Long Mammy Poems

  Another Cruel Link in their Chain 

1.   Beginnings

Her babe was her joy, such a beautiful boy,
	and he suckled her breast till the end.
The slaver sought cash, bestowed mammy a thrash,
	sold her...

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OCTOBER 19, 1883, SOME SAY IT WAS A WEDNSDAY: DACKTINSTEIN'S RECORD SAY'S IT WAS A SATURDAY, ALL WE KNOW IS BOTH ACCOUNTS TO THE EVENT SAY'S IT WAS HOT,NEARLY 96 DEGREE'S THA'S HOT FOR THAT...

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What name can I give 
To a dream that is uncertain
To people who are unclear
To a feeling I am unsure of
To a message that is obscure?

What name can I give
To voices no longer heard
Advice no...

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I give my all ,  when I write these words , your probably sitting back , thinking this guy's, really had the nerve , maybe it's the drinking , stunting my learning curve ,...

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A boy saw his friends flying  the balloons 
and went to his father crying in saying , " 
Daddy ! It is my birthday too, 
Buy me some balloons " 

It is summer time  my...

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Cedars whisker the ditch along Possum Branch Road.  Such small little fellers, hardly worth calling a tree.  Some say haints put a spell on the whole two thousand arcres.  Maybe so, maybe...

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26 SLICES OF PEPERONI
1/2 CUP OF FETA
3 CUPS OF COTTAGE CHEESE
1 CUP OF MOZZEROLLI
1 CUP OF PARMASEAN
1 CUP OF CHOPPED ONION
1/4 CUP GARLIC MINCED
1/4 CHOPPED FRESH BASIL
4 TABLESPOONS OF DREID ORGEGANO
2 TABLESPOONS OF CHOPPED ANCHOVIES
5...

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Weston worked and worried
from sun up till sundown
for the freed-man knew the reason
that Pap had gone to town.

Pap had loved his family
but now that Ma was gone
Pap had said to Weston
"I can't do this alone."

Pap...

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Spud's New Car, a tribute to my ever so lovely hamster Spud  . . . 

SPUD’S NEW CAR

My hammy has hit the wheel, but; doesn't seem to be getting very far 
So I thought...

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"Lie still now, soldier", the Union General said,
As he knelt down beside the boy’s bloody, wounded head.
The dying young lad, no more than fifteen, if a day,
Wore the blight of cannon, and being in its...

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If i didn`t have you, I wouldn`t know what to do
maybe being dead would be the next best thing
in rough times i have bad thoughts...
sometimes i think of all the things i could do if...

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The old ones have all gone now
up those Golden Stairs.
There's hay stacked for the horses in the barn.
They're grubbing up potatoes
and stacking corn stalks high
'cause Bertha's coming home tonight
up those Golden Stairs.

Willie is laughing and...

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The draper shop in Drumshanbo town was busy on the day
The girls were moving bales of cloth and packing shelves away
Are you allowed to dance tonight Jackie's hall we all can sway
It's a ceili Band...

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When I joined in...
They said that I was tough
and life in the barracks are tough
So I decided that I will be tough
Tough as a rock
No interference of sentiments, emotions
What so ever...

I dreamt of moonlit nights...

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"Lantana"



Beans grown 
in a belly
planted they bloom
through crimson
they arrive 
trying to weed
the prickly parent purple 
Lantana out

The future is 
bright and shiny 
just like a new penny
that was held in the hands
of pappy and mammy

But...

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Monsters should look like monsters....
But most don't. 
I mean, some will actually 
warn you that they're monsters, 
But generally... most won't. 
Instead... you see
People you like,
People you love,
People you trust.
People you have fun with.
People you...

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Oh ladies, where I can find all you now? Oh babies, why
Does my telephone always bow? Oh Daddy, I'm so tired Teddy,
Mammy with breakfast shall come! 2 hours amounts to fly
From the Biarritz, you 2...

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Little princess you've had a long day,
Running,laughing,keeping boredom at bay,
It's been lots of fun but now you must rest,
You need lots of sleep to look at your best.

So take off your day clothes and put...

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I Don't Feel Well.

Tick-tock, tick-tock it's all I've heard all day
in the silence of my bedroom, where I love to play.
But mammy say's I'm poorly, not well enough for school.
She's opened up the windows to...

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Black-Eyed Peas for New Year’s Meal


Black-Eyed Peas
Black-Eyed Peas

I’m going to freeze
If I don’t eat Black-eyed peas
On New Year’s Day

Black-Eyed Peas
Black-Eyed Peas

Gee Whiz please!
Gotta have those Black-eyed peas
Mammy and Pappy always 
Said, “Eat Black-eyed peas
And you...

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McGee arrived early one morning
At the factory he'd worked all his life
When the foreman waved to McGee with his hand
And said there's a call from his wife

So McGee walked in to the office in haste
When...

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I will not be your puppet in a minstrel show 
Because I guarantee no Mammy, Jezebel, or Sambo lives here 
You may try to control my thoughts and dreams
But I will not be your Venus...

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What are we - twins?
His original sins to forgive
His disciplines need changing
Or its off the looney bins
We're trying to re-parent this fellow
He needs mellowing out
We hope he finds new schemes
They probably come from bad dreams
He's...

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Rena knew she was coming, long before I did.
She was pulling at my heart strings.
She was glinting in my eye.
She was whispering to me in my sleep.
Telling me of the love she'd keep...for me.

She was...

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"Why that ain't nothing but my red petticoat that you done bought me Mr. Rhett." mammy 
says after he ask her what the rustling sound is he hears under her skirt.  "Let me see!"...

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