Short Rig Poems

Haiku 61
	
	the neighbors arrive
	big rig diesel whumping
	our tiny trailer...

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Haiku 61 _ Version 2
	
	
	the neighbors arrive big rig diesel whumping our tiny trailer...

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Chanting from coast to coast
 the game is one man one vote
 …the rule is rig and roast...

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i used too
much baby
oil with the
lights turned
low but soft
music can 
be heard as 
Paul Simon
sings slip 
sliding
away...

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I blew a dollar on a ticket,
But I allowed machine to pick it.
I think it a sin
That I didn't win.
I wonder if machine would rig it....

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Grover Deaver drove his diesel down to Dover--
Down to Dover in the state of Delaware.
I told Grover that his rig was overloaded,
But Grover Deaver said he didn't care....

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Did Dig and Dig

The more the news would dig and dig
What Republicans did was rig, rig, rig;
Things conceal;
A rigged deal;
Until it finally had become big, big, big.

Jim Horn...

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This old sea-rig is swamped and don't float
I TOLD you we'd need a bigger boat!
Now you are HIS prize
Sure ain't no surprise
That you're fish-food, you hard-headed goat!

"Jaws" - 1975...

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Too much tension on a wire
Will cause it to snap,
Too much tension in the brain
Makes for mean collapses,
Be sure to rig with a swag
And protect your synapses.

written October 2, 2021...

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Country


Called American folk,
country music’s genre
caters to tough big-rig 
cross-country truck drivers, 
cowboy wannabees and 
crooners; the blue-collar
corners of the country.


(Pleiades)...

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Written February 3, 2016


Hello World
Return takes flight
Past and present black and white
Surely losing all my sight
Numbers dancing in bright light
Calculating bits and bytes 
Slowly painting left to rig...

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Rig, 
up-draped, 
driven eerily… 

Riveted, 
clouds hold, 
ashen orb staring…
Ghostly galleon gallivants 

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(7/7/21: Picture 1 of picture this contest hosted by Joseph May)...

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A truck driver passes through
a hole in the sky

His rig self inclusive,
his load staying dry

Eighteen wheels of redemption,
the manifest signed

Delivery as promised
—his docking sublime

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)...

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A couple got married in the Winter Wonderland
For the reception they hired a mariachi band
They danced a Spanish jig,
Then left in a borrowed rig
Stiffing the poor caterer because the food was bland.

written December 23, 2021...

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There was a guy named Jake , from Atlanta
 In the Winter season he would play Santa
                    But he left that gig
                     To buy a big rig
     Next he wed a sweet lady named Anna







Alexis Y.
12/18/19...

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Can’t believe these eyes
And what they see
As only blackouts survive
Driving my rig into the northern Alabama night
A twisting hand reaching out of the demon skies
And ripping out the heart 
And giving back ruined lives 
(I know, I was there)...

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Listen to poem:

Breaking News 
David J Walker

Fliberty flimm flamm 
Giberty gib 
Skiberty skib scab 
Floperty flib 
Zippity do dah 
Pigerty pigg 
Rigerty wash rag
Oily rig
And that’s why 
You will die
Unless you 
Giberty jig 
More as details become available...

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There is a monkey
who is very funky.
He dances all day long
to a long song,
and a big wig
that can zag and zig.
Once he even danced with a big pig
with a rig!
When the day is over, he goes to bed
with a mug on his head.


Aunika Alch
Age 11

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I have a great need for help
I overran the bath again last night 
While I was sleeping.
I'm so afraid my parents are 
going to tell me I have to move 
to Assisted Living.
Can you tell me how,
Please tell me how
To rig a float to sound an alarm 
when the water reaches it....

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With all the time I spend on rhyme
    in vain pursuit of beauty
  I neglect to help my fellow man
    and fail my forsworn duty

  So this vow I make right now
    Do not think I take it lightly ~
  to rig up my toilet to fertilize my lawn
    and flush it day and nightly...

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My butt is just so damn big
10 Irish men could do a jig
5 truckers could park their rig
16 Miners could plan a dig
9 drummers could perform a gig
2 Elephants could take a swig
22 college kids could do their trig
If only I’d eat less like a pig!

*For Susan's self exaggeration contest :)...

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A tire swing
A water hole
A hound named Blue

A summer day
Throw off the shirt
Kick off each shoe

I am eight
The perfect age
To rig up my own tire swing

But Uncle Pete 
Came down to help
And here I be

A grateful boy
Swinging away in the sun
Nothing ever again has been this kind of fun!...

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At the apex of the hellstorm
Came Salvation in maidenform
Cold silence emanating from her lips
Her method of talk strapped around her hips
A tie-down, two-holster, two-gun rig
That legend called th— “The Apocalypse.”
The masses interrupted in a whisper
Again the masses whispered
“The Apocalypse.”...

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i ordered at the bar in archbishop's rig

two pork sausages
baked beans
strawberry bear fruit snack
orange juice
meat free burger
r white's raspberry lemonade
bangers and mash
pepsi 
corn wheels 
hotdog 
peppercorn sauce
one wobbly sausage sandwich

on returning to my table
i overheard the barman 
'a fool he was, a fool he'll always be'.
  
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starkness invading, picture windows view
the wake of an invisible house through
the maze of forest oaks becoming blue.
seizure of sure Winter eyes, long night’s coup.

of red foxes, no sightings but a twig
snapping, turns chilly heads, as moonlight wigs
out at the littered floor, nocturnal rig —
cacophony of coyotes, the dig.

                          11/27/2020...

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