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For you,
a special offer!
Rare! Unreal! Exclusive!
All your day-dreams
you could see fulfilled.
You'll never get a better deal.
A “once a life-time”
opportunity.
Invest in character,
in...
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I'll go with ice
and maybe death
will come to offer me
a frosty rest.
I know I'll feel no pain,
as all my limbs grow numb.
I'll sleep beneath
a comforter of snow.
The body's wise.
First...
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Not just a game
(a test of patience,
skill,
a chance for us
to scratch our heads
and rap our fingers)
It was fun.
Oh what a thrill,
surprised and satisfied,
to hear that snap.
No...
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Those kids
who won the race or
counting prize
with blocks built walls
the higher to knock down.
But I,
with cast off pieces,
could devise split-level homes
to fill a sprawling town.
No...
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Before my birth
words showered down on me.
Before I spoke
I understood.
I tried. I called. I named.
I chatted thoughtlessly
engulfed in rapid discourse,
surging pride.
Before I read
I...
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When I consider
how our income's spent
as aimlessly
we wander far and wide,
or find receipts and bills
you tried to hide from me,
I wonder where our money went.
Good reasons for each...
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I've not been one
to tell you how to drive.
It's your car, your gas.
I'm here for the ride.
Right now,
it's up to you
when we arrive.
But this is what I'm seeing
from my side.
When fearing...
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That brilliant paradox
on Keats' Urn would seem
the pinnacle of art.
But truth is rarely beautiful
I've learned
and beauty's seldom truthful,
ask my heart.
In some way
every simile is true,...
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I went into the staff room
on my break.
I opened up the 'fridge and
got inside.
The door slammed shut.
That made the bottles shake.
Good sign at least,
the light stayed on.
I tried but...
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You tutored me.
Can still recite by rote
the who and whom begats.
On details drilled I mastered cues
to quote the anecdote
and when to laugh or sigh
'mid tales distilled
of rogues revealed,...
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