Short Off And Running Poems

This is a recording titled “Lies”.
It is off and running, and aiming for the skies.
It has a sound many consider cool.
However, it’s not from those boys from Liverpool.
This song is as American as apple pie.
These boys have a hit with their first try.
This group is known as the “Knickerbockers” by name.
With this hit, they will achieve fame.
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Summer began in a small country home;
forest's shadow and fields a dog can roam.

A kiss of radiant warmth lay this day,
off wild running and chasing in gay play.

Like other children we trifling quibble,
over childish senseless art we scribble.

QUIBBLE over who's going to be first,
QUIBBLE who's acting like the very worst.

Though harmless quibble with one another
before twilight falls, still love each other....

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I bought a pair of
off-brand running shoes today.

The impoverished man who made them, the man who birthed them sole to tongue in
some third-world hellhole slept like a baby that night after sewing
steadfast at machine no. 21 all day and into the night.
He was too
tired to make love to his young wife and
she was ovulating.

I am become fate,
decider, a 
two dollar bathroom-machine rubber. 
I have become Hadrian's latex wall, and
I have changed the course of history....

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