Zippo Poems - Poems about Zippo

... November 21, 1963 He took the harmonica from the bib pocket of his overalls blew thru left to right, low to hig......

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...Following the devastating war between the big nosed people and the large eared folks, reparations and reconstruction were sorely needed. Both sides poured billions of dollars into each other to......

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...Leaning On a Stone I was afraid of gaining weight, so I kept on puffing my cigarettes. Filling my lungs, holding that drag as long as I could. I liked that feeling deep in my chest. When I breathe......

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...Pens, and pen knives, minor gadgets and gizmos, chopsticks old zippo lighters, motheaten books that crumble an old-fashioned wisdom into the mush of a quaint twaddle, words to muddle over on ......

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...Where have the matchstick men and women gone, they used to walk home from the smoky factories just to light up? Where has the Pork Pie hat flown to? Even the birds chirrup less sweetly, Is it be......

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...I have been technically dead and technically alive. Escape clause, minor glitch in my truth-machine, but a kind of life does occasionally permeate my real life. I like the click and clunk of......

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...A black powder 1868 colt revolver. Dad’s rusty Buck knife. A few old Zippo lighters. Ivory figurines haggled over with an illicit trader in Shanghai, same for a two hundred year old silk rug n......

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...Over powered and sat upon by he who was not my father. The zippo lighter not my friend as he would burn my fingers. Autism, made the pain I felt, so much, so much sharper. The buckles of th......

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...Drew the short straw, I always do. Got the 2am stag, out there in the cold Freezing my rocks, cold through my socks, Dare I have a ***, no one will see, Just about to flick me Zippo, A voice rea......

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...[Youtube clip attached as the source of my ‘copper through your letter box line... and because I just love the song!] Don’t slap a copper with a kipper Don’t catch your todger in your zipper Do......

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...My uncle took me fishing. He’d smoke his favorite briar Stuffing the cherry blend in with stubby Welsh fingers more suitable for digging coal, Than compacting mulched tobacco leaves. A line ta......

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...Fishing with Dynamite Boom! goes the dynamite as we fish for fish No line, net or hook needed Just a few sticks of dynamite and a Zippo Light the stick and toss it in Wait a few seconds and Boom......

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...Seeing the name on a gravestone grey Wishing you had more positive things to say The wind throws you around like a prized fighter Rambling off quotes from your favourite writer Always a cliffhan......

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...Taking notice under bridge Spying on waterway flow Peeking ahead below Beholding what zippo The old sod so......

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...Soldiers sent to Vietnam Were oftentimes equipped With Zippo lighters they’d engraved And in their pockets slipped. The sayings varied. Some were fun, Irreverent or wise. Each reflected feeli......

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