Long Fair and square Poems

My wife and I met more than a few of this type of “shifty wheeler-dealer” during our many years dealing in antiques and collectibles.

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I May Be Mistaken
By Franklin Price
9/19/2018

I may be mistaken but, in watching all the raves,
 I believe our founding fathers are rolling over in their graves.
We're not acting patriotic when the parties have their say.
They're...

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Post post Modernism

Who wants modernity in any case whether
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I kept looking around to see if I knew anyone in this town but everywhere I turn I see the goal post digging and the people are singing Their faces have grown old but their...

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April 7—Figure something out in a poem

Why Trump?

For the last six years
I have been trying 
To figure out 

Why 40 percent
Of my fellow Americans
Still support Trump.

Still believe he was
The greatest President ever.

I  just don’t...

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THE GAMBLE

Of all the men who gambled there on the hill that day,
I felt I’d be the winner when I began to play.
And sure enough, it happened!  I shouted out for glee
When all the...

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It's Saturday night at the old town hall. The Caller’s voice crackles through the loudspeakers:

Ladies and Gents, square your sets,
Now join hands and circle left.

Ladies’ petticoats swished; and men’s boots shuffled across the shiny, wooden...

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Thy fiance reunites with me at least I conquered the war fair and square.
He kindly said: I love you, darling. Please, be mine for the keep!  
All pain fled, and tears ran away for...

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A boy stood before a wizard or possibly a bum he thought seconds before the boy had not noticed him there though he pretended to hide the fear.
I knew you were there i saw you...

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The steely-eyed hombre stepped down from the stage that sultry afternoon.
He looked about with disdain, then swaggered to the Cripple Creek Saloon.
His hat lay low upon his brow and swung low was a pair of...

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One need not be David Copperfield,
nor a card shark/sharp, scrutinizing
random display codified
computer algorithm doth yield.

The chance to "win"
may appear tubby zero
analogous finding a diamond
in the rough, even
with help of
a heartfelt superhero

nonetheless toil away, asper
setting suitable...

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Thinking about the good old days
Reminiscing for a little while
Some memories made me happy, some made me sad
Some brought a tear and some brought a smile
And I wondered
Were we the last generation
The last generation
To put...

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Ramblings of an Old Woman

I’ve lost my hat, its completely gone
It’s on your head, you put it on
I’ve got one glove on my right hand
T’other’s in the fridge as right as rain
It’s stifling in here...

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I’m searching for a way our,
Hoping to find an open door
Looking for a familiar face
One I’ve seen before

The tears well up in my eyes 
And distort the only thing I see
The shadows feel like home
Yet...

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You told me you had high hopes for me
But I'm just a regular guy
You act as if it's entirely my fault
That I like to cheat, steal, and lie
 
I told you, I was simply drinking...

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For some, final justice of the last day here on Earth
For some it is a day that they always dread
We all have our ideas on how that day will be
The last account of our final...

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                That sickly little ginger's eye is open again!
Oh she's loving her new sister in crime!
Look at them on the...

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you believe
I deceive

I'm the missing
link

I made you forget your
holy ink

take my hands we'll fly
only to sink

now what do you know

now where
and who do you go to 

I'm the hiss that named
you

so tell me who are
you

the...

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gift from father beyond cemetery,
bound red book named Euclid's geometry,
father was head teacher of known repute,
but the son's reading skills were less astute.

wrapped in fine velvet it was in dad's room,
they thought "a clear sign...

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Break me, mold me, my thoughts and shake me
never stop, this thing, and love me, to make me
the brave me and let you to always belong to, and crave me.
This fire, admire, fair and square,...

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 We are commonly predisposed 
To lack of common sense - case closed!


We seem to have it all and more and some, 
Well nourished and beyond, stern doctors say. 
Internet mis/informed by rule of thumb,...

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in my study on my table
to left near my keyboard,
you will find a Rubik’s cube,
that is indeed a perfect sphere!
a manufacturing error, I supposed,
like errors of mint coins we see,
instead of queen’s royal head,
you may...

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I’m walking on cloud nine
My victory divine,
To the legions full of haters
And the Media’s nasty baiters,
All I say is ‘told you so’
Go ahead and all eat crow!

A new dawn has now arisen
Gone the shackles of...

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Your Choice for President
( a suggested method for democrats this next voting season)
By Franklin Price
6/3/2019

Who is your choice for president
Of all who chose to run?
To vote for them as “Idol”
Would be “American” for fun

When the...

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Palindromes

One of our wildest, most memorable family sagas
involved my reckless brother, a racecar, a warm
spring day, and a non-adventurer, me. I warned, “Pop
said stay home today and mow.”  “Sometimes Pa’s a sap”!
he scoffed. “When...

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