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Wimpole Street, Part 3 of 7
(In a 19th-century legal judgment studied by all who 
learn the English common law, Sturges v. Bridgeman,
the court found in favour of a "nice" doctor over a
"common" manufacturer, for reasons of pure snobbery.)

The Candyman Can’t

Some...

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Categories: down the tubes, london,
Form: Couplet



Do You Know My Abc's?
And it was there. Looking me in the eye, “I shall born you.” I was overcome with 
sadness.

Before I was born I died. I was one with everything. I was more alive then, then I...

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Categories: down the tubes, allegory, confusion, death, history, lost love, love,
Form: ABC
Art of the Con --- Repost
Listen to the chumps,
listen to the rubes,
screaming that democracy
is going down the tubes

But every wise guy knows
when the fix is in
To put all their money down
on the one who has no chance to win

It's the...

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Categories: down the tubes, corruption, perspective, political, truth,
Form: Political Verse
The Art of the Con
Listen to the chumps,
listen to the rubes,
screaming that democracy
is going down the tubes

But every wise guy knows
when the fix is in
To put all their money down
on the one who has no chance to win

It's the...

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Categories: down the tubes, corruption, parody, political, satire, trust,
Form: Political Verse
Three Sewing Sisters
The mythical fates had a dubious task
Sewing the cloth of life for men
“How did that work?” you ask
Well, get three sisters who sew
Give each one a specific job.
When done, down the tubes you go.
Anyway get...

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Categories: down the tubes, humor,
Form: Light Verse



The Debriefing: Part Ii
a.”possible?  what is possible?  you’re a solider, private.  “possible” to you is what gets handed down, via the chain of command.  understand?”
b.”sure.  certainly.  yes sir, i understand.”
a.”good.  because...

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Categories: down the tubes, life, june, morning,
Form: Free verse
Hemp Lights Glasshouse
All around the glasshouse grew hemp in fields
And when the plants began to ripen and flare
The beguiling grass-seeds caught in air
Flew through the windows of the glasshouse
 
Into the teapot boiling on the stove 
Into...

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Categories: down the tubes, political,
Form: Quintain (English)
6 Million Feet Under
6 million feet under going down dirty tubes and dark tunnels
gunshots,sirens and strobe lights lightning and thunder
falling from grace and i'm falling 4ever
too far gone i'm 6 million feet under

black clouds,bullets and rounds,genocidal gangsters turn...

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Categories: down the tubes, adventure
Form: Lyric
Gullibility
He can only find oil by opening a can of sardines.
By hoping to make money, he employs some strange means.
He takes his metal detector, and wanders along the beach.
Is there some buried treasure well within...

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Categories: down the tubes, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 6 Am
6 a.m.
 
I saw your pain compressed in
Tourniquets and plungers.
Memories condensed to tears.
Cooling your hand holding bottles.
Dripping in puddles that flowed,
With white wind down glass tubes.
 
When you pressed for it,
I asked you;
Why you wanted...

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Categories: down the tubes, addiction, dark, farewell, friend, goodbye, sin, woman,
Form: Narrative
Six Million Feet Under
Six million feet under...going down dirty tubes and dark tunnels
Gun shots...sirens...lightning and thunder
Falling from grace and I'm falling forever
Too far gone...six million feet under

Six million feet under...black clouds, bullets and rounds
Genocidal gangsters turn my smiles...

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Categories: down the tubes, evil, funeral, goodbye,
Form: Blank verse
Fighter
*Letter to my daughter who had various surgeries when she was a baby.


Maya
you are as still as a rose
as prayers work through
your small body
and needles rest in your arm.
I watch the IV 
drip
like tears 
down...

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Categories: down the tubes, child, children, for her, mother, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs