Wimbledon the menace of celebrity tennis
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Mr Dennis...grimace..what the Dickens is going on...the menace
Inevitability of a celebrity on every terrace at the tennis..
The profanity and insanity of rampant vanity..
The gist..a...
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Categories:
molls, celebrity, society, sports,
Form: Rhyme
She Smoked
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She smoked
She smoked,
my mother did, a LOT!
I never liked it.
To me she looked like
of those “molls” in
detective magazines,
later on television,
cigarette dangling
from the corner ...
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Categories:
molls, addiction, endurance, mother, perspective,
Form: Free verse
1940 Detective Movies
...in the 1940 detective movies
leading men were called gumshoes
women were referred to as molls, dames, chicks or dolls.
it was acceptable for the men to swat a woman’s bottom.
She giggled and acte...
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Categories:
molls, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
A Hodgepodge of Cat Footles
...The Rodents’ Bane
Sphynx cats
jinx rats
A Most Unlikely Scenario
Shorthairs
court bears
Cat Catalogers
Shorthairs
sort wares
When Cats Go Formal
Bombay
Prom Day
Tranquil L...
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Categories:
molls, cat,
Form: Footle
The Heat
...People like the Lord are watching you
The men who follow Jesus cared
You're constantly on an audition
And everyone you ever knew
Will eventually be there
It's hard to live under scrutiny
O...
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Categories:
molls, anxiety, forgiveness, humorous, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
We Would Be Known As Flappers
...Years down the road we will be known as flappers
In 1929 we are known as outrageous open hussies
Shunned by the church-y women, loved by the nightclub crowd
We are to be feared and adored, yin and...
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Categories:
molls, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry
I Get Along Without You Very Well
...My life's been fine without you -- really has.
A Belgian bar has opened in the square,
and weekends, we do beer and tapas there,
then Malcolm and Elaine's place, for some jazz
and Jamieson's....
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Categories:
molls, romantic,
Form: Sonnet
Work To Rule
...We work-to-rule, we're molls,
We are not unfeeling dolls,
Molls don't make extra cuppas for you,
We write our own rules to suit,
It's up to you not to be rude,
I say, "Pappa don't preach!" to yo...
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Categories:
molls, feelings, humorous, woman,
Form: Free verse
Double Standard
...(To the tune of "Like a Virgin").
Not a virgin,
Queen of the molls,
Not a virgin,
So I've been told,
Not a virgin,
I'm like, well, old,
Not a virgin,
Please stop your moans,
Not a virgin,
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Categories:
molls, fun, woman,
Form: Free verse
Drugs Should Be Experienced, But Sobriety Should Be Most Glorified
...Eat shrooms til everythings pretty, pop molls til your caring and witty.
Smoke trees til your chill as the breeze, and drink to forget what you need.
Do all the trippys to think like the hippie, make...
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Categories:
molls, growing up, people, recovery
Form: Free verse
Tole Boof
...on confessional summer streets of city
the heat scums in like a churlish treacle
in back of the five and dime bodies drift by
cotton barely captures their hides of leather
mock they come feasting...
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Categories:
molls, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Old Blue Eyes and the Mafia
...Frances Albert Sinatra
Was said to have ties to the mafia
Backstage bullets flew as old blue eyes crooned
Gangsters fell as their gun molls swooned
Entry for Catie Lindsay's Clerihew Contes...
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Categories:
molls, funny
Form: Clerihew