Clowning Around
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If I owned a circus
for you I'd play the clown
(Do jugglers ever tire of throwing up?
Only when they're sick of it.)
or if I had a rickshaw
I could run you round the town
if I were la...
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Categories:
proprietor, dream, drink, food, funny
Form: Rhyme
The poor bricks workers
...I beheld them on the hottest summer of May, Are they bonded labours who lived in shanties?, Yes,they were the pitiless kiln proprietor's prey , And they were f...
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Categories:
proprietor, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Too Stoned to Care, circa 1969
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Too stoned to care
wild eyes and hair
My friend and I dare
to order four pizzas
Where are your friends
the manager inquired
Oh, they’ll be here in a bit
o...
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Categories:
proprietor, education, food, fun, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again updated
...Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated
Steely Dan sing queen (me)
outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary
after Grahame Wood
determined to meet
the evolving needs of the communi...
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Categories:
proprietor, america, anger, anniversary, april,
Form: Rhyme
Dancing Mad
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I
Standing in a glass cube
As rain falls all around
The fate of the world
Is up for sale
Valkyries burst like bombs
As the forces of evil push us down
Lightning lances across the sky
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Categories:
proprietor, conflict, imagination, meaningful, mythology,
Form: Free verse
his touch
...they stopped for a few seconds at her favorite place
A used bookstore like no other
the proprietor watched the gorgeous couple.
Thrilled that Madeline had found a handsome beau...
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Categories:
proprietor, men,
Form: Free verse
The Whisperer
...I like a good French joke, when you listen to it, it makes you want to jump and shout, I like a good French joke; I am full up to my mouth. I like the French accent and the romantic gesture it has at...
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Categories:
proprietor, business, community, confidence, courage,
Form: Prose
Lady Dragonfly
..."Love weaves a mysterious magic spell"
Lady Dragonfly
Masculine and prickly, the proprietor of a gambling house,
Wispy wings finesse her dress, its translucence will arouse
A Dita ...
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Categories:
proprietor, analogy, character,
Form: Rhyme
Deception In Soup Creek
...Deception In Soup Creek
There once was a town called Soup Creek amiable and quaint
Filled with all these characters, a perfect picture they'd paint
It was founded to protect the innocent
Where ...
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Categories:
proprietor, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Essentially Ether
...The twisting of fate
O' these mortal coils,
When shall they learn?
Never is too soon.
It is that which is possessed,
From where power is gleamed.
So that those who have not
Shall remain to be ...
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Categories:
proprietor, culture, dark, fate, fear,
Form: Free verse
Captain Kuni-Lemel Graduate Strikes Again
...Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again
Even when iron not red hot,
I implement non customary quarks
regarding foreigner rather cold as ice
namely delinquent outsize credit card debt
mand...
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Categories:
proprietor, adventure, age, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Add Candy Canes
...little buck would have been more formidable without the head gear
where do you suppose he found that? the guests asked each other
he’s a lodge favorite, the proprietor replied. We have a relationsh...
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Categories:
proprietor, animal,
Form: Free verse
A Giraffe In a Space Rocket
...I took a donkey
Over the border from
Nepal into India
In Calcutta
I had tea
When the hotel
Proprietor after checking out
Asked; me 'Any tips?'
I misunderstood & said
'No need.'...
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Categories:
proprietor, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse
Luck Or Something Else
...I have for many years had a reputation for being Tinpot Lucky,
Take this Tuesday for Instance,
I was walking down past the Lawnmower shop,
Where I bought my Wood chipper,
Should I stop in and an...
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Categories:
proprietor, age, appreciation, baptism, celebration,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
We Poets Are Waiting For the Moonset
...we poets are waiting for the moonset
sitting on my balcony, evolutions shamans
now wandering the beach
we are solving every social ill
while walking Blake's path of excess
to some palace of wis...
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Categories:
proprietor, moving on,
Form: Free verse
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