Short Dudgeon Poems

She slapped my face and walked out
And said she’d never come back.
She’d never cross the threshold again
So there; and that was that.

But she’ll return, I have no doubt,
Though she said she’d never come back,
Just as soon as it registers in her brain
That, tonight, we were in her flat.

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Donald, the dud of a dude has dudgeon, Denise told me.
dungeon? I asked
she shook her head ‘no”
Dudgeon

I looked it up
Dudgeon
Ill humor
That said a lot

probably means
we will never be friends
because I have dusted the negative Neds
off of my sandals

and it feels terrific
to be free of all that naysaying
and negativity...

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What have I done?
To be treated like dirt in your eyes.
Always under the gun.
Constantly being vandalized.
Forever on the run.

Run Race Horse Run
The shows only just begun.
What goods a race horse that's not any fun?
Show me your teeth like a good one.

You want to tame me,
But I was born to be wild and free.
Not in a dudgeon....

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