Donald Mark and James Francis
...MARILYN HOLDING ON TO
MEMORIES THROUGH ASHES
REMEMERING THE LOST DONATE
BONE MARROW SHORE CLAIR MICHIGAN
MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU PLEASE
STOP THREATENING MY LIFE
I CAN'T IMAGINE AFTER ALL ...
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Categories:
vig, allah,
Form: Lento
The Same Damn Thing
...It was easy to admire such a pleasant mirage,
Her tasteful arrangement of complimentary tones,
With forms chasing functions on comfortable fabric,
To be smoothed with businesslike fingers
In tota...
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Categories:
vig, allegory, relationship,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Broken Heart
...broken hearted yet again
Got left yet again for another women
It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't
The same women he left me for
Three years ago.
Broken hearted he told me it would be forever
A...
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Categories:
vig, 12th grade, boyfriend,
Form: Rhyme
United State of Denial
...
El Presidente don’t Tennessee
nothing bad coming,
tho’ the global orbitals
saw viral things very differently
Happy talk tongue taters
do eerily
Idaho ear mash liquor please
Dela...
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Categories:
vig, america, death, leadership, sick,
Form: Elegy
Tribute To the Taxman
...
Mister Government Taxman,
IRe See
you’re reaching into the citizens’
pockets again
Mister Caesar Palace Chamberlain,
your adept eyes
are deeply searching
...
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Categories:
vig, corruption, fun, money, word
Form: Ode
This For That
...
If you don’t speak pig Latin,
that’s all muddy okay
Ignorant bliss slop chatting,
this be the swine way
Quid pro quo
is a pig tell only
when you Latin show
need to know know
T...
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Categories:
vig, fun, humorous, political, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Boo Land
...
In Boo Land ...
Every gagged mouth is covered
by a grave reeker hand
Raven black-cloaked, vomit foul specter
maniacally sob laughing
Someone’s been tilting the tomb bottles again,
...
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Categories:
vig, dark, fear, scary, violence,
Form: Verse
Crooked As They Come
...
Total cop out ... criminal eyes
don’t ever confess
Grifter smiles will make a mark frown,
put smirks on politricking class clowns
Public trust,
it only grows less
Oh, from the top...
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Categories:
vig, political, slam, truth, word
Form: Rhyme
All In the Family
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Daughter crime
hooking up with felon Father time
Both got incestuous, crooked desires in mind
Two thieves in a thug hug,
secrecy intertwine conspiracy vine bind
Mother brood
raisi...
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Categories:
vig, allegory, family, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Poor Stewards
...
Cardboard box compassion,
canned love with a cadaver expiration date
Sub-contract the morgue delivery,
charge a mob fee that’s double the going vig rate
Profit from scapegoating the po...
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Categories:
vig, discrimination, poverty, society, truth,
Form: Narrative
One Out of Six
...
Who among you is brave enough
(or dumb enough)
to take the challenge
Bet your life to beat the odds ...
One out of six
Load the chamber with one bullet,
spin the cylinder, ...
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Categories:
vig, change, dark, imagery, perspective,
Form: Epic
Lackey
...
You consider yourself a good, loyal foot soldier,
always doing what the big boss tells you to do
You're good at taking orders,
you're even better at following through
If there's a job that n...
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Categories:
vig, parody, perspective, truth,
Form: Verse
I Don'T Want Him
...I DON’T WANT HIM
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I’m Pontius Pilate and here’s something I need to share
As of this moment I wash my hands of the entire affair
You’re saying this guy’s a heretic meddlin...
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Categories:
vig, betrayal, bible, corruption, evil,
Form: Rhyme
The Rain Worshipper
...“i’m only happy when it rains,”
moans shirley manson when she’s backed by
butch vig & an orchestra of overdubbed
distorted guitars enhanced by sythensizers
a la trent reznor
the genius who is cr...
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Categories:
vig, liferain, hair, rain, sun,
Form: Free verse