Long Hootie Poems

January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris

date of conception:?  ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, eminem, 
where earth, wind, and fire...

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I, A. Robbie - Ham guilty for gobbledygook...
and ruffling turkey feathers!

An innocent A1 miss steak kin kith
once, a former main lion resident 
living social where Tigress and Euphrates 
converge and pool into Lake Wobegone ...

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Like a tumbleweed aimlessly blowing in the wind
across the infinitely open and wide prairie land
(which wasteland famously epitomized by T.S. Elliot)
a barren vista ravages the metaphorical landscape 
of one measly mortal malcontent male
bumping and scraping...

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Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks...
studious sexagenarian skinny scruffy scribe

My utmost humblest apology
for inducing the following
cerebral calisthenics upon your cranium,
but the cost of friendship
with yours truly 
(me – a foo fighting,
eagle eyed, beatle browed, beastie boy...

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So You Say Your Turning Twenty-One Years Old (Rap-Lyric) (Contest)
so you say
your turning
twenty-one years old
today

Hootie Hoo!
happy birthday

and you want
some advice
on the game
of life
so you don't
get played

okay! baby
you know
you just came
to the wrong
place?

so this is the
first...

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so you say
your turning
twenty-one years old
today

Hootie Hoo!
happy birthday

and you want
some advice
on the game
of life
so you don't
get played

okay! baby
you know
you just came
to the wrong
place?

so this is the
first thang
i would say

been over
touch your
knees

because
your about
to take
a real spanking

life...

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Hallowed specters fill the air; 
goblins and ghoulies have no cares.
Hidden in the darkest night; 
creatures scramble with delight.

Glowing eyes and mournful howls; 
leave behind the hootie owls.
Specters swirling with delight; 
flit too and fro...

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I was on my way to school when it happened.
     You see, I never miss school and for me,
playing hooky has an entirely different meaning!

Well,
I was scrounging up some lunch along...

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it is, what it is
what more can i say
one little alter can change
your whole day
at times we don't have the slightest clue
damned if we don't, damned if we do
no need to stress about it
forget feeling...

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