Long Whipping boy Poems

If I knew what to say to let you go
I’d do it like a shot Better fast than slow
But you twist my tongue and my words get caught
And my heart and my brain confuse all...

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Heathens, scamps and thieves were lying in wait around the cove
Could not see them in gray dusk, but Captain Tawny Right felt them
Being an empath, as well as an Irish pirate queen, she was clairaudient.
She...

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(Talking to the mirror)
I done just about had enough of you,
I know what's coming next,
so get it over with quick, will you
I'm not giving up my lunch money again,
and no more of your homework gets...

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Sharp The Edges, Of Poet's Pen Turned To Fight,
( New Dawn,Third Battle And Final Slash ) -
Part Three

From within, a gifted calm brings a tranquil peace
to poet's soul that searched and found a new lease
and...

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There's a lady that I know
Everyone calls her Skitzo.
She's a CRAZY WOMAN!  Such a CRAZY WOMAN!
One day sweet,the next day mean.
With her there's no in between.
She's a CRAZY WOMAN!  Such a CRAZY WOMAN!

Got...

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There's no sentiment in business 

loyalty counts for nothing at all

my employers couldn't care less

but there's no chance that I'll crawl

I'm nobody's whipping boy to hell with them 

they won't ware me down, no surrender...

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New Year’s Resolutions
By Rick Rucker

This year, instead of cutting fat,
I think I’m going to aerobicize my cat,

When I hear the revelers’ sounds,
I can be happy for her lost pounds.

I think this might become a craze,
Sweep...

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Poured from purloined bottles of poison,
Whose drip is but a crimson crash,
Of whisky washing my lips which moisten,
With a humid dew of drowning cash.

From the pocket pours the absinthe green;
Tourmaline trash tossed atop the torrent,
Which...

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She brings me pain and without ill,
in the best of ways she brings me chills.
She brings me down to a slower pace,
to a lower height and another place.
She makes me beg and makes me plead,
and...

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March 2011

I’m the cries of the hopeless in the night
I’m the darkness in every man’s soul
I’m the reason that you give up the fight
And surrender all your control

I’m despair
I kill from the inside out
Despair
Fill you...

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