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Spicy Leaves the Carnival


So long, Spicy ... 
sho’ hate to see you go
You were the best comic relief in the PT carnival
Prez Trump sez he don’t need you no mo’
So you publicly resigned 
	 after getting the private heave-ho
So long, Spicy ... 
it sho’ was fun having you around
The way you spun those alternative facts
		    was so crazy clumsy cool
How you and Kellyanne would go on the attack,
then backtrack from the shark press pool
Y’all were some kinda funny, 
reverse moon-walking laughingstock fools 
Now Kooky Kellyanne is still here, and you’re gone — 
that just ain’t right, it’s so wrong
So long, Spicy ... 
I’m gonna play another
Saturday Night Live sad, satirical song
Me and the ghetto gang is sho’ gonna miss you
		when you’re gone
(Mr. Robin Harris and BeBe kids will too)
But before you leave,
do me a favor willya please ...
tip your jilted jester cap
		       to the smiling PT freak show,
and give a dour derriere frown,
to the Inepters running this clown carnival


Details | Rhyme |

The Reluctant Sailor

I once was a farmer
 I worked the land
I reaped the corn 
With a scythe in my hand

I ploughed my furrow
I sowed my seed 
I grew my crops
My family to feed

One day hot and thirsty 
With the sun going down
I went for to drink
At the alehouse in town

As I was a drinking
There at the Inn
Without any warning 
The press gang came in

So I was taken 
I was taken so fast
And told that my future 
Was before the mast

So in my fields 
I no longer plough 
Instead the wide ocean 
I must plough now

From hauling on ropes 
My hands are all torn
Sometimes I wish
I had never been born

Our captains a hard man
If one of us fails
He'll have us flogged
With a cat o' nine tails

When I climb the rigging
I oft times will find
I think of the family 
That I left behind

One day I'll jump ship
And I'll stay on shore
I'll serve the Kings navy
Never no more

I'll return to my loved ones
I'll go back to the land
Once more I will reap 
With my scythe in my hand

I've sailed the wide oceans
Seen Paris and Rome
But nothing compares
With my humble home
Details | Lyric |

The Reluctant Sailor

I once was a farmer
I worked the land
I reaped the corn 
With a scythe in my hand

I ploughed my furrow
I sowed my seed 
I grew my crops
My family to feed

One day hot and thirsty 
With the sun going down
I went for to drink
At the alehouse in town

As I was a drinking
There at the Inn
Without any warning 
The press gang came in

So I was taken 
I was taken so fast
And told that my future 
Was before the mast

So in my fields 
I no longer plough 
Instead the wide ocean 
I must plough now

From hauling on ropes 
My hands are all torn
Sometimes I wish
I had never been born

Our captains a hard man
If one of us fails
He'll have us flogged
With a cat o' nine tails
                
When I climb the rigging
I oft times will find
I think of the family 
That I left behind

One day I'll jump ship
And I'll stay on shore
I'll serve the Kings navy
Never no more

I'll return to my loved ones
I'll go back to the land
Once more I will reap 
With my scythe in my hand

I've sailed the wide oceans
Seen Paris and Rome
But nothing compares
With my humble home


Denis Briggs
Details | Narrative |

Hard Life

Cutting stones for building blocks doesn't
bring the whole food at the table. Playing
betting games force them to sell their
clothes and shoes. Saving money becomes
harder than collecting drops of rain during
drought.

Their children toil in the farms and streets,
because they have no school fees;
their daughters end up as pleasure toys
for the rich, for they don't have enough money
to buy sanitary pads and maintaining beauty;
their sons become easy prey for politicians 
who pay a few hundreds for causing chaos
to their opponents.....

Gods' eyes shy away from their blessings,
forcing them to turn from lawful men
to gang-bangs, hiding around streets
and lavish estates. Frustration sometimes
force them to press the trigger,
as they scoop out handbags, briefcases,
and pockets.

Their lives are sustained for a while in the midst
of inflation and higher house rents. Their children
go back to school, and food becomes more abundant
at the dining table. Debts are also paid.

Soon, the arms of the law stretch to their homesteads,
and put them in handcuffs. Their wives and children
watch in despair. The sole providers are sent in jail,
to serve decades or life sentences.

Hard life is all they know from outside or inside the prison bars.....
Details | Bio |

Err Spray


Little Peep Boo
gonna give a ghost face
sneak peek preview
And the Casper Whine burgs
ain’t gon like
the skeleton keyhole truth

We be thee former chain gang,
(y’all know us)
the Menace to Society butt pang

Yeah, klan bruh ... we got the lynch spirit
hanging broken limb tough
Steal it seems,
the Cottonmouth Man (with the head-cracking Cain)
ain’t beat us down enough

Spitting viper shade
is the err spray
that the head cracker love

Hissing hate, forged link made,
is the money play
When push comes to shove

Little Peep Boo
ain’t trying to 
subliminally scare you
So take a commercial break,
if your moral bowels 
have to drop a few

Just remember to press
the refresh button
When you spray the err

Steal it won’t 
conscience clearly absolve you
of the awful things you shackled allowed
sphincter lips to enamel do  do

That’s the hard truth of it — 

Little spook me 
is gonna freely grin spit
shine on some shuffling shoes

Let the sunset crimson reflection
of those mourning blue hues 
fall on pale faces
that darkly spread bad news

Lizard skin boots,
wearing dandruff suits,
are croc dropping flaky truth

Spitting viper shade
is the err spray
making follycle souls uncouth

Little Peep Boo
ain’t sunburn afraid to
nappy head bleating heart tell you:
There’s a rug on fire,
and it’s spreading to the roof

Seems the err spray can 
of Medusa worms
just wasn’t self-explode proof


Details | Rhyme |

John Tunstall and the Kid

The Kid had been arrested along with The Boys and Jesse Evans.
All were being charged with cattle rustling.
It was John Tunstall's livestock that had been stolen,
and he intended to press charges against all of them,
until he happened to see William H Bonney.
He seemed so out of place with this gang of ruthless thieves.
Mr Tunstall then spoke with the Kid privately.
"I will drop all charges against you for your testimony,
that my livestock was stolen by this gang of thieves,
afterward you're welcome to come and work for me.
Room and board will be absolutely free,
and you will earn a decent salary honestly."
Billy Bonney readily agreed
and so John Tunstall had the Kid released.
When they arrived at Tunstall's home he had a gift for the Kid,
a rifle and a horse complete with  saddle gear and blanket.
This unexpectedly brought tears to the Kid's eyes.
"What's wrong son?" Mr Tunstall asked surprised.
"Nobody," said the Kid, "has ever given me anything in my life."
John Tunstall would become Billy's mentor.
John wrote home to his family the following in a letter,
"That kid never ceases to amaze me.
There isn't anything in the world he won't do to try and impress me.
I'm going to make one hell of a man out of that kid one day,"
but tragically John Tunstall got blown away,
by the ruthless monopolizing competition.
Partners Lawrence Murphy and Jimmy Dolan 
sent a merciless gang of corrupt lawmen
to John Tunstall's ranch and murdered him.
Billy's second chance for a better life was no more.
John Tunstall's murder ignited The Lincoln County War.
Details | Dramatic Monologue |

If Ever I Had a Country : Lviii and Lix

IF ever I had a country : LVIII - LIX

			LVIII

IF ever I had a fantasy country
And if ever I were left to choose a country existing in reality
I'd certainly opt for a country not run by one who studied philosophy
For the simple reason you can blame any other kind of dope for sheer hypocrisy
For not having studied philosophy and pretending to be very democracy savvy
Especially when the victims* of the country's secret services can hit back at the ruling party
That is, if ever I were left to choose a non-hypocritical country existing in reality
And even if I never ever had no country (not) up to my fancy

Note : * It's a published fact that a French writer and literary anchor on French TV (whom I once met, in 1974, selling his self-published book in the streets of the Latin Quarter) never slept in the same bed for fourteen months for the late President François Mitterrand had ordered the secret services to snuff this son of an Admiral out. His " crime d'Etat " happened to be a manuscript he authored on the President's daughter whose mother was his mistress while in office. The " crime " however was expunged when the author in the presence of TV cameras burnt the manuscript at the portals of the Elysée Presidential Palace.

				LIX

IF ever I had a phantasmagorical country
And if ever I were left to choose a country existing in reality
I'd certainly not opt for a country where the S.S. and the Police drug gang-rape and press-gang the mother of your infant son with impugnity
Nor opt for a so-called champion human rights country which hinders your every step and plunges you into solipsistic ignominy
Keeps you embroiled in litigation instituted managed and obstructed by near-sighted authority
While it siphons and floods your tiny ground-floor apartment with the precious toilet refuse of fourteen storeys of family
That is, if ever I were left to choose a country existing in reality
And even if I never ever had no country to fancy

© T. Wignesan - Paris, August 17, 2018
Details | Rhyme |

A Growing Menagerie of Stuffed Animals and Beanie Babies

A (growing) menagerie of stuffed animals And Beanie Babies

The following doth constitute
combination of fact and fiction
unfortunately not sentences
referencing overactive spousal glute
though sphincter roaring
could muscle us into ample loot
(after wife explodes open bank vault)
versus ass spire ring writer root
ting to live nsync ecologically
viz hypothetical analogous member 
of indigenous people named Yakut
living in scattered settlements in northern Siberia.

Impossible mission to clear space on the bed,
when yours truly feels dead
tired, nothing does magic trick than position fathead
of mine (me noggin actually small and roundish)
with brow emblematic of being highbred,
cuz sleeping quarters
overrun By Teddy Bears And Beanie Babies.

Twas the bright idea of zee missus aye air
and I dedicate this poem
yes tis correct, if ewe bare
lee remember this mister
did formerly she-push-lee duck clear
addressed said spouse
"my little buttock blaster” endear

ring pet name applied for obvious reasons,
(her posterior end pulsates with putrid plume),
and before she begat two 'ere
rip press ably lovely daughters),
anyway thee wife I fear
to publicize contracted a benign
strain sans incurable glare

ring house cleaning malady,
(thus far no unpronounceable hair
raising name affixed
to non contagious ill, nonetheless
accursed conditioned fanatically
jumpstarting organizing unkempt apartment,
whereby to keep tear filling 
misery drowning ocean 
of sorrows distant at bay,
scrubbing stubborn stains
from clothes, dishes,
and gamut of hibernating
Ursine horde (née motley crue)

that come breathing alive
Nsync with Beastie Boys bay
sic City Rollers Culture Clubbing babes
upon first spring day
engrossed in this, that,
or some other sweeping floor foray
(analogously to Velveteen Rabbit)
shedding matted "faux" fur gray
winter coat when warmer temperatures arrive,
where humongous fur clumps would lay
comprising sudden empty raft

of shelf space minus a may
zing globules, oh...lemme get on track,
regarding poetic melee,
whence frenzied fever "cleaning bug" née
major virus afflicting wife,
would necessitate impossible task
whereby strapping former
feisty Norwegian farm gal
in straight jacket indeed livingsocial

would be no game to play
boot tiring and cruel task of her life Yukon say
24/7 daily challenge devious skullduggery
Smokey and the Bandits
an imp posse sub bill
outlaw gang, who lived like
Aristo curr Rats along the quay,
which unpredictable time frame

thine remaining lifetime sans wife oy vey
would frank lee zap
every last oomph of mine
if able twin door remaining with spouse,
meanwhile 'till she obliviously
plucks persistent sprouting 
stranded silver follicle
tiller broad forehead resembles
a minuscule tarmac way.
Details | Rhyme |

Wergle Flomp Good Humor 2023

Wergle Flomp Good Humor 2023

The following constitutes a rather 
twisted as a pretzel SUBTITLE:

I dash with my jiggling boobs in an attempt to escape... 
being overrun by teddy bears and beanie babies
while carrying out heavy duty spring cleaning.

Twas the bright idea of zee missus aye air
and dedicate this poem
(yes tis correct, if you bare
lee remember this mister
did formerly she push lee duck clear
addressed said spouse
"my little buttock blaster” endear
ring - for obvious reasons,
and before she begat two 'ere
rip press ably lovely daughters),

anyway thee wife I fear
to publicize contracted a benign
strain sans incurable glare
ring housecleaning malady;
thus far no unpronounceable hair
raising name affixed
to non contagious condition, nevertheless
accursed malady,
whereby to keep her
from auctioning me on eBay,
I squarely hide in root cellar.

She frenziedly scrubbing stubborn stains
from clothes, dishes,
and gamut of hibernating
Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus 
horde (nee motley crue)
entrapping scampering dust bunnies
that come breathing alive
nsync with beastie boy
city rollers culture clubbing babes
upon first spring day
engrossed in this, that,

or some other sweeping floor foray
(analogously to Velveteen Rabbit)
shedding fifty shades of gray
winter coat when warmer temperatures arrive,
where humongous fur clumps would lay
comprising sudden empty raft
of shelf space minus a may
zing globules, oh...lemme get on track,
whence frenzied fever 
"cleaning bug" nee
major virus afflicting wife,   

would necessitate impossible task
strapping former feisty Norwegian farm gal
in straight jacket livingsocial every
would be no game to play
24/7 daily challenge devious skullduggery 
Smokey and the Bandits 
an imp posse sub bill
outlaw gang, who lived 
like Aristo curr Rats along the quay,     
which unpredictable timeframe

boot tiring and cruel task 
of her life Yukon say
thine remaining lifetime, 
that's my wife oye vey
would frank lee zapping
every last oomph of mine
if able twin door remaining with spouse
meanwhile 'till she obviously
plucks persistent sprouting stranded follicle
tiller broad forehead resembles
a minuscule tarmac way.

Though far fetched, not impossible 
for me and Joe Six
Pack to become one and the same
since a concerned counterpart 
contributes to the mix
cuz, she waves a scolding gold finger 
dying with craven craving for sweet licks
to grace tastebuds longing 
to savor and dissolve sucrose
in any one of the natural 
or synthesized combinations
in an effort whose memory 
of a washboard tummy 
doth hunger for youth afflicts

recent embarkation since maintaining a diet 
of exercise no more pesky heeding "yo dude"   
(you look like a lady), 
the inner fitness maven against 
temptation of high caloric junk food 
and nightly snack king 
on a flexible fitness routine, 
this lxiv aged body electric feels good
these myopic eyes and 
well-calibrated hands measure less dense hood- 

winking bosom, that if I feigned being 
a "bared naked lady" - 
asper this chest lewd
city in reference to "man boobs" 
that seemed to materialize overnight 
now appear to decrease as well 
that unwanted "love handle, 
this chap more inclined 
tubby in a greater mood 
to parade around 

this non-crowded house shirtless 
AND definitely NOT in public, 
BUT no weigh Jose 
would this generic guy go completely nude
cuz being self-consciousness of my physique 
might prompt outsiders 
to consider me a prude
and even during closed bedroom door 
sexual exploits deter me tibia rude
fellow (with average go daddy long legs) 

and my dangling dipstick smallish 
(concluding biology screwed)
a chap worthy tube he more endowed,
though gratitude proffered
to same divine cosmic consciousness
but as the year's pile up appreciation 
of functional faculties alter matts' at tee 'tude
accepting physical characteristics 
more or less static 
hoe ping believe mass elf ya wood.
Details | Rhyme |

Please Help Yarn Hexed Door Neighbor

Please help yarn hexed door neighbor...

Yours truly pinned down by invisible 
vestiges of coronavirus and
getting attacked from angry plague 
of buttons, plus huge spools of yarn
grossly mistook me for human sock 
to seal and line with something foreign
sewing lips impossible mission 
even to force out 
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
(even ventriloquist like) argh gosh darn
smarting with horse sense
Equus caballus hilariously snorting 
cuz door left ajar 
allowing, enabling, and 
providing exit from out the barn.
 
H. Ty Warner's 
ingenious imaginative creations
(a craze that swept America circa
second half of ninety nineties -
and furious at their worthlessness today)
hungry carnivorous, ferocious, 
insidious, ludicrous, opprobrious... 
anything but innocent looking playthings, 
where sharp hairs 

bristle, kindle, and ruffle 
and upper and lower sharp teeth engage
abandoned beanie baby brood 
massive collections spouse accrued,
when said toys all the rage
uttered courtesy buttoned down sage
at auction in two thousand twenty two
might look as small fortune 
worth a few thousand dollars
no matter adamantly refuse 
being sold to highest bidder. 

Beanie Babies from exclusive events, 
the Original Nine designs, 
first-generation releases, 
and even toys with tag errors 
can fetch a pretty penny 
in the collector's market.

Overrun livingsocial hotmail
by teddy bears and beanie babies
bright idea of zee missus aye air
without any last thread bare
bequeathing, dedicating, forwarding  
aforementioned merchandise 
to whomever subtly nods head so beware 
(yes if you barely
shake noggin) that automatically translates
as goodies non-negotiably sold to thee

signed, sealed and delivered 
courtesy wordsmith 
duck quacking Doctor Demento, 
who forewarns patrons to clear
out and vacate premises asap
lest malingerers experience testament 
becoming subjected to she/her
addressed as gaseous spouse 
id est "my little buttock blaster” dear
surviving kin who ranks  
holy smokes - for obvious reasons, 

and before she begat two 'ere
rip press ably lovely daughters), 
anyway thee wife I fear
to publicize, she contracted 
benign strain sans incurable glare
to this knit wit – if anyone kin hear
ring house cleaning malady, 
thus far no unpronounceable hair
who offers chance to jeer
wag middle finger quite visibly near

heck – even call 
guardian angel on wing and prayer
or rumplestiltskin with tiny 
ear splitting flatulence sounding rear
help rescue me, 
who will button his lips I swear
with duct tape and mouth sealed 
with ropy hemp 
painstakingly made courtesy 
“I hate boys” under wear
now quick travel back 
in time from this year.

Come breathe with Justin, 
he sports nuff timber alive 
analogous rock of Gibraltar to belay 
lake nsync with Beastie Boys 
viz Bay City Rollers Culture 
Clubbing babes upon spring day
engrossed in this, that, 
or some other sweeping floor foray
(linkedin to Velveteen Rabbit) 
shedding gun metal gray
filled stack of hay

winter coat when 
warmer temperatures arrive, 
where humongous fur clumps lay
comprising sudden empty raft 
of shelf space minus a may
which event no picnic in may
nor pleasant as per needled 
zing globules, oh...
lemme get on track,
whence frenzied fever 
"cleaning bug" nee
major virus afflicting wife 

necessitates impossible task
strapping former bachelorette 
feisty Norwegian farm gal
straight laced as a yellowjacket 
livingsocial within droning hive, 
be game to play
24/7 challenged, 
I unsuspectingly quickly sink oye
which nearest prey
happened to be yours truly, 
destined to get submerged 

as black lagoon creatures’ pray
trending and feigning solution 
to null solution e quay
I hired devious skullduggery
Smokey and Bandits), 
an imp posse sub bill
outlaw gang), who lived lichen 
Aristo cur Rat along the quay
boot tiring and cruel task 
of her life Yukon say
shun didst tax patience for today

doth not wish 
to witness condemned self 
to uber fifth dimension
housing after lives like tiny Tim 
plays ukulele, where eye espy 
which unpredictable timeframe remaining 
lifetime sans wife oy vey
would frank lee zap 
every last oomph of mine
if able to remain with spouse 
meanwhile she obliviously

proverbially plucks persistently 
sprouting stranded follicles
tiller broad forehead resembles 
a minuscule tarmac way
Kantian fractal facial expressions 
where disembodied spirits
sup on diet of worms and whey
whose effervescent essence 
invisible as an x-ray
sewing seeds of life 
and white lily repeated onslaught 
with buttons and yarn ah feign YAY.

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