Long If the price is right Poems

The worst of the bright-cracks have passed.
The tumultiest of the bucketiest of the rains have proved not to last.
The cat has chirp-purred his way into a damp-fur snuggle.
    It’s Price is Right...

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I Believe in the
Virgin birth of Christ.
I Believe in Christmas.                         ...

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We two had never met,
but somehow he learned
of our plight of auto disrepair,
to which he responded in a most kind
and gracious fashion, in a manner one
seldom experiences in the whole of life.

The fact that I...

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Asked an NPR journalist
of U.S. soldiers
damaged in Afghanistan
direct fire
for one hundred everydays,

"Was it worth it?"

"I can't answer that question."

She asks more hesitantly again
of another veteran,

"Was it worth it to you?"

A good soldier,
"I can answer that...

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I have a favorite subject that I like to talk about…a quirky trend of which I love to speak.
It has to do with things that people simply throw away. What some call “useless junk”…some call...

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THIS WAS WRITTEN FOR THE FIRST BURNING BUSH
A DEMONIC DEMOCRACY

“We interrupt regularly scheduled programming to present the President”……
And yet he just keeps talking
No verbiage can he espouse that I would ever care to hear
While all...

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A DEMONIC DEMOCRACY

“We interrupt regularly scheduled programming to present the President”……
And yet he just keeps talking
No verbiage can he espouse that I would ever care to hear
While all I see is smoke and a lot...

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A DEMONIC DEMOCRACY

“We interrupt regularly scheduled programming to present the President”……
And yet he just keeps talking
No verbiage can he espouse that I would ever care to hear
While all I see is smoke and a lot...

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Human Organs Anyone

Early this morning, there was this dire warning over social media...
Of a van apprehended in Thailand filled with bodies of dead children..

There was a disturbing photo of young children, some half naked...
Laid out...

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A big welcome to you all who’ve travelled from afar
By plane by boat and motor car
For a reunion here in Hodson bay
It will be I’m sure a memorable day.

From across the sea some have come...

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There’s a tale that I must tell
Of a heart that I knew quite well.
This heart dwelled within her chest
And had given its very best.

Love and compassion had filled this heart
But it was taken advantage of...

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Intelligence, it seems, is very expensive.
It makes you work to gain advantage.
It makes you pay to find success. 
It’s the law of supply and demand.
To learn, one must also be willing to lose.
The scarcity of...

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She was going, going, going
Going for a song
When I heard that engine running
I knew she was the one


Well how could I resist her
She was sweeter than a song
The price was right, she was going cheap
Yeah’...

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All I want for Christmas
Is my two front teeth
All my back teeth
A Mercedes or Bentley
A life time membership to Hugh Hefner's mansion
The rights to the song "If I had a million dollars"
Cause then I would...

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You are a human being they told me, something you should treasure
But isn't a human being the only animal who kills for pleasure?
Man's inhumanity to man, a crime like no other
The first family on earth...

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Turn off your youthlight
and say farewell to the child
embrace the gist of it
WE ARE NO LONGER FUN AND WILD
Face the fact 
accept the fear
Examine thy cracks
between the front and the rear
Fun is no more
OLD AGE...

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Hello, cucarachas, whether large or small;
I can't stand the ones that fly or the ones that crawl.
I've got a place for you to spend your days and nights:
You don't need to win this trip on...

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THE PHANTOM DOLLAR
BY
JOHN M. ARRIBAS



My first day as a bell hop at the motel delight
Three men came looking for a room for the night
Clerk said I have only a room but the price is right
It’ll...

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The old saying - Everything's for sale - if the price is right!", is a fallacy where I come from, and I see that as a good thing...


And FYI: I plan to post many of...

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They're going to war with themselves by trying
to attack you
this is how you know they aren't bright so pray for 
light in dark fools
weapons formed will come against but will hit many
brick walls
a blank face...

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Baseball cards and hula hoops
  Baloney sandwich, Campbell’s soup

Howdy Doody and Mickey Mouse
  Mamie and Ike in the White House

American Bandstand, Rock 'n Roll
  Elvis the Pelvis, Nat King Cole

Pez Dispensers and...

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Did you ever need a second chance?
Or are you just a victim of circumstance?
Did you ever feel you could sink this low,
With no where to turn, no way to go?

Are you ready to throw in...

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My new striped sneakers might be cool
Or creepy, I can’t tell.
The price was right and socks or not,
They fit me very well.

With rounded toe and laces black
And soles both thick and white,
They make my feet...

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Bought at a thrift store
   The color was bright
    And the price was right
    By a mother ,a widow

    What did it matter
 ...

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It’s wanting from a few years of neglect,
relentless weeds crowding out the flowers.
But like they say, her bones are pretty good,
with some hard work and time we’ll make it ours.

Replace a few boards to repair...

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