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Sawbuck Poems - Poems about Sawbuck


C2 O Grinning
... Capitol Hill lawmakers busy be sound byte spinning Graft siphon those sawbuck bills, so succubus sly Cheshire cat revenue takers, queeny crooked smile grinning Wink the incubus eye, ......

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Categories: sawbuck, corruption, dark, political, wisdom,
Form: Burlesque
Why Is Dixie Named Dixie
...The issue's not yet signed and sealed. Three cogent answers hold the field, and no-one knows which is the best. I'll set them out before you, lest the question go a-begging. ......

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Categories: sawbuck, history,
Form: Couplet



Just a Damned Old Used Guitar
...In the corner of a pawn shop, blanketed in dust stood a damned old used guitar; for a twenty, was a must. Walking out the door with it slung across my back I saw a young man with a sign, "Help m......

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Categories: sawbuck, absence, death, depression, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Starbuck's Day
...From my alarm's first beckoning until that first Venti Columbian at Starbuck's, I knew the day could be filled with stress. There was an endless Leadership Staff meeting where Hanrahan imposed hi......

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Categories: sawbuck, stress,
Form: Free verse
Spicy Bell Pepper
...Stop watching me with those derisory eyes sweet like bear claw spicy like a bell pepper give me back my barette I'm not letting my hair down' from cooties to copacetic my biggest disease jus l......

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Categories: sawbuck, abuse,
Form: Free verse



Struck
...I won't say I'm sorry I can't apologize when all the truth comes forth reflected in my eyes I won't keep you long you are much too wise as the truth hangs in the balance the mask doesn't cover......

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Categories: sawbuck, lost loveme, truth,
Form: Verse
Liberty Down
...To lonely sailors Lines of polyester, a sawbuck fare My mates, a little tea, my plight set Smokey guitars scream over bands of hair Cheap, watered bourbon, endless cigarette Round perch, wat......

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Categories: sawbuck, adventure, sea, social, work,
Form: Sonnet

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