Lightning, split slight stressors?
Roll, scissors, as you slide.
Questioners and confessors?
Xiphoid, clench. Trench, tide.
Vast and valid, vipers?
Onyx castle, blocks green.
Flippers, flickers, slick stripers.
Stone sabbath subterrene.
Quahog, quill, quincurion.
Quest quixotic quell.
Dark fire, drape the deadly dawn.
Wishing well, cell, gel.
Occultation, oculus.
Occipital bridge.
Holluschickie, thumb callus.
Rift riddle red ridge.
Oblivescent, oblocute.
Deny and forget.
Ladder, down the fiery chute!
Subtlety, snakebit!
Obtenebrous, oil, obtest.
Shadow, grip and squeeze.
Witness called? Will we protest?
Mad maze mysteries.
Obvolvent, ocarina?
As solvents chambers be.
Disabuse, Proserpina?
Why, good sir, that is me.
Halcyon heart, hatchet hold.
Digging for dead gold.
Luminescence? Leopold?
Mycelium, mold...
Been months since I've been fishin', underneath the starry skies,
Been months since I've been fishin', underneath the starry skies,
Next week I'll go for stripers, with me I'll bring some pie.
I fish into the ocean, through all the crashing waves,
I fish into the ocean, through all the crashing waves,
I'm thinking about the bait I'll use, that I'll pull out of the bay
I make up my own tackle, simple fish finding rigs,
I make up my own tackle, simple fish finding rigs,
Couple with some healthy clams, I'll make my way to Brig'.
The foxes look to seal my bait, I'm on the watch for them,
The foxes look to seal my bait, I'm on the watch for them,
It's dark and cold all about, many weakfish fill their den.
Far away back at my home, my family barely sleeps,
Far away back at my home, my family barely sleeps,
My safety they do pray for, and filet dinners for the keeps.
Most nights it's just sharks and skates, or seaweed from the drift,
Most nights it's just sharks and skates, or seaweed from the drift,
My truck facing the ocean front, my line across the sandbar cliff.
2018
I have experience as burlesque hyper
Like good policeman Chippendale stripers
A smile on my face
Bare in public place
In church Sundays… mama changed my diapers!
For and in honor of Miranda Lambert
And contest: Burlesque Boutique
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