Long Tache Poems

Cuckoo Dancers

Discarded dusty beer bottle lying dormant on the tracks
Commuters await their carriage
Adorned in business like macks
Trees sway in gentle breeze
Capable of more tension,
Performing their shedding of leaves
Far too many to mention.
 
Pigeon jumps on pigeon
Mating...

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Once upon a time when in school
When I was a handsome young fool
OK (Hands up) As a kid
I lied and you know that I did

I was in a poetry class
My eye caught a beautiful lass
She...

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every tap and scratch of chalk upon the blackboard
every tick tock tick tock of the classroom clock
every bored yawn, restless fidget, impatient sigh

these were...

every reprimand for running, telling off for not
every hymn sung, register taken,...

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Pipe tobacco is cheaper than hand rolling tobacco, that’s  good
But you gotta chip it an chop it and tug out all of the twigs and dead wood
Cos it’s as rough and as course as...

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Catwalks
Crowd gawks

Wont style
Forced smile

Strike pose
Fake nose

Weird strut
Flat butt

Scant curves
Unnerves

Small-hipped
Lunch skipped

Stick-thin
Chagrin

Faux tan
Pecan

Plucked brow
Used plough?

Long lash
Bleached 'tache

Plump lips
Veiled nips

Waxed mound
Astound

Forebear
Despair

Sweet girls
Morph churls

Sly pout
Grim trout

Taut thighs
All lies

Make hot
Post-shot

Airbrushed
Not hushed

Mere gaud
Defraud

Model?
Twaddle!

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Is it too late to go on dates 
with ladies, fat or thin?
An ad I place to find embrace;
replies come flooding in

The first is brash and has a 'tache;
the second, very gruff;
the third decrees she'd...

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Although my birthday's very soon,
I won't expect a card or gift 
(the shops are open late tonight);
don't think of me; I won't be miffed.

These aftershaves, these ties and shirts
are looking good - but save your...

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