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Premium Member A Lady from Shanghai
A young lady from Shanghai was arrested not knowing why. “Your singing,” officials explained, “too high; neighbors complained.” At once she told the government she had a spheech impediment, and was only practiching to shing but denied she shang high. ...

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Categories: shanghai, word play,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Ladies From Shanghai: COMPLETE
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A rare good sou-L at Mote-L Six who smel-Led different. ...

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Categories: shanghai, analogy,
Form: Than-Bauk



Premium Member Ladies From Shanghai VIIII
I had to lo-Ok, saw, I kn-Ow her, We're fr-Om Shanghai....

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Categories: shanghai, analogy,
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Premium Member Ladies From Shanghai VIII
Lady beh-Ind said out s-Ide Where'd, you f-Ind it! Well?d....

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Categories: shanghai, analogy,
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Premium Member Ladies From Shanghai VII
When we avrr-Ived I'm surpr-Ised, that's her, sm-Iling there....

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Premium Member Lady From Shanghai VI
Story she h-Ad was a b-Ag like purse A-nd not hers...

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Categories: shanghai, analogy,
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Premium Member Lady From Shanghai V
Gave same addres-S like the la-St cab ride S-aid. Same spot....

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Premium Member Lady From Shanghai IV
IV)Next I had s-Ort self-ctr-Olled and my O-h fresh bills...

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Premium Member Lady From Shanghai III
I dropped her O-ff someplace d-Owntown I kn-Ow about ...

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Premium Member Lady From Shanghai II
Then she tell m-E somebo-Dy took her P-ink wallet....

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Premium Member Lady From Shanghai I
A rare good sou-L at Mote-L Six who smel-Led different...

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Premium Member Shanghai Carpenter
There was a carpenter in Shanghai Who hanging from a roof beam so high When he grabbed a nail, He let out a yell Everyone thought he would surely die....

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Categories: shanghai, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Shanghai, a Perspective
A Shanghai building Reflecting on the water Soothing strings music...

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Categories: shanghai, art, autumn, earth day,
Form: Haiku
Shanghai Monk
I am in the middle of meditation in lotus position I am the reason for you to leave me Solitude the big opera of God a poets reward You are the unspoken complicated words dancing far away only dust and smoke (Evolution pollution) is on the way and remembers Big destiny waves no one here to see now what I feel I am a Shanghai monk in orange pajamas standing in the air...

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Categories: shanghai, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Shanghai Sonnet
Congealed upon the banks of this tamed dragon sprawl stacks of crude buildings. Concrete covers all but two glassy kings, thick smoggy gusts give them a grimy kiss. Insipid pillars choke sunlight, endless roads incise the very earth, wings of apartments cram into ev’rything, ev’rywhere stacks upon stacks of units. Herein lies the future, our dystopia has arrived through the hazy looking glass. Perhaps a...

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Categories: shanghai, hope, life, people, places,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

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