The ballerina with her coquetry
and prince with yawning tights his legs stump me.
Her twirl a-spin with graceful poise so long.
The twaddle of his movements poor ping-pong.
Unhandsome chin and rabbit ears so dull
But Alice charms before the queen of bull.
Her ruffles white, she curtsies with a kiss
the redness of a playing card’s abyss.
A timed waste for the prince - he scorns his watch.
His buffoonish pants made of trips and starch.
The queen, she’s not amused — “Off with their heads!”
“I shall have rabbit stew and corset seeds”
The ballerina begs with lashes long
The queen so flatly states her wish “S’long!”
Just then a storm reshuffles deck - a win.
The queen’s been tossed - the duo rides their Schwinn.
To find a finer ballet stage just in
The precise time for girls and rabbit-spin.
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With dodgy rhymes
I will not endore your relationship
with the Harlot Hashi, she wishes
to be will some else
and desires not to be with you
her mind is conditioned
to use you, that you have been spoken as ugly
and unhandsome, some would say you should be glad someone remotely cute would smile at you
much less be interested in being with you.
we extract the shame of your foolishness to think
such things so. she might soil the earth, by allowing
someone else to make her pregnant, and than marry you as the joke
were you pay her way thru life as the fool
she made you into being. we've used you as an example to teach our people against the usage of
foolish women, that foolish men make foolish women wise
and there wisedon then allows them to teach the ways of the whore
to people she wishes to be against you.
Beneath the unhandsome dawn
The sun and the moon isolated themselves
As I gaze up, lost.
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