Black Feet
...There lived an old lady
On Widegulley Street
Who owned a black cat
With little white feet.
One Halloween night,
She formed a cute plan
To dip the cat’s feet
In black paint in a pan.
With...
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Categories:
scuttered, 10th grade, cat, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Brahms and Liszt
...Happy. Genial. Merry. Jolly
Blottoed, blasted, etched and blitzed
Mellow, foggy, hazy, squiffy
Tipsy. Tiddly. Brahms and Liszt
Dazed, zombied, tanked-up, trollied
Ganted, gubbed, guttered...
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Categories:
scuttered, drink,
Form: List
Robbing the Nest
...I had survived how many summers? Five?
Six? 'til, self-taught, I learned at last
of terror that lurks in situations
which those I trust (myself included)
would swear offer only perfect safety...
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Categories:
scuttered, childhood, education, family, life,
Form: Narrative