Long No dice Poems

“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.” 
Anatole France

"I heard you wanted to see me Boss?", Lucifer asked.

"I can always see you Lucifer", replied God. "No, I...

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Some people wind up with twisted knickers
When they get insulted by nitpickers
Words are sticks and stones
Causing moans and groans
When they hear heckling whispers and snickers

Women used to call knickers 'underpants'
They'd get them twisted with tauntings...

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I grabbed my keys and stomped to the door.
I wasn’t listening to any more.
Why was he always so calm and RIGHT!!!!
I’d rather be out in the stormy night.
He spoke to me as I started to...

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My House is For Sale

By Elton Camp

I put a sign into the yard.
It shouldn’t be very hard.
My house is just the best,
It is far above all the rest.

For sale by owner sounds so easy
Though strangers...

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("" In order for the light to shine so brightly,
 the darkness must be present""  -Francis Bacon)

Crossing That Siberian Desert Of Lost Souls

No joy, no peace, on that darken horrendous stroll
crossing that Siberian desert...

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I been havin' a real bad day.
Nothin's gone right and my skies are grey.

I usually am quite chipper and kind.
Not a more generous soul will you find.

But today if it could it just happened to...

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Government (show) Shut Down December 2018

Messianic Don found tarnished appeal
trumpeted bluster thwarted
with muted (hip hip hooray) Democratic zeal
played (on microscale) like quashed
ill fated braggadocio big deal

bombast, sans General George Armstrong
Custer's last stand,
viz Little Bighorn, achilles...

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Oh, for the love of God... 
      Why must you always stay 
 Tethered to me? Sever your strings.

     You keep creeping behind me;
  ...

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The other day, I was visiting the home page at Poetry Soup
and noticed a picture of a guy named Willie Shakespeare
His poems are okay but I found his plays a bit hard to follow
For example:...

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Up for grabs are looming sapidities of a summer summit.
Prompt as forecasting device, keen as cropland mice, 
trying to surpass oscine elves turns out no dice. 
Wondering how these yummy yodelers telepathize herself earliest, 
the...

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“Do you know where hell is?”
Lee Marvin growls in headsets.
New Year, sixty-eight.
Hauling freight ten thousand high,
bomber out of Platts, NY,
is cruising over white.
“Far out,” (someone on intercom),
“Iceland’s green, and Greenland’s ice.”
Routine run. Five megatons
of H-bombs...

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I been havin' a real bad day.
Nothin's gone right and my skies are gray.

I usually am quite chipper and kind.
Not a more generous soul will you find;

But today if it could it just happened to...

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Who Knew Your Forever Was


Who knew your forever was eleven months and a day
me trying to keep you , buckets of love in each play
Girl, your sexy body was the drug I desperately needed
yet you...

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That 9/11 Day

I was eager that day, 
Just as I was 
Any other day, 
To start my work, 
And state the statistics,  
Discourage clientelle,
Validate company antics, 
Embrace others
When I thought would, 
Make a good...

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One of your relatives sprouted behind my house
Cut it down twice...fat chance
Ended up damaging my half paid for home
I wanted revenge, so I resorted to torture
Dug up and hacked roots; soaked oil and poison
No dice...stripped...

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The Games We play 

Wait stop!!! 
             “still in Neutral" 

The Games we play

We are both confused  still walking around  in...

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Who has been too lonely?
and looked for empathy?
People aren't treated fairly by society:
they'll do anything for
some moments shared together;
hey, sad heart come closer:
I'll make your loneliness disappear,
with my kiss of dripping with honey!

Empathy is more...

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Always been creative in one form or another

It's definitely what turns my crank

Sometimes I wish I could turn it off but no dice

Been blessed with this very creative mind

Which can actually be a real curse

At...

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I Have No Time for You

By Elton Camp

Old Dad wants to give advice
To his child, it’s “No dice”
Though he’s elderly, he still tries
But his words she does despise

“No, I don’t have time for you 
More...

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Always been creative in one form or another
It's definitely what turns my crank
Sometimes I wish I could turn it off but no dice
Been blessed with this very active mind
Which can actually be a real curse
At...

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He used to take his lectures with a cigarette and a 
blindfold.
Can you publish a single sentence?
Didn’t work for James
won’t work for me
choclate sorbet
sunday
in the pipe playing
old mexican sweat
from an old tube amp
and how’s that...

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When I look at you
             I see me
         What is this power you have over...

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Always been creative in one form or another
It's definitely what turns my crank
Sometimes I wish I could turn it off but no dice
Been blessed with this very active mind
Which can actually be a real curse
At...

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He goes through each day 
obsessing over how to 
increase his earnings. 
Times are hard. 
He's drowning in debt; 
his bills gradually piling up.
Creditors bug him so much, 
he feels like screaming;
soon landlord will come...

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It's a round ball with a wooden bat.
Take some time to swing with that.

Ninety feet will get you there, 
From the lefty box (it's square).

Toward right, straight down the path,
Did you step up to take...

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