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Food glorious food
Food glorious food

Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gunning corporeal essence christened Matthew Scott Harris...

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Categories: gunning for, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme



Hubert Might Go Upstairs But Not To Rome
Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. 

"I'm going upstairs," Hubert tells Ruth as he hoists himself out...

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Categories: gunning for, marriage,
Form: Prose
Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism
Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism

Psyche wracked with agony
impossible mission to extricate lovely bones
they wanna remain permanently abed.

I chiefly function to amass knowledge
courtesy assiduously, habitually,
and judiciously reading
an eclectic assortment of written material.

Yours truly woke
with ambition, disposition,
inclination,...

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Categories: gunning for, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence, age, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Within My Quasi Moat Toad Lily Padded Immediate Environs
Within my quasi moat toad lily padded immediate environs

Meaning the corporeal complex edifice
housing these lovely bones, 
where linkedin logorrhea ably
strives to break out 
in meaningless song 
yobble hum hum diddle dee dee
and dance courtesy 
an...

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Categories: gunning for, adventure, age, allusion, analogy, anniversary, appreciation, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Last Night's Freestyle Battle In Full
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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Categories: gunning for, angst, crazy, death, evil, grave, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme



The Harkness Greasy Pig Competition
There's an event in the country that few city people ever know,
It's called the Greasy Pig Competition held at the local show,
It's a novelty event put on when the riding's been all done,
A greased up...

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Categories: gunning for, humorous,
Form: Verse
March 8th International Women's Day the World Over
March 8th - International Women's Day The World Over

Down to the wire, before this
calendrical occasion doth expire,
though arbitrary twenty four hour
time set aside for guide
ding hand of the supposed/purported
fairer gender, yet human race, yet hide
bound...

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Categories: gunning for, appreciation, beauty, daughter, hero, husband, inspirational, tribute,
Form: Elegy
Sheer Madness
Horrendous events took place today in a small eastern town.
People across the nation look at these events in shock and frown.
A lunatic gunning down children grownups taking his own life in the end.
Looking to the...

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Categories: gunning for, faith, father, god, children, evil, father, fear,
Form: Rhyme
The Men Who Write Your Christmas Movies, Part Iv
“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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Categories: gunning for, growth, judgement, meaningful, sad, society, wisdom, writing,
Form: Epic
The Last Frontier, Part I
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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Categories: gunning for, age, anger, conflict, history, men, time, violence,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
My On Call Uncle Muse Never Sleeps
My on call (Uncle) Muse Never Sleeps
(aunt that title niece – ???
in this context pronounced nice)

Well...hm...I really did not wanna
     let the cat out of the bag,
    ...

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Categories: gunning for, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
Tales of the Lone Wanderer 2
Found the G.E.C.K and a genius super mutant named Fawkes
It's the lone wanderer, were their truly any doubts
On his way back, the enclave stun him cold
It's the lone wanderer, they must truly be bold
He wakes...

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Categories: gunning for, hero, imagination, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cinderella What Now
CINDERELLA WHAT NOW

I’ve often seen you zoom past Mars,
Blonde hair flowing and blowing
In the breeze of the milky way,
And its trillions of stars.
I so longed for you to be mine,
I imagined us sitting in the...

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Categories: gunning for, planet,
Form: Free verse
He Never Loved Me
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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Categories: gunning for, anger, betrayal, break up, goodbye, heartbreak, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Nothing Boot Toe Till Rot and Duff Feet
Nothing boot toe till rot and duff feet...

concerning yours truly
poor righteous leftist sole.

Great way to begin the new year
mine little feet about size nine wear
sneakers acquired At Ian's Boots
not for profit business 
origin of said...

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Categories: gunning for, 7th grade, 8th grade, absence, bible, death,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Fervent Aspiring Political Activism
Mine fervent aspiring political activism...

Gunning gusto, (while rosy axles grind)
for Bernie Sanders dagnabbit
nipped in figurative bud triggered zilch
prospects to germinate, 

cultivate, and amalgamate
late blooming spore port as 
schlocky, reedy, quirky, political neophyte,
whose aura, charisma, dogma
enigma,...

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Categories: gunning for, 11th grade, 12th grade, anxiety, change, health,
Form: Political Verse
Mine Fervent Aspiring Political Activism
Mine fervent aspiring political activism...

Gunning gusto, (while rosy axles grind)
for Bernie Sanders dagnabbit
nipped in figurative bud triggered zilch
prospects to germinate, 

cultivate, and amalgamate
late blooming spore port as 
schlocky, reedy, quirky, political neophyte,
whose aura, charisma, dogma
enigma,...

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Categories: gunning for, appreciation, business, humanity, leadership, political, strength, uplifting,
Form: Ode
The Outlaw's Angel, Part Ii
...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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Categories: gunning for, adventure, conflict, history, love, violence,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Happiest Science Teacher
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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Categories: gunning for, science, student, teacher,
Form: Narrative
Formidable flourishing fiends
Formidable flourishing fiends...

harangue since landing 
yours truly immersed 
in a dream-like 
fiercesome state of war,  
not quite a dream 
can be described 
as a "hypnagogic state" 
while virtually in Singapore,

where Katy Perry 
namesake of...

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Categories: gunning for, angst, animal, anxiety, conflict, courage, dark, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Brodmann Area 4
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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Categories: gunning for, children, death, games, lost, nature, romantic, song,
Form: Verse
Wanted: Slinger of Mirrors
Wanted: Slinger of Mirrors,

Tessellating lungs of fulcrum
Wading into scorn’s yellow Spring pond
We are flying to the airway Of. I hunger for our old hunger. 
We dealt our Hand and every Star
Only one pond my reflection’s...

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Categories: gunning for, dark, death, mirror, psychological, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Male Space
The study all alone,
in the corner of the home,
where a man can think,
reflect and have a drink,
be free of charging kids,
of daily cares be rid,
read what ancients say,
this is a male space.

In the wood with...

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Categories: gunning for, freedom, how i feel, men, philosophy, social,
Form: Rhyme
Nothing Boot Toe Till Rot and Duff Feet
Nothing boot toe till rot and duff feet...

Attempting nightly ritual
nsync with sole and
instep of beat
January second 21:08
two thousand twenty
footwear equipped with
custom made cleat

proudly standing tall
(think) as an elite
able, eager, and ready
to sprint skyhigh fleet
ting into...

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Categories: gunning for, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Dramatic Verse
Even If Yours Truly Could Repeat Every Grade
Even if yours truly could repeat every grade...

Without fail, I would flunk preschool
farcical scenario aside
truthfully, metaphorically, emphatically
resigned to life as replayed
male live violent scullery maid
forced to spend existence locked
within veritable grotesque
dragon filled dungeon paid

existential dues...

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Categories: gunning for, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things