C2 O Grinning
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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