They just want your money.
Just want your wealth.
Meagre or major they’ll take it all else.
Post sale and the manner changes in tone.
Commission awarded - it’s time to go home.
They’ll try to convince you that you need it to live!
They’ll try to persuade you that you’re doing the right thing.
But they just want your money. They’d take it and take it all. Smiles and so jolly until the deal ends it’s call.
They just want your money. They don’t care how hard it came by. They just want your money and hope you’ll be swooned by their guile.
Hairy spiders do not grill
steaks on consecutive Tuesdays
due to alternate-side-residency-
restrictions in bushes on parkways
Nevertheless, if seeking opportunities
to slake cracked-throat-thirst
Welcome to the Wetlands
where founts of poetry burst
The sign on the barn door
Says 'Not a Good Neigh-bor'
I speak, of course,
of a dam ~ hoarse
______________________
a 'dam' is a female parent
horse, (of course)
sometimes it gets really damp
in our minds
our thoughts shivering
under the wet blankets
of devastatingly languid
reality.
Since this is my dominion
you can keep your opinion
on the contents in here
Shut Up Grab a beer
"My kitten is black and she loves the snow,
and when morning ends the night,
she jumps out of the shadows to show
her blackness on all the snow-white.
Because no one can see her lately,
not since last Hallowe'en,
when she walked on our fence sedately
and the moon lit up the scene.
Nobody sees her when she's napping
and then they step right on her tail,
so she tore up some Christmas wrapping
and now my kitten is for sale...
To anyone who has a well-lit place,
who's not too heavy on their feet;
sometimes it's hard to see her face
but she is really very sweet."
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