Long Bookie Poems

UNAMUSED BY YOUR SCARE TACTIC A HEROIN ADDICT ADDICTED TO FENTANYL PERCHED UP AT THE BIGGEST FENTANYL OPERATION IN CHICAGO SLEEPING IN THE SAME  BED WHERE TWO FAMILY MEMBERS DIED FROM THIS FENTANYL OPERATION...

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Who among you is brave enough
(or dumb enough)
to take the challenge
Bet your life to beat the odds ...
One out of six
Load the chamber with one bullet,
spin the cylinder, 
spin it good
Place the wager with a...

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The game of chance karnolfell 
the trickster deal the threats 
by passing the little Carnes 
folk crawling into a Volkswagen 
chanting cackling mud wrestling 
spooning the Joker finally faced down 
calls in a favour from...

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The little pygmy named Pixie Poggly was quirky queenly quaintly and quickly, but rarely ever really did much can't you see.

Until one day, a raunchy rascal quaintly and shrewdly, Skinny and slippery that he was,...

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I could smell the ballpark in my glove
Lose myself in the crooked sky above
Hear the roar of the crowd in my bat
Oblivious to your epitaph called stats
Dreaming a dream, called baseball

But that was all taken...

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My destiny..? is preordained & wont be denied
No matter how many times I fail, I gots to keep on trying!
I know...pressure can bust a pipe, but it also can make a diamond.
Enduring lifes' atrocities...gots me...

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certainly it only takes putting the hand on the burner 
once
to figure out how stupid a relationship at the work place can be
to figure out how it will effect your coworkers
to figure out how it...

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It was very sticky 
Myron had to use his dicky 
Wiping his face 
Needing to build his case 
He used a four letter word 
In front of a girl 
She started to cry 
Knowing she...

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When stretched forever is my day                   
I while the empty hours away     ...

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I've been told I'm much too sensitive 
                         my eyes leak...

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There was a knock 
We stopped doing our tik tok 
Opened the opportunity door 
A cable guy was there from the local electronics’ store 
With orders from the mother ship 
He handed me a grid...

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And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of...

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So we’re going on a picnic with the pygmy, Pixie Poggly, being the quirky queenly 
quaintly quickly person she is and her friend a raunchy rascal reverently named 
Andy Bailey. As you remember he was...

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It was late into the night 
When Bert Ernie and I
Were traveling across the plans of Nebraska

Much to my surprise 
Bert looks me straight in the eyes
And says Mike, I gotta question to ask ya

With...

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I don't know about you
but the seeming me abused and cursed
had all my birth fingers burnt off
at the first knuckle before the first lullaby
from too many here hold my beer
blithely eager watch this rolls of...

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bafflingly 
    bemusing
         mind
       &
         mood
    ...

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I readily admit that at composing poetry I'm a rookie.
I've yet to be invited by a firm to publish for me a "bookie!"
Flattering friends tell me that I'm a budding Robert Frost.
Ha! That I'll believe...

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I had climbed the steep stairs two landings to the top floor
Paid the two dollars for my bed in the dorm as I had several nights before
Now you were not allowed to sleep here if...

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A children's rhyme called Little Ponzi
all our emotions are a two edged sword
they can soar or mess things to high treason
apparently playing evil A against evil B
has paid off at the ghetto bookie parlor
taking us...

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Elmont was hungry 
He needed money 
Trying not to be bitter 
Hearing the bull sifting through the ticket litter 
Two bucks thrown away 
Nothing came through his way 
Headed home 
All alone 
Planning what to...

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Note: Any one can be a Bookie, regardless of age, sex, or race!

With no regards for my life, or anything else.
I'm usually doing something silly 
to make me feel good about my self.
A negative person,...

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Decide

When you truly decide I can show you how to really live
I know it sounds fickle considering that I just learned myself
But I’ve always been a sage I was born under the sign
Passion is my...

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Tom Thumb got caught peeping 
Now his life is on the run
Little Bo Peep lost her sheep 
On a gambling junket she was on 

Little Miss Muffet is having to tuff it 
Out these days...

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 PURPLE 

Purple my soft moss seat in paradise 
amethyst crown purple so wise
High Priestess purpled silken silent and bold
 has no need to compete with cool 
Countess whose court is neat
but oh so cold...

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A suitcase was left on my porch that was full of body parts.
When I learned whose body it was, it really broke my heart.
I burst into tears when I learned that it was my son.
I...

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