Rubes Poems - Poems about Rubes

...These are villanelles by Michael R. Burch and and villanelle-like poems... Villanelle: Trump’s Retribution Resolution by Michael R. Burch My New Year’s resolution? I require your money and ......

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...It was the trophy hunt that played you out In deafening degrees, This video-invention of yourself revealed – A theatrical display that formed the day, A message of power, the plug-and-play Of ......

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...Mating Calls, or, Purdy Please! Limericks by Michael R. Burch 1. Nine-thirty? Feeling flirty (and, indeed, a trifle dirty), I decided to ring prudish Eleanor Purdy ... When I rang her to bang ......

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...They gathered in Jerusalem; Together, they would pray. They huddled in the upper room And waited for the Day. It happened at the Feast of Weeks, When Pentecost arrived; A sound like mighty ru......

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... Listen to the chumps, listen to the rubes, screaming that democracy is going down the tubes But every wise guy knows when the fix is in To put all their money down on the one who ha......

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...Limericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine: There was a lewd whore from Nantucket ......

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...As a person of lay, I do watch in dismay. All these government rubes, look like fools on our tubes. Playing silly games, as you try and bring the shame, upon this President Trump voted in by......

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...Little Miss Sure Shot Gains A Namesake Rhinestones and rawhide Prancing horses and the dream Of the Old Wild West; Dazzling the Old World crowd: 6 shots through a card tossed in the air, Ash ......

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... Moe Larry Curly Shep Joe This Three-Fifth Stooges moron quartet are brain-slow slugs you don’t wanna IQ know Just sitting on a milk crate, waiting outside of the MGM studio ......

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...OLE SCRATCH’S BEST WHET DREAM By Roy Merritt The devil he likes the city But he likes the country too The devil he’s likes them city folk But he really loves them rubes The denizens of the......

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... Listen to the chumps, listen to the rubes, screaming that democracy is going down the tubes But every wise guy knows when the fix is in To put all their money down on the one who ha......

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...The sun illumes a land in precarious peace, There was a time when heroes walked with ease, But now, complacency reigns shamelessly, And the distracted people take weal for granted. The decayi......

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...The day was brilliant--Sol spreading diamonds in the sky-- When Kathleen and her father faced the slope, He with trepidation, she with hope. They scanned the rise and watched like country rube......

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...Skagway, Alaska in the late 1890s was sure a rowdy place alright! It was seethin' with humanity a-raisin' hell all through the day and night! 'Twas the gateway to Chilkoot Pass beyond which lay Klond......

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...I see deeply;far behind the mask You show to others.The facets of a brilliant mind , You hide from Rubes and Lovers.An Eclipse of Your own contrivance,crafted skillfully so sweet and cunning.Your sta......

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