Short Cut Back Poems

Illness,
Diagnosis,
Rush to emergency,
Prep the patient for surgery,
Cut back....

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There once was a monk with a wave
Who desired a head with a shave ...
      Well, the barber was such
      That she cut back too much
Thereby leaving his globus concave...

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The tree at the mall is right out front.
3 feet in; 4 feet out.
Been shortened for powerlines
and sparsened for rapists'.
It's branches cut back
where it's taxes placed it.
The tree at the mall is right out front....

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At the end of the summer
The heartbreak begins,
But, until then,
Get down with your sins

This sentence
Is long and blurred,
And the ending’s been cut back
By three simple words

I hate you
Has been omitted again
Or I love you was said
And that was the end...

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Praying to a god I hope to see
Trusting there is a pot of gold in the end
Opening paths for others to continue the trek

Stacks of bodies at crossroads
Eerie smiles, happy to have cut back a shrub

Sweat drenches my back as I walk paths barely carved
Looking into the forest where treasures may gleam
Where the only way to see the path is walk
And see how others have walked before
And where...

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There once was a cat who just sat
And he grew enormously fat.
We have cut back his feed
No mater how he may plead
For if not he'll die and that is that

There once was a woman who worked
All the time, and stress drove her berserk
She'd screech and she'd yell
At all those she knew well
Till in her house only gloom would lurk

There once was a girl who just wept
When she had free time she slept
Between woman and cat
She felt like a drowned rat
Till she watched as before trains she stepped...

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