Long Gunning for Poems

Matthew delivers his latest bullet – tin...

from the Harris-Walz front
where liberal minded socially progressive
electorate doth agonizingly grunt
targeted in crosshairs scoped out 
eager and ready to be mortally wounded 
courtesy notorious big headed 
(and bigoted) infamous...

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My 1st round:

I know we just met and you seem like you're cool but there's a whole bunch of s**t that I don't know about you. Now I don't care about your race, what kind...

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“I knew then it was the last novel I’d write,
couldn’t go elsewhere due to my contract.
They wanted books like I’d written before,
but there was no way I could ever go back.

“Yet there was a loop-hole...

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In a clap-board building by the Tetons,
1919, if you’re wondering the year,
a man named Sid Hull sat down for a drink
in a saloon they called The Last Frontier.

Sid had been riding here for quite a...

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He never loved me
Well damn I just found out
Took a shot to the heart
Don't know where I should start
I guess I musta been strung out
Cuz I was straight up on his arm flashing that smile...

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...Burke grabbed Aura and they both ran out,
riding double on his trusty horse.
The word raced quickly through the town,
a posse was formed, as a matter of course.
So Burke pushed his mount, more and more.
They couldn’t...

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Good morning Poison Squirrels,
Today I am going to address your bowel problems

My class groans.
We don’t like to think about them.
We are teens.

Your mouth chews up food, right? Asks Mr. Lee.
Our science teacher is way too...

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The debate between free will and fate has taken a hard right
turn to neuroscience, Brodmann area 4 the primary motor
cortex of the brain located in the posterior frontal lobe
(the one cut out of the one...

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Have Mac - Will Travel!

I have iPhones slung low on each hip for fast draws.
Nope, you won’t see white gloves on this tenderfoot’s paws.
I post mostly rhymed poems, they’re metered, spit-shined
and can dazzle one’s boots...

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A coyote pack was howling as the sun crowned
Zack Waverly was weary, he'd travelled around
Zack takes up the narrative, better I found.

High noon, I rode the bay into Rotgut town
With fixed intention, I weren't playing...

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Don’t call Moses a liar he was much more than that
There are no sands of time just time and sand
(and not enough of either in this land)
Just one way is one too many ways skin...

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It's too many different spirits within me
My personality is constantly shifting
I'm the most humble but act different next minute
I'll admit it I'm twisted
Tell me to act innocent on my living sisters I'll kill it
Dead ass...

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I saw my first killing
At the tinder age of thirteen
Two men fell outta the towns saloon
And commenced to fighting in the street

It was at that very moment
My Momma she grabbed me
But Momma couldn't keep me...

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In the pit of the darkness it's midnight 
Cross horizon lots of new day
Fluorescent wrong casualties of war 
Spun out tires the interstate grows 
Infatuated with the debacry 
Fathom crew it's all that's lost to...

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Subdue my senses like serenities face
a heartfelt happy embellished
his canter skilled with heavens grace
a companionship barley unblemished

except that she rides alone

Into the storm gathering speed
she squeezes her knees tipping her heels
gunning for the feeling she...

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Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
where this time have you gone?
there's a war in the desert raging
but I don’t hear your voice rising.

Look, you know I took you for your word,
closely listened to every story you told,
you...

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John Wayne will be there 
and the steaks will be rare,
in Cowboy Heaven;
And the Posse will be – not  gunning for me 
- in Blue Yonder sky
 
The saloon’s never dry, 
it’s all free...

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Picking a president to run this nation,
Is our duty and honor and should be done with great jubilation.

Choosing the right one should be done with principles and tact,
Reverence, honesty, with moral convictions should be an...

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I gave you my heart
Then you tore it apart
You made me feel loved
Because of you I'm in an emotional flood

Now because of you I feel unloved
Clearly with you i misjudged
I thought you were the one
But...

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Crash down softly, where the red crush deepens
Charming, snatch your cherries from the stem
Rude health walking in the greenburst showers
Weather wonders whether she's with him.

Then fly downhill for the lost sensation
Climbing with a shudder back...

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We might have lost a couple battles
But We’re still here to fight the war 
All these soldiers fighting and they 
Don’t know who they’re gunning for

And the killings indiscriminate 
Shooting at civilians 
Laughing as they...

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STAYING ALIVE AIN’T NINE TO FIVE

It’s not an easy job
One must know how to fight and rob
It’s not an easy occupation
One must have keen observation

You’ve got to look both ahead and behind
Someone with rough edges...

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STAYING ALIVE AIN’T NINE TO FIVE

It’s not an easy job
One must know how to fight and rob
It’s not an easy occupation
One must have keen observation

You’ve got to look both ahead and behind
Someone with rough edges...

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A caveman is a slave man to his physicality 
He lacks the common courage of a kind philosophy
His calling isn’t running for a newfound sophistry
And yet he won’t be gunning for a new maturity

His progress...

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Am I really this far away
That no one can see or hear me
Crashing form hell
Under the debris

I called for you
I don't know your name
I shouted
But no one came

Deeper and deeper into the darkness
I will never...

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