My lost cousin
...I sat on a chair completely nervous
to know where I would do my youth service.
Then came the rudest shock of my whole life,
I'd have to go up north where strifes were rife.
I didn't even try to...
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Categories:
rudest, angst, anxiety, cousin, family,
Form: Rhyme
rudest guest ever
...are those Tiffany lamps?
the new neighbor asks me, staring at my stuff.
I have no idea, but I like them, I reply.
Were they expensive? She asks.
Rudest guest ever....
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Categories:
rudest, life,
Form: Light Verse
A Car To a Mechanic
...These days good cars oddly somersault,
So this jeep you keep ridding of fault
Big cash you shall be getting plus malt;
Journey time I might speed catapult;
Now,alive and kicking,next in vault...
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Categories:
rudest, care, cry, devotion, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
What They Do In Theos Lodge
...That’s’ what they do in Theo’s lodge:
All sorts of wrong papers forge;
There every nosing cop dodge,
Who’d rogues from hideouts disgorge…
In Theo’s lodge would hoodlums surge,
Sweet crime at ...
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Categories:
rudest, allusion, corruption, people, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
Contrarian Veterinarian
...In Encino there's a veterinarian
who is the Valleys rudest contrarian
He'll insult a shy tabby
Greet a pug: Hey there, flabby!
But at home, he's a kind Presbyterian
5/17/22...
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Categories:
rudest, humor,
Form: Limerick
From a Childless Father
...None rankle me like a parent so blind,
he or she that see what they choose to see.
O readers, I beg of that rudest kind
must they breed so damn prolifically?
A time to be seen, a time to ...
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Categories:
rudest, children, parents,
Form: Sonnet
Oldtown
...Tall and narrow,
the houses stand,
wall against wall,
hunched together
on the edge of the
cobbled street,
as if armed against
the unknown.
Tiny balconies
Where laundry
Used hang on railin...
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Categories:
rudest, change, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Rudest Awakening
...The dead are tired,
the living go on
Breathless and timeless,
all energy gone
The dead left to wander,
betwixt and between
Finality’s heartbreak
—the end of the dream
(Philadelphia Ro...
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Categories:
rudest, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
So Sad For Her Felt Bad For Her
...He thought it was a rude slight
The rudest one he’d had all night.
She had no idea he felt this way.
She was truly only trying to play.
Her sarcasm was not too bright.
She had shoved him away ...
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Categories:
rudest, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rondeau
New York City Resident
...I met the rudest librarian.
"I'd like a library card, "I said to him.
"You have to prove, "he said annoyed, "that you're a New York City resident."
I said, "No problem,"
then I stabbed him....
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Categories:
rudest, new york,
Form: Rhyme
It Happened Again
...At my doctor’s clinic, I again encountered “Bot1”;
nearly running over people in front of me.
It seemed to be coming towards me;
to its whims I’d nearly succumbed.
No, “excuse me...
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Categories:
rudest, angst, imagination, perspective, science,
Form: Free verse
Waiting
...Feet still ache and shoulders are sore,
From the labors this night that they bore.
And still, a smile must they show,
To those who come to this abode.
With diligence and steady hand,
Order...
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Categories:
rudest, appreciation, dedication, food, people,
Form: Rhyme
Rude Polly Parrot
...Rude Polly Parrot
Pretty Polly Parrot
likes saying naughty words
Pretty Polly Parrot is the
Rudest of all Birds
But should you ever wonder
Why Parrots are so bold
They only repeat master’s w...
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Categories:
rudest, bird, fun, nonsense, rude,
Form: Rhyme
Genghis Khan
...Ride, ride, ride thou figure from the East
In thy curse hath many a mother wept
On thy brow the furrows of distant steppes
Yield unto a steely mask of doom
Destruction follows in thy path and yet...
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Categories:
rudest, adventure, education, history, writing,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Akula
...AKULA
Mark and I caught the last plane from Ft. Lauderdale to New Orleans to escape Hurricane Andrew, leaving Akula ,our boat, tied up at Rolly Shipyard to face the wrath alone. The next few hell ...
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Categories:
rudest, adventure,
Form: Narrative
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