Long Perty Poems

Alfie was the first son of a billionaire
Who bought a golden cradle for his son and heir
There was no expense that daddy wouldn’t spare
And perforated ping pong balls didn’t feature there

On Alfie’s one year birthday...

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the overnight stock person varies with the place of imprisonment---
each retail or grocery store is its own bumbling chaotic center of
amusement
for anyone who understands the nature of 
minimum wage + an extra dollar for screwing...

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Ah war out a walkin
Ut war a Sunday morn
Mah chores war all did
Warn't no need fer me et home

Ah walks along tha river
What does goes by er place
Hearin tha crickets singin
Un watchin dragonflies un tha...

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just as the laughter of the “law”
shifting quietly behind the disguise of order
weeds out our “civilized” society
by choosing the “appropriate” garbage cans
in which to throw people
who have been deemed for one reason or another
to be...

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down on their knees again
eyes squinted tight
hoping, wishing, hoping, 
wishing…
“praying”
for something or other
that will specifically & 
uniquely appear on their doorstep
solving all their current problems &
washing away any possibility of
a return to their present desperate...

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Bet youse cain't guesses 
Whats I's done taday,
I's saddles up ma ol' roan
Un we's set off'n the trail
Whar tha doggies likes ta play.

Thay war tha fattest critters
Tha grass ut war belly high
Thay's maws war so...

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happy are those who walk 
with respect, who know their
place in the world &
they do so, being propped up &
nourished by support groups,
from the family to the work place,
from a circle of friends to
the decency...

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beat down by a 
world of rejection
with wrinkles staring
back from that
cruel mirrored reflection
realizing the real world
that does not
rhyme like it might
in the most perty of
songs that we sing to
ourselves in times of
perfectly horrific tragedy
or jokes...

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Wul, I nev'r bin sombuddy and I ain't sombuddy now.
I merry'd purty Lizza 'n her daddy had a cow.
Livin' in the country is whar I wanna be,
Life is gosh darn simple, perty much lak me.

Pap-in-lahw's...

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Grasshoppers in the food
Grasshoppers in your bed
Grasshoppers in your drawers 
Grasshoppers on your head

"Boys we's gonna hast ta push um
Tha weathers helpin too
I ain't got no idera how fer it air
Till we's kin find some...

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The political party is a pot
Brewing beer not of barley
Preserved for the toppers not the lot
It is a beer to convince by deception to pry
Upon the minds of the lot

The powers of the political party...

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A letter received with glee, read with happiness, wrote with love,
           Sent in faith, dreamed with hope, with prayers prayed over it. 
  ...

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you look so fine wit your perty face

a girl like u i wouldn't even mind to chase

so A Girl why don't u come to my place

this aint no race

we can take wit a lil pace

we...

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Girl ur like a figment of my mind

ur beauty's so prime

that it should be like a crime

even when i speak ur name for one time

i want u to be my sun shine

to the air i...

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