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Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again updated
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated

Steely Dan sing queen (me)
outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary 
after Grahame Wood 
determined to meet 
the evolving needs of the community 
opened the first Wawa Food Market 
in Folsom,...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, america, anger, anniversary, april, baptism, birthday, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry
Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry

Whether arsonist at fault
or confluence of ripe conditions
triggering perfect firestorm,
the titan of fire beside himself with misery,
though no fault of his own
the raging bullish conflagration
a taste of inescapable...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, cry, environment, fire, humorous, inspiration, lost, winter,
Form: Free verse
They got the whole world in their hands
They got the whole world in their hands

Worth north of a trillion dollars,
(plus or minus a billion dollars here and there),
the unnamed obscenely rich,
(which top 15 billionaires
projected to become trillionaires
can be located on the computer...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, america, anger, angst, bullying, corruption, emotions, scary,
Form: Free verse
i did not use special characters
Inauguration Day 2025 - Monday, January 20, 2025, 12:00?PM

Aforementioned event interestingly enough
coincides with Martin Luther King Junior day.

The late reverend American minister and activist,
now and forever more immortalized in the promised land
despite his work among...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, america, anger, angst, anxiety, atheist, humorous, scary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Peanut Butter Strike
THE PEANUT BUTTER STRIKE

In my last year at school I was made a prefect,	
Why I don’t know for I was no model scholar
But thinking back and taking the time to reflect,
I’m happy to have fond...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, humor, school,
Form: Rhyme



Ability To Defecate Wildly Swings Both Ways
Ability to defecate wildly swings (both ways)...
between incontinence and constipation

Irritable bowel syndrome i.e.
the former excretory bout I address
the above (polite way to phrase diarrhea)
and avoid moon efficient cheekiness,
yours truly doth buttress,
a literal warranted pain in...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, 12th grade, adventure, desire, health, imagery, recovery
Form: Free verse
The Kitchen Not the Cake
There’s cheap lunches in the Barley Tavern,
each Wednesday, when after one o’clock.
I always chose to eat beer battered fish,
plus mystery cake a little bit ad hoc.
And this Wednesday here in the tavern,
Ted Austin joined me...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tommy and Mollie Conners Story
Jolly Polly Sue Conner was her name, and she came
from the grand old town found just outside of Harvest Oak,               ...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, family,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Curse of a Motor Mower
They’re motives of the weekend - they’re a gardener’s saving grace,
buzzing up and down and ‘round and ‘round cleaning up the place.
There’s nothing like the latest smell of a freshly mown down lawn,
once you ease...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Take One Off For the Scream
They all sit there lined up in a row 
Not knowing when exactly when to go 
Decisions are made on the image they are looking for 
As the applicants mumble at the door. 

Mommas got...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, beauty, death, film, fun, horror, money, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
More n nine months on
More'n nine months on...

and still I feel infuriated at myself
concerning squandered funds
passively, senselessly, and willingly
surrendered nest egg
to computer hackers
(imposters, jackknifing, and liquidating)
coercing me to forfeit funds,
whereby yours truly (me) blindsided
thru convincing telephonic dialogue
witnessing unquestioned trust

I...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, abuse, anger, angst, bereavement, crush, fate, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Merciful Deceased Mother Father Twill See Thee Anon
Merciful Deceased Mother - Father T'will See Thee Anon

Atheism underscores bedrock
schema Holy Toledo
encompassing mine secular humanistic credo
simultaneously tricking elusive illusion, sans
supernal radiant quintessence

blasting damn ming the torpedo
didst alight kindle linkedin skepticism,
asper this son kissed faith...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, cinderella, forgiveness, funeral, goodbye, obituary, son, woman,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
The Great American Witch Hunt
since may 2010,
before any kind of trial at all has taken place,
bradley manning rots in solitary 
confinement, 
“being denied exercise, any kind of social 
interaction & sunlight” as well as often 
“being kept completely naked”
clearly...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, life
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dark Ages Revisited
If the Dark Ages were to come again
and electricity would cease to exist,
pray tell what'd happen to us?
P'raps it be smart to start a list.

Well I certainty wouldn't be sharing
poetry across the web.
You can bet...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, humorous, nostalgia, technology, today,
Form: Rhyme
Nsideout
These are my words
There are many like them 
But these are mine
So I most stay true to the power of my deliverance
Because the words that I chose won't cost me one dime
But you can bet...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, art, me, poets, self,
Form: Bio
Verily I Say Unto You
Oh, I could tell you that all is fine that everything is just great
Just keep on sipping your wine and don't worry about your fate
I could flat pass over the subject as this would be...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, absence, jesus, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
The Ghost of Booger Holler
I ain't afraid of no ghost, friend,
You can bet your bottom dollar
I'm an expert on ghosts of men -
I was born in Booger Holler.

Now the Holler's a mile across
And the length is about the same
The...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I Know a Place
the ward is stamped white
a fidelity to fading, sometimes in a smear of shadows
in her corner, Lilly sits
                 ...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, age, care, devotion, giving, love, people, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Making Mandy Beg
In New Orleans for some highjinks.
Here to rally ‘round the flag.
She’ll be open to suggestion
When I’ve got her bound and gagged.
I won’t need to solve the riddle 
Of the chicken or the egg
To distinguish first...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, fantasy, gothic, satire,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Waffle
There is reason to get up in the morning
Raisin toast, breakfast tacos, and even bacon
But I would make case that there is no reason to get up at all

Why would anyone leave a perfectly comfy...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Play Within Your Limit
To all the folk still wearing
That choke-chain gambler's collar
Who try to play within their limits
But bet their bottom dollar

To the disappointed hopeful
With his head held in his hands
You heard jackpot sounds that shook the ground
Yeah...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, anti bullying, change, corruption, death, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Better Than the Best Of
Every day you wake up happy,
There are people who wake up sad;
Every time you have some good luck
Others’ luck is being bad.

Every check-up that finds you healthy,
There is a diagnosis not as good;
Every time you...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bet your bottom dollar, birthday, happy, life, people, time,
Form: Rhyme
Money
Money is a universal language. They say money talk bull crap walks
even the def hears it. You gotta pay the price to live nice.
Money can turn people cold as ice. I like my pockets fatter...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, analogy, money,
Form: Free verse
The Retail Game
There’s a place in never never land
Where shopping centres go
Every single night to replace 
The goods they have on show
You’ll never see them travelling 
'Cos they go through hyper-space
And sometime in the panic
Get returned to...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, business, humor, imagination, mystery, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Nature
Nature six letters representing a world of wonder,
one can  bet their bottom dollar there's more
undiscovered, mysteries, enigmas waiting, natures always hiding wonders,
there's a challenge being nurtured, evolution can confound
naturalist, wildlife itself, adapting, robin redbreasts...

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Categories: bet your bottom dollar, nature,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things