Short Gypped Poems

2025’s manuscript
Tips off the rip-offs as we’re gypped!
When oligarchs die
They'll not greed deny
But flip us the bird from their crypt...

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Gypped by the sea, the tossing
yanked a breath out, carelessly ~
Propped on a cliff edge, a deep
surge, swept over the hopeless ~
Escape came from birthed love:
A Nymphean with eyes of aqua ~


(11/2/2020)...

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How can it be, dear
    Halloween's drawing near

  Thanksgiving then
    will be just round the bend

  Perhaps Labor Day we skipped
    or out of July fourth were gypped

  All I know is 2021's mistletoe
    is still atop our hearth all aglow...

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Everytime I think about you, 
It's like my brain is under a vicegrip
Every scream I echo for you, 
It's like my voice will never slip
Every break I feel for you,
It's like my life was suddenly gypped.

Everytime I feel this way,
No matter what the day.
I will always lay,
and hope the pain will go away....

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I use to be too hip through I was the captain of the ship, well equipped.

Until I had one too many toots, one too many nips, I tripped then flipped the script I had to abandon ship.

Now ain't that a blip, when you start taking toots and taking nips once the get a grip, it becomes a dictator ship and all you get is gypped.

So take a tip, when you're trying to be too hip, you'll just wind up a drip with your face in the dip....

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