Long Chintzy Poems

Within these financial times of hardship we all tend to look around for some type of means 
for an escape?

At times, it just feels like there is no deliverance from these times and that the...

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Golda and Goofus.

or how a young Baer lost his luncheon and found that man need not live by bread alone.
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I saw it in one of those chintzy antique shops.
I recalled that it was made for travelling musicians
that wanted to work out scores while not being overheard.

It was old and all wood. When I tapped...

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No Time Like The Present    (Cliches Contest)



I need to get out of this place!
So very tired of everyone's bromidic rhetoric.

It's sickening...

The continuous chatter of a dramatic existence.

It's sickening...

Who are these people anyways?
Shhhh!...

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Cheated on her three times, said it was her reluctance to marry
Each time she took him back, finally on her finger his ring she’d carry

But even as she wore it, her fickle lover cheated again
She...

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A million dollars!
Are you kidding me?
I would have been happy with a million cents,
A million fried shrimp, a million point on Allpoetry.
But a million dollars!
What?
You are not kidding, right?

First I dance around the room, then...

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He saw it in one of those chintzy antique shops,
recalled that it was made for travelling musicians
that wanted to work out scores while not being overheard.

It was old and all wood. When he tapped the...

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Do Decide to Think Upon

Amongst your midst a great poet there now is
James Horn happens to be the name of his
Who other poets always love having around
Each poem often has left them spell-bound.

Out of the...

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In Spring young thoughts turn to fancy
life around us is renewed
ladies wearing gowns all chintzy

Do entice men with a curtsey
careful least it's a wedding bed
in Spring young thoughts turn to fancy

Now the ladies, a few...

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On Hallows Eve Octobra always has a dance
Her feet are fancy in heels, to give a better prance
the rest of us sit around getting heavier yet
While she dances with her familiar, a kittenish pet

Her place...

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Old chintzy flowers on lampshade,
The yellowed tag says ‘half a crown’,
Yet memories ne’er dim nor fade.

The price you paid a whole week’s wage,
Seems nothing in the here and now,
Expensive in old money’s age.

Oh, how the...

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