Long Get down to it Poems

I once walked into my backyard
and found two slugs mating in a bucket
I had just learned how slugs go about mating, 
or trust-I would have been rightly confused

Here hangs a long line of slime, almost...

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Alpharhymitize
(the first alpharhymized poem – by definition)
By Franklin Price
2/26/2017

Alpharhymitize - I think I've coined a word
Because it is most likely, one that you have never heard
Can you think about it? Have you heard this word...

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Kim Kardashian’s weight

why
the
****
do 
we 
as 
a 
species
give
a 
****
about
Kim
Kardashian’s
weight
while
pregnant?

why do we care about her ****ing weight while she was
not with child?

why do we care about Kim ****ing Kardashian at all?

she has been labeled a “socialite,”
she has...

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"The Forest, The Lot and The Carpetbagger"

In the middle
of it all, in 
The Forest,
I was asked
by a soothsayer
to choose 
a number

1, 2 or 3. 

I said 
in all sincerity,
“that’s a bad number, 3.
someone always feels
left...

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I’m no good at staying in one place,
I’m a man that needs to roam around.
Ain’t no good at raising a family,
or growing some crops out of the ground.
I’m no good at long relationships,
you can ask...

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Gordon Aikman was the director of research,
For the Better Together campaign for the vote,
For the Scottish Referendum so as to search, 
Folks hearts until they opted for the unity coat. 

Diagnosed with MND June 2014...

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I was at this here shindig just the other night
was all duded up and was feeling all right
When this fancy fella saunters over my way
it 'peers to me like he might have something to say

Gawking...

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Bigotry is ignorance 
Bigotry is not meeting but maybe one person in a certain category.
Bigotry is categorizing all people into the same box 
based on crazy things
like religion, the color of their skin,
even their hair...

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Graduation time is here,
It's time to kick it into to gear.
We got to shape up,
Because it's going to be tough.
We cannot run from it,
We cannot hide.
So we got to suck it up and take pride.
Pride...

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Daddy’s dead
My mother rushed in to tell me to get it over with
I sit thinking about how I never knew the man
My dad was not a God
But he wanted to love me good
I wonder why
I...

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I am just lying around she says
After I get to know her better 
I realize she is always lying

around the water cooler
around the lunch room
around the new teachers
around the old teachers

Lying around is what she...

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The Media
By Franklin Price
2/21/2016

The Media is quite confused
Finding they can't make the news
The internet's ahead of them 
And their lopsided views

Some media Republican
Some are Democrat 
The truth is in the middle
Where society is at

The internet...

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How is everyone doin?
i think you know my name.
but where im comin from,
let me tell you my game.

i dont have the money.
i dont have any fame.
dont have a social life.
dont have my own plane.

dont have...

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Animals remarkably deal with life and death situations.
They seem to have this unique ability to quickly move on,
and perhaps we could all learn a lesson from them.
When you get down to it, you only really...

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I've become a ruddy thumb twiddler
Checking out the box called “in”
Haven't eaten properly for days and days
Starting to look a little bit thin

Not obsessed with accolades though
The small talk is what I'm missing
Okay I fudged...

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Urban nightfall and dreams grow in the city 
This town has proven to show little pity 
To live here you need a very hard shell
At times the place resembles a portion of hell 
Yet there...

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