Long Put your money where your mouth is Poems

Who among you is brave enough
(or dumb enough)
to take the challenge
Bet your life to beat the odds ...
One out of six
Load the chamber with one bullet,
spin the cylinder, 
spin it good
Place the wager with a...

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I went in for a minor surgery- something you have when you’re old and grey
which meant I had to fast…which meant I was hungry for a day.

For two days I went without eating…from early morning...

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Tossing out food is clearly a waste of money honey 
     maybe even immoral, not to donate would be a shame
              feed Gods creatures, somebody very nice
O' good idea,...

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I think the car companies have done pretty good.
By making cars with something better under the hood.

Just try to imagine what they drove back in nineteen twenty.
I’ll bet you wouldn’t be seen in that today...

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What is love, can anyone explain it

Is it something you can buy at the store

If you could, how much would it cost

Would it have a lifetime guarantee

What? No guarantee?

What if it breaks down within a...

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I remember your fingers
upon my teeth.
We were
bread and butter;
I was le Sac and you were Pip,
a strummer and a quip,
the mesh of wet and dry
that even distance.

But how long it’s been.
My wires are shaky, achy
with...

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What is love, can anyone explain it?
Is it something you can buy at the store?
If you could, how much would it cost?
Would it have a lifetime guarantee
What? No guarantee?
What if it breaks down within a...

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you drive pass 
with window in car 
and yet the street 
you drive on is not your concern 

it just happens to be me 
your so dam silly 
to think you will 
take me into...

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Today’s the date to thank, in verse,
Each health care hero, i.e. nurse.
Officially, it’s Nurses’ Day;
Let’s send some gratitude their way.

Of course, each night we clap and cheer
For those who’ve chosen this career
But more than that,...

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