Doris
...Doris was quick-thinking
quick-acting, clever, and shrewd
But pointedly polite and polished
Never abrupt or rude
Her knowledge of psychology helped her get by with much
Fooling relatives, acqu...
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Categories:
outmaneuvered, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Are We Too Late - America's Plight
...How did we get to where we are,
America - the one undimming shining star,
A land of freedom, of unbounded pride
Where no one needed run and hide
For their religion or mere thought,
Democracy - t...
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Categories:
outmaneuvered, addiction, anger, drug, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Easy Mark
...She knew they
were easy marks midst
her beguiling cunning
had it in spades,
they thought they had
the better hand,
stacked the deck in their wager,
til she bet them all
under the round table
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Categories:
outmaneuvered, allegory, hyperbole, satire,
Form: Carpe Diem
General Lee
...“Let us cross the river and rest in the shade of trees”
Converse like gentlemen, with our bayonets at ease
We were once brothers, declaring independence for these lands
Now we murder one another,...
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Categories:
outmaneuvered, black african american, history,
Form: Couplet