Wake
...We placed a pine box casket on a sawhorse table.
There weren’t but little notice, did as best we able.
I watched the flowers wilting in the heat of August.
It seemed a shameful squander given what...
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Categories:
sawhorse, allegory, irony,
Form: Epitaph
Pin the Tail
...PIN THE TAIL
O’Haggard Hoarfrost, she plays winks,
rocks on a sawhorse, tweedle-dee drinks.
Mad Merrie O’Boyle slays lightning from nails —
dazed loony-toon, wears out his flannel ta...
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Categories:
sawhorse, humor,
Form: Couplet
Gembo Makes It Simple
...cussing bout
sumthang wrong
guess I better look into
getting it fixed
the problem comes with
instuctions
these intructions
are the jinx
cussing bout sumthang special
tired of crawling
on m...
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Categories:
sawhorse, adventure, celebrity, myth, science
Form: Ballad
Pauly Wally
...PaULY WALLY
THERE ONCE was A Carpenter
That fell off his saw sawhorse
Had a wife but she divorced him
Cause of the nails he left in the kitchen
He framed a wall but it fell
Only thing left wa...
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Categories:
sawhorse, celebrity, character,
Form: Limerick
Back To Canyon Country
...The sky is a lesser blue now,
but the same winter-knifing wind I remember
off the ridges, across alfalfa fields….
Just condos now, impervious to weather.
Cantering bareback on Molly –
saddle on its ...
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Categories:
sawhorse, childhood,
Form: Verse