Year of the Rat
...How strange it is and how bizarre
a pandemic should threaten from afar -
some say a bat, some say a lab
and there’s no pill and there’s no jab!
Sniff! Sniff! I smell a virus worse than th...
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Categories:
manchu, evil, political, world,
Form: Couplet
Cinnamon Drifter I Am
...cinnamon drifter i am
i observe from afar
the world goes slower when time sours the stomach of life
i wish i had some white frosting as an odd sort of invisibility shield
cinnamon drifter i am
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Categories:
manchu, beautiful, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Hateful Exit
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A racist white man’s vehicle broke down
in the middle
of the blackest pride side of Motown
He scratched his red neck double chin
in Appalachian drawl dismay;
perplexed at havin...
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Categories:
manchu, humorous, parody, racism, wisdom,
Form: Light Verse
Marxism For Dummies 15
...The Chinese tend to take the long-term view.
They do things differently in Old Cathay.
A thousand decades, almost to the day,
have come and gone. There’s really nothing new.
While foreigners fix...
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Categories:
manchu, satire, , western,
Form: Sonnet
Merengue Bay Dance - Collaboration With Space Cadet
...Collaboration with Space Cadet (Wesley C.)
In him, I dance, my back strong, my feet steady.
I'm a tiptoe heart, whispered here in our laughter affair
with an anchor in plankto...
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Categories:
manchu, boy, boyfriend, dance, day,
Form: Free verse
The Pedicure Virgin
...I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.
My beaming spouse leads me, a dog on a short leash, into the forbidden citadel, the sanctum s...
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Categories:
manchu, humor,
Form: Prose
Scrawny Tony
...Scrawny Tony gaunt and bony scraggy bag of beastly bones
He was pony de la Manchu chum of Mister Marty Jones
He had an intense perception
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Categories:
manchu, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick