Spit
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A bullseye again!
Can't miss.
Have practiced since I was ten.
Contrary to what people may say,
I have a talent.
And plan to keep it that way.
The Olympics are c...
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Categories:
spittoons, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Showdown
...'Twas an ominous moment when rode into town
To its marshal defy and outdraw and gun down
A notorious, murderous varmint named Slade
Who had widows and orphans throughout the west made.
The ...
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Categories:
spittoons, adventure, history, humor, parody,
Form: Quatrain
Spaghetti Western
...the door swings open
many personalities
this kitchen i'm in
gunfighters spittoons
the prepped dolls all buttered up
frigid air humming...
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Categories:
spittoons, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Ah Vegas
...Ah Vegas
You call me now
In ways no longer reserved
For asylum jingles or perverse tours of duty
Those missions have been won
Decorated in myth
Perpetuated by views and cues
As wartorn players...
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Categories:
spittoons, celebration, crazy, desire, evil,
Form: Free verse
The Wild West
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If it’s possible to close my eyes
Then by clicking my heels
I could go back in time anywhere
The Wild West, that’s my deal
Back in time to the gun slinging days
A big iron on my hip...
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Categories:
spittoons, cowboy-western, time,
Form: Quatrain
Of Spirits, Saints and Spittoons
...ON SPIRITS, SAINTS AND SPITTOONS
If you want to love me but find yourself unable
If that is buried deep within you about me
First of all don’t put a setting for me at the table
And for Christ’s...
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Categories:
spittoons, angstme, love, me,
Form: Quintain (English)
Beware the Poet
...If you draw your sword so sharp
To skewer me on a night so dark
Stop and ponder what might befall
If my words you chance to spall
A bouquet of thorns, for you I’ll sow it
Take warning fair, bewa...
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Categories:
spittoons,
Form: I do not know?