staff lackey 
Who...

Random Rhymes

...SMART ALECK
Smugly
Ugly

CRAZY MINION
Wacky
Lackey

CRAMMED BRIEFCASE
Obese
Valise

GOOD FRIEND
Lover
Cover

BAR-HOPPING
Beaver
Fever

The Lost Bell

...Out of the provinces, lies my line...
Toiling the toxic night, 
Nightmarish lackey of the routine... 

I, child of the leaves...
Left the soil,
My Memsahib detached... 

My soul beats the sid...

The Poet and the Performer

...She was the last to board the jetliner 
And had to stand forlorn 
As they found a seat for her.
Clutching a fat paperback
With no aide nor lackey in sight
She was flying to keep her date
With t...

Talking Smack

...*I've been called a 'shrew,' told I am self centered, petty, and a few other rather insulting and invective names, so here is my rebuke.


Who plays the straight man for the one known as 'S...

What's the Hue of Your Heart - Question Mark

...What’s the Hue of Your Heart?

Does ‘claim’ to be ‘___’ (1) not suggest one’s more Racist?
The Truth’s we’re all mongrels (and born of one mother!),
whatever our ‘Color.’ ...

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