Long I smell a rat Poems

First off, there's no place like that 256! 
We are a base of divergent cultures 
with a space enough for each to partake and taste of the mix. 
Mehn there's no place like the 256...

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“Can you smell something burning,” Dad frowned and I said “Yeah.”
It had the smell of cooking meat, as well as burning hair,
Dad stopped the truck, lifted the bonnet… “Blimey look at that!”
Something was mangled by...

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Unquotable quotes - I

A friend in need is the goon who stokes your greed.
A journey of a thousand miles ends with the last broken step.
Don’t kill the brother-in-law until the sister is dead.
Butter your toast...

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Up til now I have avoided a scam with my name on it,
Despite it being tailored to suit me,
Even wearing a bow tie,
Appealing to my taste buds,
With words smothered in chocolate,
And smelling like my favourite...

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oh how they don’t like it when one of their own
turns on them,
oh how they don’t like it when he gets a gun---
oh how easily they lie when their lies are exposed &
now Mr. Dorner...

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Sobbing
Swallowed by the darkness
Praying for a light

Waiting
Waiting
And passing
And yearning

The moisture of the ground, the divots of age
A nasty crunching sound as I walk into the black
The wet crunch of my forehead meeting the wall
A wall...

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CORONALITY (1)

Polyneuropathy of a poisonous dark child,
Weapon of mass destruction,
Born to the family called Earth,
Name Corona, last name Virus,
Nickname Covid, aged nineteen (19),
Nationality China, who premeditatedly planned
The glint of bodies: naked, suited or adorned,
Down by...

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Man or Mouse,
                      or Dog or Cat


There’s something queer about my cat,
she’ll not chase...

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Shouldn’t we readily agree,
Not to it like a decree,
Feeling really very free,
Unlike the under-lock-and-key,
That glances are for lent newspapers,
That shouldn’t in the borrowers hands last?
And to a reader, the foremost of his helpers,
Subduing the passages...

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Melania spotted a louse
And caught a cab home sans her spouse
When Barron asked, "Why?"
She said with a sigh,
"Your father is in the dog house!"

Well, Ivanka soon learned the score
And despatched a nurse to the door
Nurse...

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Five senses link us to the world,
that’s what we’ve all been taught.
But each of them extends to fill
each corner of our thought.

Sight gives you the chance to see
the wonders all around.
But have you ever ‘seen’...

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We Complain
By Franklin Price
7/16/2015

We complain about the President.
We complain about the Hill.
We complain about all government; 
I guess we always will.

There's a lot there to complain about
'cause it isn't mighty fine,
Now we have to ask...

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You know my Sullivan a pet simian ghost
                           ...

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My goal's to reach a hundred
my friend he said to me.
What, runs in cricket, drinking pints?
No years you dope, said he.

I want to live to be a ton,
a century I must reach.
Why on earth do...

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(A true story.  In the year 1612, a young artist
named Artemisia Gentileschi, native of Rome,
was raped by one of her father's artist colleagues.
This is the tale of the subsequent criminal trial
and its impact on...

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A Doll to the Clinic

Overlooking from the counter
Then I saw her,
With a bairn on the shoulder
Wearing a face that mowed a smile.

under duress she enters
In nexus of tumult,
And couldn't bear the queue run
'Cause she had...

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He can normally smell a rat or two especially as

They rattle their cage when leaving the ship

Tastes defeat when they have won another day

Cuddles their clever escape of untouchable glory


The scent at the food bank...

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They're starting to gather in small clusters
fed up with being shackled by of a 5 star virus.
Letting a redrum rat control how they live and think.
Soon they'll gather by the thousands-then millions
shouting out "we are...

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Down the market where the meat-hooks gleam,
When the dawn breaks with a silent scream,
And it’s time to guide your face to home.
Another night has ended;
There’s a photograph on someone’s wall
That reminds them who you are...

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There is a man,
with a crooked tongue,
he rambles on,
about things,
needing to be done.
I can do this,
I can do that,
now really sir,
I smell a rat.
Nothing is so simple,
there are problems ahead,
I still remember,
what the others have...

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What About That?

I smell a rat. What about that
I'll get my hat and get rid of the rat
Mess with me will you
This is what I'll do

I'll get me a cat, to get rid of the...

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