Long Miltie Poems

Momma's in the kitchen frying chicken
Daddy's got the game on the old TV
Two brother's playing and fighting in the parlor
It's just the way things used to be

Momma stayed home and raised us kids
Never had much...

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We had wringers on our washing machines, 
And four dialed numbers made telephones ring.
Transistor radios with only AM, 
Vineal records to play, and you could stack them.
And, Hope entertained during our wars.

We had Jack Benny,...

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sergeant pepper smokes his stogie in a capsized submarine-
lucky lucy clad in yellow wears her purple diamond ring
rainbow demons play gin rummy on a sunlit july morn-
captain kirk on planet cestus wrestles with a lizard...

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Moshe, Larry, Curly,
Howls, cries, nyuks;
Three silly comic stars:
Smile, clown -- Cluck!

Chico, Harpo, Benny, Berle,
Moron grins, happy chins;
Crazy nutty comic kooks:
Funny jokes -- egads zooks!  

Alvin Ailey, dance gaily,
False teeth: Brush daily; 
Silly Sally, Dilly-dally,
Ollie,...

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Anything happen while I was gone?
I asked my dear Cathie today
Was sitting there in my big easy chair
When off to dreamland I strayed

Met some very interesting people
Marilyn, Elvis and Liz Taylor
John Wayne, Uncle Miltie, and...

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