Long Sids Poems

The Legacy of Ain't Barbie
By Franklin Price
03/23/2022

“Ain't Barbie” was her handle, Barbara Price her married name
She was my wife, for most my life, this is how she played the game
Her roots were from the North...

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Lord, I Want to Thank you
By Franklin Price
02/06/2022

Lord, I want to thank You for guiding me through life,
For caring friends and family, most of all, a loving wife
You brought the two of us together, when...

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Through God's Grace
(with love for Barbara)
By Franklin Price
02/26/2023

Has been more than a year ago, when I lost you in my life.
I will never lose the memories. You are my dear departed wife.
The year we met...

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Why are you so far?

Why does pain leave a mental scar?

Why are you there and I am here?

Why am I not impressed when I look in a mirror?

Why all the questions but no answers?

Why couldn't...

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It reeked upon entering 
Like nothing i'd smelled before 
thinking about it now 
renders my Bloodhound to a Washout. 
  
There we stood, waiting on what? 
Nurses in casual clothing pranced by the one-couch...

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[For the uninitiated or for the inebriated
Or because I fear my story might be underrated
I feel I should advise you using any fact that fits
That Sixgun Sid has wooden legs and other wooden bits.]

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May these words upon my breast
seek to help and heal and deliver
for these times we may shiver
at tricks the evil lay at our feet
in our minds on our street
that we may fall but for the...

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They had two children
  a boy and a girl
They'd done their bit
  for a crowded world

Billions then living in poverty
  Conditions heartbreakingly unsanitary 
The 'moral' thing for parents to do
  If...

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Written by SaraThorp

Sids Bail Bonds
Guess who I've got in my trunk
Is this some kind of perverted inuendo
I need to speak to Sid
Sids not available right now
Last I heard he was rubbing two sticks
together and trying...

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Searching for some answers while constantly trying to ease the pain
Inquiring straight to God above, I ask him who was to blame
Despite of our imperfections, he reassured that it was his call
She was needed back...

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I'm angry and I'm in a great deal of distress.
I have learned that my wife is a murderess.
We've had four babies, two sons and two daughters.
By the time she was through, all four were slaughtered.
I...

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the consecrate rose
sits on the bureau 
its petals ebonized
now delicate
like life

the tempo of night
strums through whispers
of gentle wind
beneath the tones
of a lullaby
as shadows rock
back and forth
on roseate walls
while obtuse thoughts
peek in and out of mind
like...

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We put you down to sleep in your crib
We awakened to find, you were taken by SIDS
It was Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
That took you away from our home
So early in life, you were taken away
We're...

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she doesn’t know I left my urge          up in
the icebox      under the roof     on the floor
of the...

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