Short Heavy Duty Poems

we are birds of chaotic cities
our screams are our crowing
we have been in pain forever
our heavy-duty wheel

we are the ruins of the Lost Continent...

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Moral decay 
Night nurses prey or pay 
Dressed in white or gray 
Black and dark night fay 
Freezing hot they fey 
Heavy duty they lay 
Gone to make hay 
While sun slay...

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Oh, a mangy little doggie went galumphing down the street
And as his luck would have it he just happened there to meet
A warden with a wagon and a heavy-duty net
And he nabbed the rabid mongrel and he took him to the vet....

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He wears that thick black belt
but that doesn't make him a man.

He does heavy duty work but
he never goes, is he a man?

He is tough and talks a lot of trash,
does that make him a man?

He provides,utilizes,and compromises,
with his child and keeps child from going
through denial,come to think of it,he's a
                  man now....

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A smile that proves I’m good but a frown so bad,
No backpack on my shoulder but my heart to drag,
Long gone from the scene of the crime without a tag,
Over seen as dangerous just because my Levi jean’s sag,
Carrying the sorrows in my mind with a heavy duty plastic bag,
No surrender against the world so throw away the white flag,
Whipping the sweat off my forehead with a torn rag,
No gossip but little birdies do brag....

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Bitumen on the copper plate covers it entirely,evenly.
With a needle,she draws her picture,the point of the 
needle revealing the raw copper underneath.
This raw copper is the part that is eaten by the nitric
acid. Now,she must concentrate on the drawing,bearing in
mind the final print will be the reverse of the image she
is rendering while she carefully draws the image.
Wearing a face-mask,apron + two pairs of heavy duty gloves,
her sihouette approaches the prepared nitric chamber.....

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