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Shrimpers Poems - Poems about Shrimpers


Dreams of Zydeco
...I've been up a bit and down a bit and hung around in river towns, when glory days and gamblin' boats were beauty to behold; long and sleek with shapely curves and ripe just like a lady in the bl......

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Categories: shrimpers, history, me, women, time,
Form: Epic
Premium Member My Father Gone These Forty Years
...My father gone these forty years, my mother gone twenty, I remember... the acrid smell of tobacco on my mother’s rough fingers, as she sat, silently, in a predawn Texas coastal town, my head in h......

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Categories: shrimpers, angst, childhood, depression, family,
Form: Narrative




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