Category: Poems
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Tribute to a Jukebox Giant
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In The Land of Shag Lived Fat Harold, The Jukebox Giant. He called himself “Fat” For a name like that Was easy to remember. Giants choose their names Not to…
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#NewSouth Sunrise
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Take It Down, Take It Down I’m headed to C0lumbia, South Carolina, hottest city on Earth in the summer, to see what happens next. Are the lawmakers of the S.C.…
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May I have This Dance?
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If you’re in love, love to dance, or you’re alone, looking for a partner; if fifty years ago, you married your high school sweetheart and haven’t danced since senior prom.…
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Horizontal Desire
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“Dancing is a vertical expression of horizontal desire,” said Robert Frost, maybe America’s most famous poet. The first time I heard that line quoted I wondered who said it first.…
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Ride the Knife
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Ride the knife is lesson one on the hustle. Then beware the blade. How long you ride is relevant. You slip and slide the longer you ride and cut yourself…
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President’s Day Pussy
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Poem for Candidates To aspire and arrive to lead a nation is an honorable ambition impossible to attain for a pussy. We bestow the office on little men who sit…
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Absent Valentine
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Dearest absent Valentine, What’s in your heart when love is out of town? Depends how long it lasts, given love’s condition leaving. One heart stays, the other goes; in…
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So Rob A Bank
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The Earth is traveling around the sun 61,000 miles an hour. That is so fast no bullet on Earth could catch us. We could get away with anything. The…
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Driving, Mostly Riding, With Ross
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TO TAMPA AND BACK My younger son Ross is six feet, six inches tall, has hair three feet long, a beard that near reaches his chest, and blue eyes. Some…