Long Whoopi Poems

Juneteenth

On this day in 1865 was the day 
That the slaves were freed 
It was out to an end 
And our lives sort of 
Started to begin 
Begin to make sense 
We became more 
Than...

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She writes like Maya
She sings like Aretha
She dreams like Coretta
She reads like Oprah
She speaks like Barbara
She plays like Serena
She rocks like Tina
She rolls like Donna
She entertains like Diana
She cures like Maria
She paints like Edmonia
She kicks...

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I thought for a long time

to try and do something right

(in your eyes)

I've taken the blows

and the comparatives 

of every beauty you know



You love me, you loathe me,

I'm evil and detestable

You take me to my...

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I was flying down the highway, at a mighty rate of knots
The white posts flashing past me just a blur
Off home to my girl friend, for whom I had the hots
When out on to the...

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Black History Month is recognized almost everywhere;
I’d watch shows like Roots  but didn’t care.
Slaves sold from one master to another;
Separated from mother, father, sister and brother.
On the plantations picking cotton;
Praying to God they won’t...

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Black History Month is recognized almost everywhere;
I’d watch shows like Roots  but didn’t care.
Slaves sold from one master to another;
Separated from mother, father, sister and brother.
On the plantations picking cotton;
Praying to God they won’t...

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I did not plan to be a single cell amoeba
or this me, a conglomerate jigsaw of a being
a million times removed from primordial goo.
I was peacefully inanimate at times
endowed only with a little foggy awareness...

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Two rats can have over a million descendants
In eighteen months, talk about prolific
Don't know about all youse guys out there
But this guy finds that quite horrific

You'd produce enough gas for an atomic bomb
If you farted...

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Two rats can have over a million descendants
In eighteen months, talk about prolific
Don't know about all youse guys out there
But this guy finds that quite horrific

You'd produce enough gas for an atomic bomb
If you farted...

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The Keystone Cops were funny,
Chaplain, Keaton, Lloyd, and Fields too.
Laurel and Hardy, and Will Rodgers,
Were just some of the names we knew.


Who can forget the Stooges, 
Or all the pies we saw them throw?
Who didn't...

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Rats can have over a million descendants
In eighteen months, talk about prolific
Don't know about all youse guys out there
But this guy finds that quite horrific

You'd produce enough gas for an atomic bomb
If you farted for...

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The Keystone Cops were funny
Chaplin, Keaton, and Fields too.
Laurel & Hardy and Will Rogers
were some of the names we knew.

Who can forget the Stooges
or all the pies we saw them throw.
Who didn't laugh at the...

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Page 5


With the body in the wagon
Me and Doc rode through the town
looking up and down the street
not a soul was left around

The Doc gave out a chuckle
"These superstitious fools
They might as well pull this...

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She was a terrible lounge bar singer,
had a boyfriend who was a mob gangster;
bang, bang and a man fell dead,
freaking out Delores fled;
for protection she said bye to glamour.

She was hid in a convent as...

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I Love This!!
From Ghost with Patrick Swazey, Whoopi Goldberg, and Demi Moore


Patrick is a ghost and is after his best friend that had him killed..

Call it just deserts or poetic justice; Patrick figures out how...

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