Long Man about town Poems

This is a story about Freddie and Flo,
They lived in Baltimore a long time ago.
It might be called a May-September romance
And shows how love can blossom if it's given a chance.
Flo taught Sunday School, her...

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I'm checking the post daily
Can't tell you how exciting this is for me
Since I called the 1-800 number
From that mail order magazine

While one day sitting at the dentist
I picked up said magazine
A full page ad...

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He sat, open shirt, milking the good from the last 
few drops of that hot beer.
Waiting on a three legged bar stool
for something to develop, but nothing was near.

A bead of sweat rolled down ever...

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Club nocturnal

In Bilbao, on a warm evening, he walked past a nightclub 
walked in and had a beer; he could have gone to 
a Guggenheim Museum and be culturally minded, absorb
and mention it later in...

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Young Again***

The true story tells of a boy
Whose near-death experience
Took him on a tour of heaven.
The movie trailer shows the boy
Unable to recognize a photo of his
  Elderly, deceased grandfather... 
Until he sees a...

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He sure enjoys 
his life of Reilly; 
lavishly living it up! 
A globe-trotter. 
A man-about-town. 
He's a big hit 
with the ladies, 
and he doesn't mind 
all the attention. 
He's a big spender. 
Did I...

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date: Feb 15, 2017

Always the same little hash joint. 
For lunch, the identical dish - 
in Kremzer's, on Mott and Delancey, 
potatoes and yiddisher fish. 

His real name was Julius Henry, 
but "Groucho" is how...

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Could it be? Not to sound too poetic
That I’m alone, unwanted and pathetic

Well if we sum all the facts in our hand
Then we may find near the answer we’ll land

Well I am as we speak...

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"An Apple Thought Rotten"

Trailing away from a path all to common 
for the soul of this man about town
goes the way of the heart of an apple thought rotten 
without so much as a sound.

Now...

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The Rebellion of the Shadows

By Elton Camp

Shadows show the actual shape
Silhouettes that the person ape

For the elderly, defects duplicated
That advancing years have created

Stooped, lame, walking with a cane
Harsh realities to bring them pain

Shadows decided to...

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White painted face
red lips of expression
face representing emotion,
infinite humor but poetry
behind every motion.
A youthful curiosity,
sparking imaginaton of it's occupancy.
A man behind the make-up
stoik and unaware,
from loneliness depression releases anger from drunken
confrontations and swears,
he's scared.
Only freedom...

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On Monday color me brown
I’m not that “man about town”!
Ready to blend 
and not be bothered, that’s me,
when I’m gettin’ down
to business.

On Wednesday color me black
a little burnt out from 
not being slack.
Thursday I just...

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Man About Town… Richly – Renown
The Duke Of Derring – Do

Part Of His Fame… Debonair Dames
Saved From A Distress Or Two

Handsomest Face… Ladies Chase
All – Over The Place… For His Embrace

What’s A Gel’ To Do?...
For...

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leading covert double life
by day a man about town
by night masked vigilante
he fights for the righteous
branding his sword
protecting his people
threatened by villains
masked hero Zorro will duel 
prevail and abort evil plots
again save the day
before he...

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