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Premium Member Minor Surgery
Said he to she
  dismissively
It's only
  minor surgery

Said she to he
  lightheartedly
Give me the knife
  I'll play with your life...

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Categories: dismissively, health, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Hello--Goodbye


The heartbreaker says hello seductively--goodbye dismissively.


Date: December 20, 2018
Contest Title: One Liner--Hello and Goodbye 
Sponsor: Silent One               Placed 2nd

March 22, 2019, entered in Brian Strand's Late March 2019 Contest...

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Categories: dismissively, goodbye, heartbreak, hello,
Form: Monoku
An Elderly Gentleman Discovers Nirvana
Of course he had heard of Kurt Cobain,
had curled his lips dismissively,
equating rock music to Jurassic noise.
Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms
were all the B’s he needed for his hive.
The great American song book was his bible.
Yet and even,
when he listened to that ‘Never Mind’ album 
play list on YouTube, 
that gentleman, not much given to profanity,
said to himself:
‘Crap, I missed’....

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Categories: dismissively, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Top Old To Visit
My grandparents are too old to visit, the girl tells me.
I ask how old, and discover they are ten years younger than I am.
She laughs when I reveal this.
They are old people old, she insists.
Why don’t you get to know them? I suggest.
They are too old, she says, dismissively.
Not understanding the irrationality of it.
I am 68. They are 58 and 57. What am I missing?
They ACT old she says.
Oh.
Okay.
Now I get it....

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Categories: dismissively, age, america,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs