Long Do a one eighty Poems

I sat down to watch the radio

There was nothing on TV

I have two hundred channels

But there was sweet F.A for me

I could have watched one channel

And learned to fricasse

A chicken raised on wild grains

By a...

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Cont…”Bill Jump in my car it’s closer!”  Bill was just a step behind Brick as they hurdled 
over the tape barrier and raced to Brick’s car.
     “You got it pardner!...

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{"MY dance in the downpour was cut short, though, even for a second I felt my worries glide off from the tips of my fingers as the precipitation stuck against the flesh of my skin....

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You know that feeling,
The one you get 
Filled with pain, 
And heart break.
No, not the one
You feel in the 
Pit of your stomach.
No this is the feeling,
That grips your heart
With complete defeat, 
And total anguish.
I’m...

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When I was just a little boy,
Attending Sunday school,
The story of Methuselah
Outshined the golden rule.

He was just like Rip Van Winkle,
A kind old gentleman,
Who lived more than nine hundred years;
The oldest living man.

And so I...

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The airport is packed, and the lines are long,
Reminiscing about the days when standing for hours was nothing when you were young.
A volunteer comes and pulls a few away to go to the next one—
Times...

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You say things that are really mean
I say that I'm still pretty lean
You say I'm fat and that's unfounded
I say I'm not fat, just well rounded
You say my big waist makes me look like a...

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Split two razors and a line of coke
Exhale the dimes and swallow the smoke
Nine-twenty-one, eighty-six
Gamble my life like lottery picks
Cry tears of blood and see what your god does
Bringing future problems
To those who so desperately...

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I knew a man who always traveled,
 he worked hard and was ever on the go.
He said that he would like to own property,
 a Squire or Country Gentleman, as you may know.

I could not...

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ill drive down the highway at one eighty two
you'll say that'll we'll die but i know that can't be true 
cause the strings and the signs of fate pulled us together
and they won't tear us...

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There are times when I look back and wonder.
Did I ever do anything right
Seems a never ending problem
Born to party not to fight
Eloquent but never elegant
Brash and bold
Looking for warmth in the night
Too often found...

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Irma
 Franklin Price
9/7/2017

Irma came to terrorize
Spawned in the East Atlantic
Intensity as never seen
She's something quite Satanic

Became a category five
Before she touched the shore
With winds above one eighty
Around the wall and more

Came into the Leewards
Destroyed Barbuda...

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one two three four five and six
severn eight nine ten eleven and indeed twelve

thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen 
seventeen eighteen nineteen then twenty

twenty one twenty two twenty three twenty four
twenty five twenty six twenty severn twenty...

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One-eighty billion dollars one man has, they say.
It is outrageously obscene when once you know
half the global populace earns two bucks a day. 

Due to lack of healthcare; they have no way to pay;
ten-thousand people...

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How big is this great universe?
How far do the stars traverse?
Let us think in terms of sunbeams’
Travel-time on the photon streams.

Beams seen from Pluto at night
Take five-and-a-half-hours at the speed of light.
Just think of crossing...

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Cruising for a bruising, I wreck my blue car.
It runs on regular with no gas gage, goes far.

She ran the yellow light at sixty. I went on green.
Her witness date, on same yellow light.
My car...

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Silhouettes in Moonlight 

Silhouettes in moonlight hide the hair snow white
living for the moments when love is feeling right
embracing like the dragonflies in heart or wheel in flight
reaching for an elder love that flourishes at...

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This here is a public service announcement so listen close 
I mind my business
walk thru life looking thru my own scope
I'm a believer of ying & Yang 
as the ancient philosophers preached 
"as above, so...

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I've got a real fast car
So I don't know why
Seems the faster I go
The more life passes me by
Lot of people in the fast lane too
Probally end up where they started before they get through
Just...

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i'm in the badest of the bad the lowest of the low now i'm gonna get up and give a 
good show. Everyone stands up talks and they never walk, i'm here today to talk...

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I must call everything into question
now that you’ve smugly done your one-eighty,
mistrust your most innocent suggestion,
and find your lightest of motives weighty.

I see in a new and much harsher light
that what I took for truth...

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 a rant?

No twelve-step indulgent spree
for getting over you.
She’s forgetting in a hurry,
two steps will have to do.

First, she will handle her grief
spinning one-eighty degrees,
one short cry and she’s debriefed.
Mission accomplished with ease.

Next, she’ll deal...

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