Long Hair of the dog Poems

I'll drink to that, three sheets in the wind, the Booze cruise                       ...

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Here we are in 1650, which is ten minutes to five
swing the wheel to the West, which is left,
put your sun cream away, man the mizzen and the stays
as we set off for some murder...

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I’ve always been a fit bloke and can’t remember when,
my last visit to a doctor was, and what for way back then.
I’ve always eaten what I liked and drank gallons of grog,
then had no fear...

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Defined By Idioms

Naked truth, bent nails
dead men tell no tales
bad Apple, broken mirrors
burnt out light bulbs, crocodile tears
spilt milk, goose chase
two cents worth, rat race
rotten egg, bad to the bone
eagle eye, no place like home.
bat...

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And so we traveled very, very high,
Our destination seemingly to reach 
The gathering mist and 
Dreary grey sky.
The path rather track that we took,
Could have been misunderstood,
For a stairway to heaven. 

Are you going right...

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11/22/20


Feels like I'm on and off of Mt. Kilimanjaro
Staying happy not wallowing in misery and sorrow
Trying to make the best of each day and night, since I might not see tomorrow
I know that time can...

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Of all of the maladies
that pay us a call
emptiness must be
the darkest of all

Like a thousand blank pages
of an untitled book
Or a lifetime of savings
that somebody took

This consummate void
that kills all your drive
is made up...

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He began a voyage to a land afar,
But on every step in his journey, he shrunk. 
He wanted to go to a far distant star, 
But soon diminished to the size of a skunk. 

He...

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Fog so thick that one could almost…
Part it with one’s finger

Enter into where dwell ghosts
And  mayhaps worse might linger

Just a few paces and  familiar things
Cease to exist

So few traces that memory brings
Penetrates the...

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So you woke up face down on 
the street
And you don't know the time 
or day of the week
And want me to serve you a 
hair of the dog
To steady your nerves and 
clear out...

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Hair Of The Dog


As my Precious sits on my desk,
shedding and watching with interest.

I take a drink from my cup.
A hair sticks to my tongue..eew yuk.

She is pleased with herself and wags,
her tail, hair flies...

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As I look in the mirror, I’m a road map of lines
My eyes are all bloodshot; it’s a sign of the times
When did it happen, I really don’t know
When more grey hairs than brown ones...

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Hoboes and bamboo
Lay up in the green belt
Waiting for the romanticism of war
The hair of the dog 
Doesn’t give up much more
Than a buzz that never ends
Somewhere a mother sheds a tear
For the son she...

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Today is Monday, start of the week
Open my eyes, give the clock a peek
It’s time to wake up and clear my head
I guess I better get out of bed

Wednesday is considered “humpper day”
Half of the...

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Come and Find Me in My Solitude


four fingers in a water glass
to keep the “creep” away
four fingers in a water glass
to keep the curse at bay
no ice, let’s keep it quiet,
hard bite of whiskey’s sting
“hair...

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Old dogs will not learn new tricks
Young dogs love to play heads and tails and chase after sticks 
Give a dog a bad name
Hi meet my new puppy, I called him Saddam Hussain
Your the man...

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The Hair of the Dog

You can drink til your dead as a log
And get up with your head in a fog
tomato juice cocktail
two jiggers ginger ale
and a taste of the hair of the dog

She calls...

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The wine that my ancestors drank
I found in an old copper tank
It was bitter and red
And went straight to my head
As into a stupor I sank

Now the cure was much worse than the bite
Unless you...

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One Two Many

Startled by the sight of
the horse in my bath tub
I stumbled into the den
feeling blindly for the bottle.
Horse liniment for the soul
“hair of the dog that bit ya”
enough to make the horse
leave without...

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my brain i'm afraid
has shut out the lights
the powers that be
are out for the night
they only show up
sporadically
hardly in want
never in need
like wind to a kite
does what it likes 
the hair of the dog
both barks...

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