Long Chrysler Poems

One day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.

'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause they buy from China (treats workers like sheep

(So farmers left...

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Do you think it?                               ...

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At nights we’d sit out on the balcony drinkin
Breathin
That thick mug air
Of a New Orleans summer evening.
Livin as easy
As they’d let us
In the bowels of the Irish Channel
Where magnolias bloom all year long
Amidst the cracked...

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i remember the houses through the years where we lived with our parents,
The Magnolia house when we came to Canada with our father and mother.

Our parents had a beautiful wedding,
Mother had a beautiful wedding dress...

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God is Good                                ...

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The 44th President “one who is blessed” in Swahili,
Happens to love his wife’s Shrimp Linguini.
His desk, in the senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy!
Renegade Tried to make it in to an all black male...

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It ain't no wonder that in this nation consternation and confusion reigns!
From wily politicos from the prez on down we hear the same old refrains!
"I'll see that you git a new sewer system in town...

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A boy King was born in Bethlehem piquing the interest of three very wise guys.
They came from the East guided by a mysterious Star streaming from the skies!
They got a fix on the Star with...

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Looking at the map,
the United States of America
is comprised of fifty states
I live in Michigan,
one of the fifty states
Specifically, I live in the city of Highland Park
It is a small city nestled within Detroit, the...

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Good memories of our parents and grandparents,
I thank them for the blessed years with them.

i remember when my sons Kirk and Erik and mom came to live here,
I would drive my children and my little...

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Dad began work pushing a broom at the Chrysler Corporation.
A paltry fifty-five cents an hour was his compensation!
'Twas during the Great Depression when times were really hard.
He was elated to get the job and held...

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This car is not exactly General Lee
If you look at it, you will turn away quickly
It can move when I get it started
I wonder why the previous owner of this car wanted to discard it
I...

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Hey, what's your number?....,
.....,I'll call you.

Anyways, here's my story,.....

Twice down off the steps, I fell
cause of my flyer mileages
in a two fars, one near, four rights
then touch your nose, place.

Lived, a wise ass owl
in a...

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In the late 1970s I was a bricklayer, and for about half a year we worked in a new housing allotment along a state highway in Ohio.  There were towns in the area, and...

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Our old Plymouth wagon sits junked in the yard
Collecting pine needles and rust
Ten years of abuse and driven too hard
Now an eyesore, the neighbors might fuss

Chrysler Corporation was not at their best
Before Iacocca, I think
"Car...

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I have a reason to live
Thousands of them to stay alive
So pure and natural like the oil from Olive
For this, I will always strive
In your sure way I will drive
For I know, knowledge, from your...

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All day I stared at the blank world
And could not tell 
The words invisible in my hell
I waited for the sounds of emergency
The blinking eyes and flashing red
The petals crushed upon the ground
I waited in...

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You think all I ever need is a full tank of gas
But my old fenders and taillight need repair
I grow weary of the way people stop and stare
Whenever I sputter and belch as we pass.

No...

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From the moment I feel that spark
in the palm of your hand and let it
run over the bone of my hip, I am placed in a 
euphoria that drags along with me for months and...

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We sing our sixties folk songs 
And live in our Woodstock memories
Dancing to Cher’s Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves,
Hanging on to our excitement at surviving the seventies.

Peace is our sign, with love beads and Go Go...

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Those are not the scent of roses in the breeze.
It is more like the smell of aged provolone cheese.
It wavers along with some olive oil and oregano.
Those are some scents I already know.

Who is lurking...

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What takes a company
The size of Ford
To rip of an inventor
Of its own accord

Typical conglomerate
Thinking they own the world
Taken on by an individual
He must be so absurd

In 1978
A Mr Robert William Kearns
Sued Ford Motor Company
For...

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A Million Bucks for a 2005 Chrysler?

By Elton Camp 

On e-Bay that’s the asking opening bid
For a clunker the owner wants to be rid

Car wasn’t much good when it was new
So how can such price...

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Mom’s old Chrysler is the scourge of my life
driving it, this sedan makes me complain 
forty meters on a ride, the wheels pop--
by that time, I miss the green light... again!

So I'm squatting like a...

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New Fiats can be seen on the roads of our nation
since they took the reins of the Chrysler Corporation.
One hundred and eight horsepower does not seem like a lot.
However, that's all we need.  The...

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