Short Jawing Poems

Is there a reason why all ballplayers spit
Can they get to the majors, if a spittoon they can't hit
Twenty paces while chawing
On tobaccy, while jawing
At the ump, methinks its likely tradition, I submit...

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Is there a reason why all ballplayers spit
Can they get to the majors, if a spittoon the can't hit
Twenty paces while chawing
On tabaccy while jawing
At the ump, methinks it's likely tradition I submit


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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I knew a guy who was raised by hippies,
he had never needed to undress a female with his eyes,
but he lost his enthusiasm for sex.
Every woman knows the art
of being covered and naked at the same time.
I used to do a lot of imaginative looking,
now I stand around jawing - just another old guy,
and women don't look at me at all....

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Did you hear that mumbling 
thousands of whispers
squeakers and lispers
shouting and grumbling
Filling the spaces
all corners filled in
multitude of races
talking and talking
Noise for noise sake
moving in damp wave
jawing without a break
cradle to grave
Was anything said
of any import
words loudly read
we're talking for sport
It's a cacophony of sound
with so little to say
forever talking
on repeat and replay...

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The bustling,hustling and bumping of humans 
Vehicular moves
An early hour rush
We the fools rushed
The ease of a fool
The slowest thing in the human cosmos
At the crossroads we stood,
O yes FMC !
Beating traffic rules is in our blood ,
Opposite GTB are images of Ochendos
A rickety railway smiling at the banks
Smokes of suya tempting 
The heavenlies
Does the heavenliest eat suya? 
Adjacent are jobless readers jaw jawing politics 
At the newspapers stand
Umuahia my Second Home...

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