Short Shell Out Poems

The feature this month is swimwear,
An answer to many a prayer:
Men shell out good loot
To eye a swimsuit,
Preferring the babe was all bare....

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Just off Ohio, following the wind,
Past the China-man restaurant
Where fools shell out
After cooking their own food,
There’s a place,
A place that waste
Three thousand square-feet
Of windy Chicago,
A place Mexico would not
Call compañero de armas.
In my world
Poverty is impetus
That chiseled man.
It is hard
To stomach Chilangos
With second-rated 
Refried bean and totopos....

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Here I am
Grounded on earth
And, my fate
Hangs in the stars

My future 
Is predicted by people
Who are unsure
Of their own fate

For them,
It is profitable business—
They have absolutely
Nothing at stake

All they have to do 
Is to play with my anxiety
And, I am sure 
To shell out nickels

The astrologers 
Tell you, 
“What the stars foretell”
Or, so they say!...

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   Caitlin Clark this, Caitlin Clark that
     your name is magic, you're the Cat in the Hat

   You’ve got folks so mesmerized
     they don’t see you’re undersized

   In a tizzy, fans shell out their dough
     Don’t they know you’re skinny and slow 

   Over you the media's ablaze
     all they print's effusive praise

   Yet not a word about this corker
     ~ your new pro team is mediocre
...

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