Long Let them eat cake Poems

Fretfully aching to feel fit as a fiddle

After experiencing a severe,
albeit violent near lethal bout
of irritable bowel syndrome
(yesterday night August 30th, 2023)
triggered courtesy dulcolax caplets plus 
healthy portion of lentils,
I (a beatle browed, foo fighting,...

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Perpetual Quandries of Dischord

Permanent irreversible Attatchment disorder
A lemonade stand at the Mexican Border
A traumatised disorganised old lady hoarder
The incriminating evidence on an old tape recorder 

Elements of discontent shivering through a crowd 
Firmaments of promises...

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"50 Words for Poe: Witch"




She liked driving fast
The number plate in the dust
Read DOT.OZ.LimaLimaBrava 
Their destination was Wichita

Foot to the Floor 
Off Route 66 Silver Lady purred
Some Kansas backwater 
Galena sped by in a blur

He...

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What ever happened to people, who really cared
about the poor and needy in my beloved country? 
The current Presidental The administration would like us
to go away. Why not pray God will have the final say!

Yes,...

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Austrian princess taken from her home,
stripped of everything that she ever known.

Her mother arranged a political marriage,
sending her to France with a horse and carriage

Off to Versailles to meet her destiny,
To take the Dauphin's hand...

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The Rich/the Super Rich/the One Percenters.
Then there’s the rest of us,
The Disappearing/Shrinking Middle Class.
Our  “good paying “, American Dream financing  jobs gone,
Overseas.

The Chinese/Japanese/Indian/Korean/Malaysian, etc. have them.
We are left to grovel/slave away at many...

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Unsolicited feedback
across rock of ages woke
beguiling ghostly busty spectre
courtesy Marie-Antoinette,
(i.e. bride of France's arty choke
King Louis XVI) bespoke

let him eat cake, and (sic)
send back the bloody bloke,
aye suddenly begot idea rye
Jack Corner of zee desk
didst...

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I wrote these when the Soup was down and had no place to share them

History of the Day

Oct 15th
This is the anniversary of the first draft card burning
It happened at Berkeley when the country was...

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            Gauche Caviar*



I see! What's good for me, is not 
certainly not good for thee!
A mask, I must wear when they
do my roots, 'Madam...

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Duncan Hines

Long before homemade peach clobber
Just after apple pie and before fruit bowl in melon rind
Restaurateur  Duncan Hines 
Birth in 1880
His dad a confederate soldier
Mother died when he was 4
In his late teens attendance...

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 Privileged classes are unsympathetic or unaware of the plight of the poor;
Their pride, prejudice and hate;

- Madame so am I the peasants have no bread to eat.

"Question, so them if I am poor
And have...

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Adam said to God ,I am old and tired
let the young men populate the world
i want to rest
God said' Adam your seed is the first
your not done, eat more cake"
If God looked at France and...

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And God said 
Let them eat cake 
And have their fun too
The twilight grows bold 
And there's no time for growing old

Mountain larks sing
Glacier waters run deep 
In the crystal lattice chamber
Millions of organisms gathered...

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They don’t call this summer month “July” anymore.
There is a new name for it.  They call it “Thermidor”.
How many changes are we going to see?
People are shouting “Death to King Louis”!
Paris inhabitants don’t show...

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She was a high born whore,
who lived luxuriously
Didn't have one ounce of compassion for the poor

She licked the seethed bones
with a viper's tongue
Guillotine parlor games fed her bloodlust for doing wrong

Marie Antoinette
was as stone cold-hearted
as...

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Bastille Day for Real
Jean Val Jean French "Mensch",
Rescued "Freres" From a Societal Trench,
Confounding the Monarchy With a "Monkey Wrench".

Marie Antoinette's "Let Them Eat Cake",
Only Inspired the Revolution to Make,
Show the "Roi" a Farce, Royalty a...

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