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Form: Rhyme


Salvation Blues

Salvation Blues
You don't miss your papa 
Until he is slamming the gate 
You don't weep for your mama 
Until she lying in the grave 
You don't stop drinking whiskey 
Until the funds have all gone 
You don't pray to Jesus 
Until there's something to be won 
You don't laugh 
Until you fall on to your face 

And all of God's children 
Carry a sack of chains 

You don't sing, 
Until your full to the brim 
You don't feel free 
Until your tied to a chair 
In the county jail 
You  can't dream 
Unless you sleep 
On a bed of nails 
O God what have you done 
To the girl that kept me sane 
Lost in some town 
Sticking needles in her veins 

O lord can I swap my barrel of sorrows 
For a bucketful of woes 
And all Gods children say amen

Sinking Feeling Springs Eternal

Sinking feeling springs eternal...
courtesy sucker punched by vehicular travails

Truckload of banshees muffled
as more'n yours truly wails
he feels wheely tired
as one after another
significant snafu devilish

troublesome impish of the
poe pervert car -
tell driver unveils
scarier than Stephen
King's macabre tales
one illusory monster with

(by Scott) matted pointy scales,
who infuriatingly rants and rails
against dependence on
unstable, unpredictable, and
unmentionable car rear,
where his ruffled quilted wings,

stand on edge quiver and quails
analogous to how Jack
and Jill arduously lugged pails
splashing water to and fro
hither and yon some

drips drops long as nine inch nails,
actually pleasant sensation
though futile schlepping,
sloshing, and spilling bucketful
after bucketful eternal

rhyming task without reason
synonymous with Sisyphus,
but lo and behold
agony no longer assails
only fleeting ecstasy, think
Bos taurus came back

to animal farm -
carting... yup countless hay bales
(sh....) stolen goods,
under the whinny some nose
of neighboring Equus
at Clyde on dales,

one Mister Ed, a horse -
laugh he exhales,
said bovine won't be cowed,
cuz fodder knows beast,
that charity never fails.

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